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All-purpose kettle for stews, roasting and steaming. Fully submersible with Control Masterheat control removed. Heavy cast aluminum body with non-stick surface inside and out. Lift-and-drain basket for steaming. Cast aluminum base with non-stick surface inside and out. Glass cover, metal basket with handle. Removable heat control. 1300 watts
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- All-purpose kettle for stews, roasting and steaming.- Fully submersible with Control Masterheat control removed.
- Heavy cast aluminum body with non-stick surface inside and out.
- Lift-and-drain basket for steaming.
- 9.25x9.50x11.75 weight 5.91
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By K. malcolm
I was wanting a good fryer for a while now. I wanted a multi-tasker and not just a fryer. I read alot of the reviews posted on here before buying. Some of the ones with lower star ratings had me conserned but there were far more 4 and 5 stars than anything. I did end up ordering one.
I used it for the first time yesterday and it made the BEST homemade fried chicken strips. I marinated the chicken in buttermilk for about 4 hours and then coated them in a penko crumb mixture with spices and parmasean cheese. The chicken didnt take long to cook and came out crispy and golden. Just keep an eye on whatever you are frying. Once its the golden brown color, take it out. The instruction booklet has frying times for certain foods. The chicken says 13 minutes but I think thats just bone in whole whole pieces. I found that out when I burnt the first few pieces. The strips only took about 3-4 minutes with cooking 5 strips at a time. What I loved is the chicken was not greasy at all.
I was so happy with the way it turned out. It is very easy to clean.
Today I used the cooker to make spegetti sauce with macaroni noodles. It cooked great.
The cooker is bigger than what the picture gives justice for.
Great product and well worth the money.
By Friend (Wisconsin)
After a frustrating experience using this cooker last night, I came to amazon looking looking for a replacement and now feel compelled to write a review.
I wanted to get a fryer to use for light and infrequent kitchen deep frying. This unit seemed like a good deal since it also doubles as slow cooker so I took a chance. The first (and last) frying event did not go well. I tried to fry some breaded vegetables but the cooker could not keep up. In other words, I'd add like 3 items to the pot and the cooker could not bring the temp. of the oil back up. Well, that's ok, I've still got a slow cooker right?
Wrong. I tried to slow cook some beans last night...this thing can not maintain a simmer. Here's the deal, the thing is made of aluminum...just a terrible material to use for a slow cooker. Aluminum is an extremely responsive conductor but does not store heat so you are at the mercy of the cooker's heating element cycle; your cooker is always too hot or too cold to maintain a basic simmer.
You set it at 200 and you get boiling so you turn the temp. down the tiniest amount possible and you get nothing (because the element is now off. But just leave that temp. alone and wait a minute or two, that's right! it'll start boiling again when the element cycles back (for 20 seconds or so), then back to nothing. It will not simmer, only boil intermittently.
So for all this things touted uses, you get a warming device that will boil your food for 20 seconds every 2 minutes and something that will boil water rather quickly. I recommend passing.
By L. Mrozinski (Sacramento, CA)
I wish I'd discovered this item years ago. So far I've steamed, boiled and fried with great success. Most impressive is the speed at which it boils water. I make a lot of Rachael Ray 30 minute meals and I'd say I always end up going over the 30 minutes just getting the water boiled and pasta/potatoes cooked when her recipes call for those ingredients. This little cooker boiled my water in no time, and larger quantity than I normally use. Steaming was a breeze. Wish I'd had this when I was making baby food for my son, and really wish I'd had it when my husband and I took a six-week trip across the country. Would have been an indispensable addition to our two-burner "stove" in the tiny condo we stayed in. I'm definitely going to be giving these as gifts in the future as I think they're a must-have for any kitchen.
By Michael I. Gorchov
This unit is similar to the one I have (old style 06000), so I have included my review here as well.
