Kuhn Rikon Frying Pan Pressure Cooker Duromatic Inox 2.5L/24cm. Long Handle Food Steamer. Multi Cooker with Auto Lock Lid. Stainless Steel Pot. Instant Cook Pot – 10 Year Kuhn Rikon Cookware Guarantee

This is a quality bit of kit. People are afraid of pressure cookers due to copious stories from decades ago where the kitchen was blown up and granny was catapulted onto the roof!! Times have changed and it's a great way of cooking - quick and retaining all the taste and goodies. I do wish though that all these kitchen equipment companies would provide a decent recipe book with their products - they are charging lots of money for items and not bunging in a bit of PR material too. I can't see why they don't combine decent recipes in their instruction books and at least look as though they fully back the product.UPDATE - I've been using this since received and I can say that I am still really pleased with it. I would still highly recommend it. Now that we're into Autumn / Winter, it will really earn its money with casseroles, stews etc - meat comes out incredibly tender and the taste is all secured within. It seems expensive, but I've found it well worth every penny.

Very pleased with this frying pan pressure cooker. Although mine didn't come with a recipe book the small booklet which gave the relavant info for cooking times and how to use the cooker was good although I was a bit disappointed that the booklet made no reference to the frying pan cooker. I downloaded the Kuhn Rikon recipe book but at most there were only two recipes for this cooker. The cooker has a nice large area which is good for browning meat and it is so easy to use. I have always had a pressure cooker and had bought a 6ltr (not Kuhn Rikon) before buying this one and wished I had paid the extra and bought a kuhn rikon. There is no steam escaping and the cooker is more or less silent, no weights to bother with, simple!. I managed to download the Kuhn Rikon Quick Cuisine recipe book from a website, although the recipe measurements are 'cups' which I don't find an issue. The book has over ninety pages, many recipes for this cooker and lots of info regarding the frying pan cooker.

I have been studying "Indian Cooking". Madhur Jaffrey uses a pot like this one saying it's her best. Took a while to find it and it seemed to "tick all the boxes " for a piece of equipment that I would find very helpful. Don't like lots of implements in my kitchen. So buying anything so expensive was exceptional for me. And it is expensive, but worth every penny. I have been using it a lot, cuts down on energy, time and I think hold in more flavor than conventional cooking. I also like the size.I had used pressure cookers before and indeed grew up with them. This one takes it to a new level, this generation needs to be introduced to the idea and at a better price. Great product.

I'm absolutely loving this pan! I am a very enthusiastic pressure cooking convert and I bought this one to replace my Fissler which developed a fault after a few months. I wasn't sure about the size but actually this is the most handy size and shape because it comes up to pressure very quickly compared with larger pans. It's simple design is very user friendly, no dials, buttons or switches or anything like that to set, you just put food in, close the lid and put it on the heat. The button indicator pops up when it's at pressure and there are two rings on it for low and high pressure, you just have to get the heat just right to maintain the pressure. It's very efficient requiring very little heat to maintain pressure. Everything I have cooked in it has turned out absolutely perfect! I LOVE it!

Its very well made, pretty heavy, well finished. It looks like it will last forever. Other reviews haven't explained what is different about it, so this tries to. Its different in form, in volume, and in mechanism.It is basically a 24cm saute pan with a pressure lid. It is about 7cm deep. The lid is domed so there is more clearance in the center. You can use one of those folding out steamers, for instance, and the stalk does not foul the lid. The width is one respect in which it is unique. It is very unusual in having only 2.5 liter volume.The effect of these two features is that it comes up to pressure very fast indeed. If you compare it to a 6 liter Instant Pot, by the time the IP has come up to pressure you may have finished your cooking in this.Its also much more usable for initial frying than taller narrower cookers, and far more usable than the saute function in the IP.It is plain stainless steel, as most pressure cookers are. This is much better, in a pressure cooker, than non-stick. Its one of the great advantages of the Instant Pot that its liner is plain stainless.The pressure control mechanism on this is unique. There are still some pressure cookers on the market which have the old fashioned rocking weight on a vent. Noisy and evaporates more water than the modern ones. You sometimes get two weights to adjust the pressure to different levels. More modern ones have an automatic adjustment control, where you set the pressure using a dial on the lid. Preferable. Quieter and loses less water.This one does neither. It has a small spring loaded valve in the lid, and when it comes up to pressure this rises and you can tell by the height of the device which of two pressure settings it has reached. It makes the impression of a design from 50 years ago. It works perfectly so its none the worse for that. When its reached pressure, and before you turn down the heat, it regulates the pressure by letting some steam out. But far less than the old rocker kind, and its barely audible.This is very much an advantage, because you lose less water through steam, and so can cook with less, which makes the whole thing faster.In all cases of stovetop pressure cookers you have to manually lower the heat once it reaches pressure. That is the case with this one too. You keep an eye on the valve stem and when you see the second red marker you know you are at high pressure, and should immediately lower the heat to keep at whatever pressure you want.There are three ways of releasing pressure depending on which kind of mechanism your cooker has. With the rocking weight system you just remove the weight, and steam will shoot out of the vent. With the IP you move a control and it vents. You can also run a stovetop one under a cold tap, and that will bring pressure down quite fast. In the case of this one, the weight of the pan with some liquid in this is going to be too heavy for a lot of people, but if you can handle the weight, it works.You can also simply take it off the heat and let it cool down naturally, which will take some minutes. This is where lower volume has an effect, it will cool down naturally much quicker than a 6 liter pan.With this one, with its unique pressure control system, you manually reduce pressure by pushing the valve in the lid down. Steam will then emerge with a rush around a sort of loose cap about 5cm diameter which surrounds the valve. It is best to do this pushing down with a wooden spoon or when wearing a proper oven glove. It is not scalding hot, but its not very comfortable either.Should you buy one?Its a question of priorities. You can get a 3 liter Prestige stainless for about 40.00. It is not as wide and its quite a bit higher sided. You can also get an Amazon 4 liter stainless for 30.00 at present. Also higher sided and not as wide. This one costs about 100.00 more than either. In fact its quite a bit more expensive than an Instant Pot. The main feature of it is the saute pan form factor, which makes it usable as a frying pan without using the pressure feature, and the low volume, which makes it very much faster to use under pressure than bigger ones. Fissler makes an even lower volume one, but its not so wide. It is probably less useful than this one. About the same price.If your cooking has a lot of dishes where you first saute some ingredients, then add others and some liquid, and then simmer for some time - stews of some sort, pasta sauces, risottos etc, (it makes excellent risotto) then it will be very useful. If 100 pounds matters to you, and if you have other uses for it such as buying food or warm clothes or heating your house, but you want the advantages of a small volume cooker, then no. In that case get the Amazon 4 liter or the 3 liter Prestige. They are both well reviewed, seem to be well made solid pans, and will do the job, maybe not as conveniently, but they will do it. They will save as well on fuel as this. They are a bit less versatile, but if money is a consideration they are going to be a better choice.If you want to cook more than a couple of liters at once, then this is also not for you. You want a 6 liter pan in that case. If you want something that will double as a slow cooker, and that can have the ingredients added, turn on and leave, get an Instant Pot. This (like all stovetops) should not be left to cook unsupervised.This pot is a bit of an indulgence. But it does some things better than anything else, and its a pleasure to look at and use. If you can afford it, and you want what it does, fast convenient cooking for two or three people, get it. But if you can't afford it, well, you can get 80% of what it does for 100.00 less from the ones cited above. Its a bit like the Bamix blenders. They too cost 5 times an inexpensive stick blender. But you will hand them on to your grandchildren. This is the same.