Tropicalsenior

I ducked. Did it miss me?

If you like liverwurst, you will like this. This is even better than liverwurst!

Oh no, not the chicken livers! I'm sending you a recipe for the easiest and best chicken liver pate that you will ever have.

It's a pleasure to be of help. How are the dogs taking it?

I found that my instant pot does so much that I was able to retire a whole bunch of pots permanently.

They look beautiful.

You and my grandson would get along great. In fact maybe I'd better hide it when he comes down to visit.

I have to bow to the expert and not believe what I read on the labels on the Chinese packages here. I do apologize. However, the second one I bought thinking it was a pot lifter and it works well for me as one so that's how I'm going to use it. I am amazed and how sturdy they are for as flimsy as they look. They're great little products.

OK, care to explain that spring?

With the ceramic dish it wouldn't be so annoyingly messy.

That initial blast of steam can be rather overwhelming but you can release it gradually. Just keep gently bumping the valve open with a long-handled spoon. Then when you open it, it won't come out so wildly. It doesn't make you a wimp. It just means that you respect the power that you're dealing with. And that makes you smart!

My Father had this exact knife that he used to clean and trim his horses hooves.

I guess you're right. I wish I had kept the package, they called it a pot lifter and these are exactly like mine. I didn't think it would expand enough to lift a very big plate but I just tried it and it does.

I would like to know more about your rice pudding. I love rice pudding but I haven't had the nerve to try it yet in the instant pot. Do you have a recipe that you would share?

I have a steam button on mine plus 14 other buttons and except for the saute I rarely use any of them. With the manual button you can do anything you want to. And thanks to everyone here I understand my pressure cooker and the times and settings that I need for just about everything. Anytime that you put water and and the things that you want to cook in a steam rack, it will do exactly the same function by just using manual. On most of my preset functions the time is automatically set and fixed. I like to have more control over the time and going with the manual button lets me do that.

Everyone has come so close and it would work well for all the purposes., except for the olive jar. It was marketed as a pot lifter, which is exactly how I used it yesterday when I made steamed rice in the instant pot. Here is a picture. Please disregard the rubber band because I couldn't take a picture with one hand and hold the pot lifter closed. .

It would work well for that but that wasn't its intended purpose.

Again, close, but no. A little too big for that it is 9 in. long. A friend of mine had one for the olive jar. It didn't work too well. It worked great for pickles but the olives kept getting away.

OMG! I think I'm in love. Just reading the name of This makes me know that I've got to have it.

Real close.

Believe it or not, while Googling for something else I found something like this plate lifter for sale. And it just about the price that I paid for it. It's right here. It is called a 'Kitchen Anti-Scald Plate Bowl Dish Pot Holder Carrier Clamp Clip Handle Protect'.

You got it! I took a picture of it in action But I think probably this is how I will be using it. It will be great to take things out of the instant pot. Despite the way it looks, it is really very sturdy and I have held it upside down and sideways and it doesn't lose its grip. This is a picture of the last treasure that I bought yesterday. What is it?

If you tried to grab either of my cats with this, you'd draw back a bloody stump

The sounds great and I'm going to try it. Thanks for the IP directions. It only makes it easier. I've been looking for a good wire potato masher for about five years. Ever since a friend of a friend of a friend showed up and wanted to stay overnight, I've been without one. Three weeks later, when I invited her to leave, she left with some of my favorite cookbooks and the wire potato masher that I had had for about 50 years. The cookbooks I understood. They were good ones. But what does anyone need with a potato masher on vacation in Costa Rica?

Thanks for the tip. I will try that for just us, but when I'm making turkey and trimmings for twenty people, at 78 years old, I no longer have the strength nor the time coordination. So until someone complains, Ore-Ida it is.