On Tuesday, October 16, 2001, at 12:04 PM, mmotyka@lsil.com wrote:
ichudov@Algebra.Com (Igor Chudov) wrote :
One thing I would like to buy is a pressure cooker.
I have found them to be of little use. Save some $, try a garage sale.
Different strokes. I use mine a fair amount. It's a Kuhn-Rikon, recent generation, lots of safety features. Cuts cooking time for some items by a factor of several--beans, for example. Thoroughly cooks things like chicken and pork while keeping them juicy. There are less expensive models from Mirro and others. Yard sale machines are likely to be the very old, 1950s-60s generation that our mothers used (or your grandmothers, for the kids here).
Another is a kind of charger that charges water with CO2, to make homemade fizzy water insteado f buying it at stores. In Russia these things were called syphons. Any ideas?
Apparently they're called siphons here too :
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