Last weekend, my mom taught my brother and I how to use a pressure cooker to cook beef stew.
My mom has taught my brother and I how to cook things before like eggs, rice, vegetables, and she even taught my brother how to cook steak before. Instead, last weekend my mom taught us how to use a pressure cooker. First, she showed us the kind of meat we used which was beef belly. Next, she showed us how to season the meat with salt, pepper, garlic, ginger, etc. After seasoning, she showed us how to operate the pressure cooker which was somewhat complicated compared to a simple rice cooker. Apparently, there is a piece of metal on the top and depending on whether it is up or down determines whether or not the pot is pressured or not. We put in the ginger, garlic, and generally the excess ingredients at the bottom as a base for the beef and then locked the lid on top. Our pressure cooker has a bunch of buttons you can press and just wait a certain amount of time. Since we were making a stew, we just pressed the meat/stew button and then we could just leave it to cook. After around an hour, we checked on the pressure cooker and the piece of metal on the lid was up which meant that the lid can’t be opened since the pot is still pressurized. We waited a bit more until the metal piece went down, but then there was still this knob on the lid that we had to turn and a lot of steam came out for a while. After the steam was gone, we took out the beef and let it rest for a while before slicing it and putting it into the stew.
Overall I learned how to use the pressure cooker and I think if I needed to I could make beef stew using it. It was easy and also kind of fun so it was an interesting experience learning how to use it.