Home | Community | Message Board


This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: OlympusMyco.com We’re Not Chasing Unicorns—We’re Building Quality (Olympus Myco Grow Bags)   North Spore Injection Grain Bag, North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
OfflineDrCobalt
Stranger
Male

Registered: 09/16/20
Posts: 13
Loc: NYC
Last seen: 1 year, 2 months
Electric Pressure Cooker settings
    #27090006 - 12/15/20 07:51 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

It seems that the general consensus is that electric pressure cookers are not advisable for sterilization of grain jars. I believe that this is mainly due to the fact that they don't really go to 15 psi. Also, they tend to be small.  Some electric pressure cookers do have specs that say they go to 15psi max, but actually operate at 10-12 psi.  Cooking experts suggest that if you have a recipe that requires you 15psi when using an electric pressure cooker, you can just increase the cook time  by 10% - 20%.

My question is can grain jars be sterilized in an electric pressure cooker if the time is just increased or is there something that 15psi can do that, say, 11psi cannot with increased heat time?


--------------------
"Some people are afraid of new ideas... I'm afraid or the old ones."
    - John Cage

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineSankhara
Trump's lost child
I'm a teapot User Gallery

Registered: 02/11/18
Posts: 546
Loc: Argentina Flag
Last seen: 5 months, 20 days
Re: Electric Pressure Cooker settings [Re: DrCobalt]
    #27090158 - 12/15/20 09:39 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Of course you can, im doing it right now. Mine reaches 10psi

I do 3 hours at high temperature for quart jars and 1.5 hours for no pour plates without a single contamination problem.

You could even sterilize at 0 psi for 18 hours. It just takes longer


--------------------
How would you rate the quality of my answer?

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineTattersail
Female User Gallery


Registered: 04/11/18
Posts: 285
Last seen: 2 years, 10 months
Re: Electric Pressure Cooker settings [Re: Sankhara]
    #27090347 - 12/15/20 11:26 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

My PC is only around 10psi and I run it for 3 hours for the pint jars I use (I can fit more in if I use pint jars rather than quart jars). If I were doung quarts I'd aim for 3.5hrs or maybe 4hrs if I thought the PC wouldn't boil dry. Maybe that's overkill, but better safe than sorry! Pasty plates I do for 45mins and haven't had a problem with that.


--------------------
LAGM2021
Trades

We may lose or we may win, but we'll never be here again

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleLCrow
Wanderer
I'm a teapot User Gallery


Registered: 12/13/20
Posts: 102
Loc: Gloucestershire Flag
Re: Electric Pressure Cooker settings [Re: Tattersail]
    #27116089 - 12/30/20 11:33 AM (4 years, 17 days ago)

Quote:

Tattersail said:
My PC is only around 10psi and I run it for 3 hours for the pint jars I use (I can fit more in if I use pint jars rather than quart jars). If I were doung quarts I'd aim for 3.5hrs or maybe 4hrs if I thought the PC wouldn't boil dry. Maybe that's overkill, but better safe than sorry! Pasty plates I do for 45mins and haven't had a problem with that.





Hi Tattersail,

I have also just got myself an electric and thanks for confirming it is possible, but I was just wondering why the increase in time for a smaller jar?

My thanks in advance!

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineSankhara
Trump's lost child
I'm a teapot User Gallery

Registered: 02/11/18
Posts: 546
Loc: Argentina Flag
Last seen: 5 months, 20 days
Re: Electric Pressure Cooker settings [Re: LCrow]
    #27116104 - 12/30/20 11:39 AM (4 years, 17 days ago)

A pint is half a quart.

Time increases with larger volume are ment to achieve proper sterilization


--------------------
How would you rate the quality of my answer?

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineTattersail
Female User Gallery


Registered: 04/11/18
Posts: 285
Last seen: 2 years, 10 months
Re: Electric Pressure Cooker settings [Re: LCrow]
    #27116118 - 12/30/20 11:45 AM (4 years, 17 days ago)

Quote:

LCrow said:
Quote:

Tattersail said:
My PC is only around 10psi and I run it for 3 hours for the pint jars I use (I can fit more in if I use pint jars rather than quart jars). If I were doung quarts I'd aim for 3.5hrs or maybe 4hrs if I thought the PC wouldn't boil dry. Maybe that's overkill, but better safe than sorry! Pasty plates I do for 45mins and haven't had a problem with that.





