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Pressure cookers can be quite versatile when used with a little imagination and time. First, let me say that if you are going to get into pressure cooking, get a stainless steel stove top model and be prepared for some anxiety if you've never used one. I only recommend a simple stove top model, as opposed to an electric one with bells and whistles because this advice is pitched to the lazy guy. The lazy quotient comes into play later.

Pressure cookers develop serious pressure; up to 30psi at higher altitudes. This may not sound like much when your car tire blows, but that's not blowing superheated steam into your face and gas stove fixtures. Gee, why would steam and gas be an issue? Well, it's not that, it's the blowing off of the couplings or hoses that deliver the gas, thus creating a leak that pose the issue. It's happened. If you are alert it won't be a problem. Read on for a simple recipe that can also be adapted for soups, chicken, meats, you name it.

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On the scale of all the things that need to be done when preparing food, like cleaning, chopping, roasting, etc., seasoning food with salt and pepper is low on my list of things that require effort. That said, it probably isn't surprising that I find Movers & Shakers, the self-shaking salt and pepper shakers, to be ridiculous. To operate the plastic shakers, you just have to pull the cord at the bottom of the shaker, invert over your plate and they vibrate, shaking out as much or as little seasoning as your taste buds desire. The only thing that they don't do is hold themselves over the plate, though I'm sure with a little creativity you could figure out a way to suspend them in the middle of the table. Of course, if you refill the shakers with Spepper, you'll really have reached the pinnacle of easy seasoning.

The shakers: $7.99. The cost of saving a second of actual effort? Priceless.

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