We’re only happy when you’re happy If you’re not delighted with your purchase or our service, or find the same product elsewhere for less, please tell us so that we can put it right. You can always trust LakelandI first became aware that pressure cookers were getting cool when we were out for the day with one of my daughter's more sophisticated nine-year-old friends. At lunchtime she produced a Tupperware box containing brown-rice cucumber sushi that she had made herself. 'Dad did the rice in the pressure cooker. The rest was easy.' Pressure cookers and sushi are not two things I'd ever have put together. Like many, I had bad associations with these time-saving devices. In the 1970s they were hissing, juddering, exploding monsters. Everything that emerged seemed brownish and drab. The only occasions I imagined a pressure cooker – which uses steam-generated pressure to raise cooking temperatures – might be useful would be for speedy bean cassoulets and rib-sticking winter stews.

How wrong I was. Far from being cold-weather gadgets, pressure cookers are actually most popular in hot climates such as South America and the Caribbean, where they are appreciated for consuming very little fuel and keeping kitchens cooler (because cooking times are shorter). While they are indeed great for hearty casseroles and pulses, they are also a marvellously easy way to cook everything from eggs en cocotte to cheesecake, from chicken to glazed carrots. tupperware sushi maker australiaI learnt all this, and much more, from Catherine Phipps, the author of the wonderful new The Pressure Cooker Cookbook (Ebury, £18.99). jogos de sushi zumaThis is the best recipe collection devoted to a single cooking tool since Barbara Kafka's Microwave Gourmet in the 1980s. sushi online bestellen oberhausen

It persuaded me – a pressure-cooker sceptic – to buy a 6.5-litre WMF model (£124.94 from Amazon). Though it does sometimes make a noise like Thomas the Tank engine in pain, I have no regrets. Phipps herself is fairly new to it. Four years ago she had a Damascene conversion when her sister-in-law from Brazil pressure-cooked a 'delicious meal of black beans with sausages' in just half an hour. Phipps found this 'miraculous' and promptly bought her own cooker.jiro dreams of sushi cuevana Her appreciation of pressure-cooked meals deepened once she was cooking for 'two noisy children'. sushi grade tuna jacksonville flPhipps was no longer in a position to enjoy 'the meditative effects of risotto-making'. sushi online bestellen halle saale

But she found the pressure-cooked risotto, ready in five minutes with no stirring, was every bit as good. 'And if I want to spend some time at the stove, wooden spoon in hand, well there's always béchamel sauce.' Pressure-cooked pasta – Phipps' recipes include pasta with chard and veal meatballs – was still more 'life-changing'. I can second this. Instead of boiling multiple kettles to fill a huge pan of water while making a separate sauce, you simply put everything, pasta, sauce ingredients and water, in the pressure cooker and cook for six minutes. sushi making kit edmontonIt emerges al dente and, if anything, the flavours are deeper, because the pasta absorbs more of the sauce. It wouldn't work for spaghetti carbonara, but for hearty bowls of penne or fusilli it makes complete sense. The dish that cemented my family's conversion was Chinese spare ribs. Phipps used to order ribs in a Chinese restaurant where the chef told her they took seven hours.

She replicated them in the pressure cooker in 30 minutes. You'd never know it. Soy and star anise seem to penetrate every bit of the meltingly tender meat. The only proviso is that the pressure works so well that the bones themselves go soft – a tiny bit unsettling until you get used to it. Enter your postcode to check we deliver in your area. Alcohol promotions available to online customers serviced from our Scottish stores may differ from those shown when browsing our site. Please log in to see the full range of promotions available to you.To create a universe filled with everyday magic, we use a small jar of cookies… We use cookies to give you a positive experience of the website and for statistical purposes. Read more about our Cookie use.Which Plastics Are Safe To Put in the Microwave? With all of the warnings about the dangers of plastics in the microwave, along with the many plastics available today, it's no wonder consumers would be confused about what to and what not to zap in the kitchen.

The easiest way to figure out if a plastic container is safe for the microwave is to look for the Microwave Safe symbol. This stamp of approval, which includes three wavy lines to symbolize radiation, basically says that the container can withstand the heat of the microwave without melting or releasing harmful amounts of chemicals. Microwave-safe containers go through stringent FDA testing to ensure that, at temperatures reached in the microwave oven, the amount of chemicals that leach out of the plastic is no more than 100 to 1,000 times less than the amount shown to harm lab animals. Unlabeled plastic containers aren't necessarily unsafe for the microwave. But the lack of label just means that these plastics haven't gone through the battery of tests required to ensure microwave safety. Because there's no way to tell if these containers can hold up to microwave heat, it's best not to use them in the microwave. And while some containers are labeled with plastic type, such as PET (polyethylene terephthalate), this doesn't give you enough information to determine if it's microwave-safe.

For example, some PET containers are safe for the microwave while others are not. Below is a list of tips from The Harvard Medical School to guide you in using plastics in the microwave: Most take-out containers (like the ones used to carry home your favorite Chinese meal), water bottles, and plastic tubs made to hold butter, cream cheese and yogurt are not microwave safe. Microwaveable take-out containers designed for one-time use should not be re-microwaved. Plastic storage bags (except those labeled as Microwave Safe) and grocery bags are not recommended for the microwave. When using plastic wrap to cover a food dish, make sure it's not touching the food. How Environmentally Friendly are Plastics? Can Plastic Bottles Make You Sick? How Does a Microwave Oven Work?Email it to Life's Little Mysteries and we'll try to answer it. Due to the volume of questions, we unfortunately can't reply individually, but we will publish answers to the most intriguing questions, so check back soon.