Hi Tattersail,

I have also just got myself an electric and thanks for confirming it is possible, but I was just wondering why the increase in time for a smaller jar?

My thanks in advance!




Pints (500ml ish)  I do for 3 hours, quart jars (or 1000ml in my case) I would do longer (3.5 - 4hrs but I haven't really tested that). I only ran the big jars once because they don't fit so well in my PC so I cant really say what's best for them!

The other week I only PCd pint jars for around 2.5hrs as I didn't time them properly, and they've been fine so far. It might be a bit of trial and error with your electric cooker but certainly it's possible to sterilse grains at 10psi if thats what you have.


--------------------
LAGM2021
Trades

We may lose or we may win, but we'll never be here again

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleLCrow
Wanderer
I'm a teapot User Gallery


Registered: 12/13/20
Posts: 102
Loc: Gloucestershire Flag
Re: Electric Pressure Cooker settings [Re: Tattersail]
    #27116204 - 12/30/20 12:34 PM (4 years, 17 days ago)

Quote:

Tattersail said:
Quote:

LCrow said:
Quote:

Tattersail said:
My PC is only around 10psi and I run it for 3 hours for the pint jars I use (I can fit more in if I use pint jars rather than quart jars). If I were doung quarts I'd aim for 3.5hrs or maybe 4hrs if I thought the PC wouldn't boil dry. Maybe that's overkill, but better safe than sorry! Pasty plates I do for 45mins and haven't had a problem with that.





Hi Tattersail,

I have also just got myself an electric and thanks for confirming it is possible, but I was just wondering why the increase in time for a smaller jar?

My thanks in advance!




Pints (500ml ish)  I do for 3 hours, quart jars (or 1000ml in my case) I would do longer (3.5 - 4hrs but I haven't really tested that). I only ran the big jars once because they don't fit so well in my PC so I cant really say what's best for them!

The other week I only PCd pint jars for around 2.5hrs as I didn't time them properly, and they've been fine so far. It might be a bit of trial and error with your electric cooker but certainly it's possible to sterilse grains at 10psi if thats what you have.




Ah what a fool, I though a quart was a quarter of a pint :rolleyes:
now it makes sense, thank you!

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineTattersail
Female User Gallery


Registered: 04/11/18
Posts: 285
Last seen: 2 years, 10 months
Re: Electric Pressure Cooker settings [Re: LCrow]
    #27116892 - 12/30/20 06:45 PM (4 years, 17 days ago)

No worries, I had never heard of a "quart" before finding this site! Two pints is a quart, which is a quarter of a gallon. My jars are metric but I still call them pints and quarts, they're close enough!


--------------------
LAGM2021
Trades

We may lose or we may win, but we'll never be here again

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Shop: OlympusMyco.com We’re Not Chasing Unicorns—We’re Building Quality (Olympus Myco Grow Bags)   North Spore Injection Grain Bag, North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Electric pressure cooker houshroom 2,154 3 07/22/03 04:19 PM
by Psilocybin_monkey
* Electric Pressure Cookers Redstorm 1,526 2 07/05/03 02:45 AM
by Sev
* Electric Pressure Cookers? Redstorm 2,213 3 03/18/03 02:45 PM
by Fred Garvin
* Pressure cooker settings chaosgenerator 499 2 06/09/03 08:25 PM
by Sev
* ToastMaster Pressure Cooker (please help) unproportionate 805 1 04/14/03 05:02 PM
by TheShroomHermit
* Pressure Cooker moe 930 6 05/27/03 06:35 PM
by Raedon
* Pressure Cookers absoluteZero 3,274 11 06/10/13 07:43 AM
by FrankHorrigan
* questions about pressure cooker redstar420pmb 830 2 07/30/03 12:34 AM
by Anonymous

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Shroomism, george castanza, RogerRabbit, veggie, mushboy, fahtster, LogicaL Chaos, 13shrooms, hamloaf, cronicr, Stipe-n Cap, Pastywhyte, bodhisatta, Tormato, Land Trout, A.k.a
996 topic views. 9 members, 77 guests and 20 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2025 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.024 seconds spending 0.006 seconds on 12 queries.