I have been thinking about buying a new pressure cooker since all of mine are ancient and I don’t trust the smaller one. I never can get a quarter of what’s on the grocery list at the local grocery store so decided to drive three towns over to Walmart yesterday. They aren’t any more stocked than our local grocery store where shelves are half bare and you get asked for one of the two milks or bread in your basket. Walmart didn’t have any pressure cookers or simple kitchen items like an apple corer or camping foods. One would think they’d sell canners at Christmas and camp foods during hunting season. They didn’t even have sliced almonds for holiday baking.
There is a pressure cooker advertised on TV, that is less expensive than most cheap ones at Walmart when they do have them. It also cooks meats and other things well, the ad made me want to order one. If you have cable or IUniverse ATT&T, you may catch that ad and watch to see if it would fit your needs, he shows how easy canning is in it and it gives 7 or 8 quarts of canned food...I believe.
Yes, since the Unionizing of Walmart... the service, products on shelf, and other issues are piling up. I only buy a few things there and not often.
There was an America’s Test Kitchen review of pressure cookers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiCUKA7dDUs
(Disclaimer: I have no experience with food preserving, except for freezing, and drying in the Excalibur.)
Apparently they make electric and stovetop pressure cookers; but in the event of serious “breakdown”, could you even use a stovetop pressure cooker on some kind of outdoor cooking system?
(Come to think of it, how do the Amish can? Don’t they only use wood-fired stoves and cooktops?)
-JT