tcdo

Hi, folks - I’ve read egullet fora for ages but finally signed up to post. I’m in greater Boston, US. Been interested in cooking and kitchen gadgets for a long time, share the cooking at home but not 50/50, used to do a lot of cooking out of Roberto Santibañez’s Truly Mexican but ultimately realized the spice level was not going to become a household standard (and also this was a time-intensive hobby). Stews and so forth are probably my favorite cooking, but I don’t have a lot of free afternoons so I’ve used a pressure cooker for over a decade (my wife prefers using the slow cooker for that sort of thing). Good to be here!

Huh. My control valve says it’s 115kPa - see attached photo. Slightly different SKU, too. This is from an 8.5qt Vitavit (2019 model) ordered from fisslerusa.com in Jan. 2022. The control valve seems slightly askew - the front edge of the red just barely shows when I hit overpressure. I tried contacting Fissler US customer support via email about pressure back when I bought the PC but never got a reply. I figured worst case scenario the Cooks’ Illustrated intern (or staffer) who had tested the Vitaquick hadn’t read its manual carefully and ran it like I used to run my 8qt Fagor (which I had to get rid of when I couldn’t get a new gasket for it): heated to a gentle vent at 15kPa. In a year of light use it’s done a fine job. I think this week I’ll try half a pound of soaked garbanzos as recommended above in this thread. My prediction is they’ll be fully cooked in 13 minutes. (Among other things, a larger cooker takes longer to come up to pressure, so beans cooked 13 minutes at pressure in an 8.5L will cook more than in a 6L or smaller.) Fissler now sell both my control valve and a slightly different one for the 2020- models for $10 less. The SKU on the website matches my instruction booklet but not the SKU in these photos - maybe the latter is part of the control valve?