I bought one at Walmart last year. I use it pretty often, but mostly for making popcorn. Turn temp to 350, put a couple-three tablespoons of peanut oil in the bottom, and then when the oil heats up throw in 1/3 to 1/2 cup of popcorn. Put the cover on and keep the pot moving while the corn pops. When the corn has just about stopped popping, turn the heat off and pour the popcorn into a bowl. Butter, salt and eat. YUM!
I've deep-fried scallops in it, steamed vegetables, cooked rice, made soup and even baked potatoes. The thing works great! I wasn't going to write a review until I saw Alton Brown talk some trash about it on Good Eats. I got pretty defensive about my humble Presto cooker! He was doing a silly episode about "man food" like corn dogs and thin, square hamburgers. Well, when Mr. Brown was explaining how to fry the corn dogs he said (while holding a Presto mutlti-cooker) that a pot with an heating element on the outside of the bottom wasn't a good idea because first the element had to heat the pot and then it had to heat up the oil. Too slow. After that he displayed three home-use rectangular fryers with immersion type heating elements. He said they were also better because they each had cooking baskets and break-away magnetic cords. He picked the one with the digital controls, while implying that this was somehow better than the manual rotary temp control.
I don't know if A. B. gets paid for product placement on his show, but I really thought he was being disingenuous regarding the Presto "pot." First of all, about the heating element on the bottom of the Presto cooker: During the frying demonstration, Mr. Brown had some text placed over the screen that said that if you didn't have a special electric fryer, that a pot on the stove-top would work fine. Isn't that interesting? What the heck is a pot on the stove, but just a heating element on the outside of a pot that heats up the pot and then the oil inside? That's exactly what he was criticizing the Presto kettle about. What gives? Secondly, the Presto cooker DOES TOO have a magnetic break-away electric cord to keep the unit from tipping when the cord is yanked by accident. Also, the Presto cooker DOES TOO come with a frying-steaming basket, which Brown implied it didn't have. Nya, nya, nya! See, I can be just as immature as Alton Brown!
I don't know if the rectangular fryers are really better, but I'm sure they cost a lot more. My Presto cooker was $26.85 at Walmart. I keep it in a lower cabinet - it doesn't take up much space there. I pull it out when I need it. It's inexpensive, easy to use, and simple. When we go to Maine in August, I'm allowed to take only one of my counter-top appliances. So, I just take the Presto cooker with me. Normally, I cook steel cut oats in a small bowl, sitting in water, in a slow cooker (a bain marie -sort of - found the idea here [...] I can do the same thing with the Presto cooker. And I have a pot with me on vacation that I can do so much more with.
One last thing. With my slow cooker I use a plug-in timer called a Rival Smart-Part. But it's not rated to control the wattage of the Presto multi-cooker. I found a heavy-duty programmable digital timer that I use to turn the Presto cooker off and on automatically. This device really allows me to use the Presto cooker like a slow cooker, without over-cooking stews and such when I am out of the house all day. The Presto multi-cooker is a terrific appliance! Buy one now, and don't believe everything you see on TV!
12/14/09 Update: Here is another reason to buy a Presto multi-cooker: I'm making a beef stew with red wine tonight. What a mess browning the stew beef! I have a 3 quart Wagner cast-iron chicken fryer, and this is what I used to brown the beef chuck cubes. These days the meat hasn't been aged much, and so it is very difficult to brown properly. I managed to do it in batches, but the stove-top got pretty messy by the time I was done. I put the browned meat, vegetables, and garlic into the Presto cooker ( I made sure to deglaze the chicken fryer with wine and include all the tasty bits) and continued to cook the stew. And then I could proceed to clean up the stove-top while the beef stew simmered away in a different part of the kitchen. I am very pleased not to have to clean up all that oil spatter after dinner!
By SC (CA)
This is my second one only because my daughter didn't know what to get me for Xmas so I told her to get me another one. I only use it for frying and store the grease in the pot so some has dripped down the kettle and looks crummy otherwise I would keep this one. I have had it for about 7 years and it still works. Hope the new one lasts as long.
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