Tower Pressure Cooker - how to use it?

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I've just been given a tower pressure cooker 2824H Family series?? Its brand new but a good few years old (iykwim!). The only thing is there are no instructions with it. I have never used a pressure cooker but remember my mam using one when I was a kid. Can anyone give me any tips or tell me where I can get the instuctions from. Thanks

www.saltoneurope.com. If you navigate through the menus to 'cookware' and find the pressure cooker there is a PDF file with instructions. It's not your model but it could have some common features being the same make. Or write to Russell Hobbs/Tower directly.

My pressure cooker is not the same make so don't know how useful this will be. But the basics are....

• Check the rubber seal around the lid, valves and moving parts are clean, free-moving and not damaged.
• Whatever you're cooking should include some liquid (at least 1/2 pint) but don't overfill beyond the 'max' line inside. Allow for things bubbling up like pulses.
• Put on the lid and lock it into position. May involve twisting the lid locked or sliding some part to 'locked' 'closed' position.
• Heat the contents until the steam valve shuts off and the pressure builds - this is the part you really need your instruction booklet for as there are varying ways of setting the pressure
• Regulate the heat so that the pressure is constant.... usually means turning it down once you get the cooker to pressure.
• When the time is up, turn off the heat, allow the contents to cool down & pressure to reduce and then unlock and remove the lid. Most won't let you remove the lid if there is still any pressure inside... don't force it if it won't open.

HTH

Thanks for replying cogito that's really useful. Can't wait to get cooking now!

Hello Tower pressure cooker instructions - I have just found a newish one at a boot sale got the box but no instuctions ::((( Box calls it "Tower speed 4 " Just treied to do some soaked dried peas and steam came out through handle - not a fault, But I put the weight on maybe too soon?? It has a little knob witha ring on the lid so instructions would be great if anyone knows where to find please or can tell me what I did wrong - apart from getting frightened and gave up - I'm a wimp thanks in advance

I've just bought a new one. They are nice to use and much safer.

I did some dinners for the baby in record time!

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I've not a had a pc for years, but the one I had in the 1980s had a valve so you could let the steam out at the end of cooking. From memory that might have been on the handle - was definitely a plastic bit, could that be it?

Is the handle black, with a orange large button and black dial?

This is the one I have and I use it by clicking lid on, line up faint line etched on lid with handle and twist top handle to the left, turn dial to the extreme right hand side, push big orange button forwards. Heat is on full when little orange pin rises up switch heat down to half and time it for required time. When time up switch off heat move pot off ring, you can let it cool down naturally, it's cool when pin drops down, turn dial to left, pull button on handle down and open pot by twisting top handle to the right and lifting lid off.

I will look for my instructions if this isn't clear. This may of course not even be the one you're after.