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fiXXXer
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Pressure Cooking on a Hot Plate?
#6301906 - 11/20/06 07:24 AM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hey everyone,
I bought an electric hot plate (like a stove burner, not a griddle or skillet), and I am wondering if it would be safe to use my pressure canner on this?
I bought it so that I can pressure cook in my room, so that my grand mother would not be suspicious as to why I am pressure cooking bird seed in my brand new pressure cooker.
What do you all think?
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Re: Pressure Cooking on a Hot Plate? [Re: fiXXXer]
#6301920 - 11/20/06 07:32 AM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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how hot does it go?
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Re: Pressure Cooking on a Hot Plate? [Re: DrB]
#6301926 - 11/20/06 07:36 AM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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If it has sufficient physical strength to hold the pressure cooker, put it on and see if it has sufficient wattage to heat it up. That's the only way to know for sure. RR
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COLDLOGIC
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Re: Pressure Cooking on a Hot Plate? [Re: RogerRabbit]
#6302013 - 11/20/06 08:37 AM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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yea make sure it wont tip over easy or nothing like that...and if it seems to be stable give it a shot! the last thing u want is it falling over at 12 psi
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fiXXXer
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Re: Pressure Cooking on a Hot Plate? [Re: COLDLOGIC]
#6302023 - 11/20/06 08:43 AM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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When I get home, I'll have to double check, but I think that the wattage was around 1330.
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Re: Pressure Cooking on a Hot Plate? [Re: fiXXXer]
#6302032 - 11/20/06 08:48 AM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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As long as it can hold it, yea. Make sure that the burner also sustains the heat. I used to use a Scientific Heatplate, which would heat all the way up to ~1000 degrees F whenever I had to use 5 PC's at once and 4 burners on the stove just werent enough. Figured that was a fire hazard and bought a cheap regular side burner and it never could keep a good heat long enough to PC even a 9QT PC.
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Re: Pressure Cooking on a Hot Plate? [Re: fiXXXer]
#6302075 - 11/20/06 09:13 AM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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Most inexpensive "hot plates" do not have the "watts" to do the trick. Unless you have a small thin PC. Even then, sustained use on high can result in a fire or shorting hazard. As heat radiates downward, off the PC & heats the hot plate up far beyond it's design capacity.
I would be very careful using one.
On the other hand, free standing restaurant grade electric burners, will do fine. Even with a big AA on it.
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Re: Pressure Cooking on a Hot Plate? [Re: agar]
#6302246 - 11/20/06 10:26 AM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
agar said: Most inexpensive "hot plates" do not have the "watts" to do the trick. Unless you have a small thin PC. Even then, sustained use on high can result in a fire or shorting hazard. As heat radiates downward, off the PC & heats the hot plate up far beyond it's design capacity.
I would be very careful using one.
On the other hand, free standing restaurant grade electric burners, will do fine. Even with a big AA on it.
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fiXXXer
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Re: Pressure Cooking on a Hot Plate? [Re: agar]
#6302271 - 11/20/06 10:36 AM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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agar said: Even then, sustained use on high can result in a fire or shorting hazard. As heat radiates downward, off the PC & heats the hot plate up far beyond it's design capacity.
Crap, I didn't think of that. Quite happy that I kept the receipt.
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Feanor
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Re: Pressure Cooking on a Hot Plate? [Re: fiXXXer]
#6302303 - 11/20/06 10:45 AM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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I got mine from Walmart, and it gets the job done!
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psilocybinocean
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Re: Pressure Cooking on a Hot Plate? [Re: fiXXXer]
#6302310 - 11/20/06 10:46 AM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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I use a cheap little one from wal-mart and it works just fine. But your best bet is to fire it up empty, bring it to temp, and see if it holds it steady for you. It takes me forever tweaking the knob to get it steady, but I can PC in my bathroom without all the questions I dont' need.
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Re: Pressure Cooking on a Hot Plate? [Re: Feanor]
#6302371 - 11/20/06 11:05 AM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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longbottom_leaf said: I got mine from Walmart, and it gets the job done!
Again, it depends on the size, capacity, thickness & type PC you have.
Drop an AA 925, 930, or 941 on it & see what happens.
An AA 941 loaded full weighs about 70 lbs.
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Blutjager
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Re: Pressure Cooking on a Hot Plate? [Re: agar]
#6303034 - 11/20/06 02:47 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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I will get a 941 one day
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Feanor
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Re: Pressure Cooking on a Hot Plate? [Re: Blutjager]
#6303078 - 11/20/06 02:56 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah, I have an 8 quart pressure cooker. It takes a while for things to get started up. I'd imagine that if I had a pc twice the size, then there would be no way that it'd work on the burner.
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psilocybinocean
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Re: Pressure Cooking on a Hot Plate? [Re: Feanor]
#6303109 - 11/20/06 03:04 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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that 941 looks like it could pressure cook an army of fucking jars...
..Or a person.
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I use an $8 hot plate from wally world under my 22qt and it does fine. Takes about 45 minutes to get up to temp and another 10 or so to get to 15 psi. Word of caution. I use it in the garage in the middle of the floor for safety. I would never attempt on a countertop. Then again, I have always been half afraid to spool up the 22qt in the house at all.
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agar
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Quote:
psilocybinocean said: that 941 looks like it could pressure cook an army of fucking jars...
..Or a person.
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