The Chefman pressure cooker reduces cook times by up to 70% percent compared to traditional cooking methods
Extra-large 8-quart capacity cooks food for the entire family
Oval shape accommodates large quantities of food
Easy to lock lid ensures safe pressure cooking
Range of preset and manual cooking controls take the guesswork out of meal prep or Holiday planning
In addition to Pressure Cook (10 presets), Slow Cook (4 presets) and Steam (4 presets), you’ll find Sear and Sauté, along with Keep Warm and Delay Start for ultimate convenience and control
Accessories Included:
Steam rack, steam basket, rice spoon, ladle, and Measuring Cup
These accessories are all dishwasher-safe, for easy cleanup
@boygenius1991 I have one that I use for making chili, ribs, soup, anything you need to braise. I don’t use it that often but when I do it comes in handy
@boygenius1991
I use mine for ribs (2 racks at a time), rice, reheating rotisserie chickens, stew, and I can do about 15 hard-boiled eggs at once. I might get this one as it bigger than the one I currently own.
@boygenius1991 Good for cooking beans and roasts in under an hour. You can check out pressured cooking times, but don’t be fooled – those times do not count coming up to and down from pressurizing. But I can still do a roast and potatoes, or bean soup in under an hour. So good enough for me. And this is a big one, so you can make more in it. I’d have almost no use for anything smaller.
@boygenius1991
Before my cooker died, I used my pressure cooker to cook scraps of meat and bones I saved for my dog. Mixed chicken, beef, whatever together. She didn’t mind the mix, and loved the result. I put it as an added attraction with her regular food. Large beef bones take a very long time, but small chicken bones get done fairly fast. They then are soft and very easy to chew right through. (Ever see the fish bones in a can of cat food after they pressure cook it?)
And the Amazon reviews are decent.
Convinced myself.
@boygenius1991@katbyter@tweezak The cold water trick works. My mom cooked with a pressure cooker a lot. Ran cold water and took the pressure valve off. If I recall correctly the lid was then able to be removed within just a few minutes without getting potato on the ceiling.
@boygenius1991@katbyter@Kidsandliz@tweezak first off, I’m biased, this is my product. So I too never understood what the hype was with pressure cookers until I got this Chefman. I’ve used it 5 times in the last two weeks, mostly to cook large amounts of meat I got from Costco (bone in and boneless chicken thighs for meal prepping). It’s so quick and so easy and I like how much meat I can sear at a time before pressure cooking. The oval shape really helps the surface area at the bottom. Again, I’m biased, but I really think $59 is a steal for this thing.
@boygenius1991@katbyter@tweezak I would assume that your T-FAL is a stove-top cooker, not an electric one. Running water over electric appliances is not generally recommended.
Even if you water-proofed the electronics (not really so tough to do), you’d still be faced with the fact that the electric cooker has an insulated housing which keeps it reasonably cool on the countertop, but also resists the cooling effect of the water.
Instead, electric cookers are equipped with a simple valve which allows them to be de-pressurized in a matter of seconds.
However, some recipes (for either electric or stove-top units) do require a slow cool-down period, which would not be included in the actual pressurized cooking time, thus leading to deceptively short cooking times.
BTW - Due to power limitations, electric cookers cannot reach the highest pressure [temperature] settings that stove-top cookers can.
@Kidsandliz@shahnm I agree, weird is the appropriate word. I love Pachelbel, but don’t think I want to listen to this version again.
And don’t think I could enjoy regular Pachelbel at the moment – I’ll try tomorrow, after cleansing my palate with some Black Sabbath or Twisted Sister, or something.
@Kidsandliz@shahnm We used these chickens for a Boy Scout training. The adults got seriously tired of listening to them, and they were eventually impounded. Thanks for all the videos - I made sure to send them around!
I’m not in the market for one of these because I have a Dutch oven and a pressure cooker and a rice cooker, but, if I were, I’d just get an Instant Pot on sale. That’s the brand everyone loves.
Maybe even as much as I love my Zojirushi rice cooker.
@craigthom OMG when I bought a rice cooker back when my kid lived at home it was such a time saver. I didn’t even realize how much so until I got one. And non fast cook rice tastes so much better. We had rice at nearly every meal and my kid (from SE Asia came here at almost 10) would eat left over rice with all sorts of other things added in for breakfast. Back then rice in our household was sort of like milk in most households - always needed some in the fridge.
@craigthom Electric pressure cookers have been around a lot longer than Instant Pot. They just have a kick-butt marketing team that has convinced everyone they invented a brand new appliance that somehow most of America had never heard of. And they created an enormous craze over it. But they’re no better than any other electric pressure cooker, IMHO. And even on sale, you’re not going to get the 8-quart Instant Pot under $60. They’re all secretly the same machine with different labels.
Lol. New trend of old idea. Let’s hop on. I’ll stick with it this time and make my own food… No you won’t. If you couldn’t be arsed to cook before and didn’t know what a pressure cooker was before… I mean maybe some percent will but I bet there are a ton in the back of cabinets
Would this be big enough to fit half-pint jars for canning? I usually sterilize via boiling water, but using a pressure cooker is preferred for for non-acidic veggies.
@hyouko You really want a canner for this process, as you need to have a good handle on the pressure, and have a gauge to verify it. Pressure=temperature, and you need to hit 240° to kill the botulism spores.
@hyouko@ManBehindPlan yep you need a good old fashion manual pressure cooker to do any kind of canning, the one like are used to watch my grandmother use when I was a kid. Once in a while you can even find them in thrift shops, Good luck.
I Love my 8 qt Instant Pot…This one may be cheaper, but I know nothing of the brand. Pressure cookers have indeed been around for decades, but the Instant Pot has many more features and does a lot. A time saver in cooking time, but good recipes still require quite a bit of kitchen time. Brown Rice! Woohoo. Boiled eggs, sweet potatoes… Roasts… endless recipes…
Got a 6-quart Insignia (Best Buy) model for ½ this price six months ago. GREAT device. Made spaghetti & meatballs in 15 minutes, fabulous beef stew in 25, etc. (Times DO NOT include prep time, which can be lengthy. But cooking time is sometimes 20x faster than a slow cooker.) Planning to do artichokes at some point. I really wanted to check out the Instant Pot craze, without forking over big bucks for the name brand. These are actually fun & useful devices, if you cook a lot.
I bought an Instant Pot a while back in an Amazon deal-of-the-day. I like the convenience of “throw it in the pot and wait for the beep” cooking, but it seems like when you add in the time it takes to come up to temperature, it doesn’t really save all that much overall cooking time for many things.
@macromeh I can’t say for overall cooking time, but the convenience of minimal prep and easy cleanup of all in pot still goes a long ways. I got one of the previous Ninja Foodi deals and have used it to cook many meals, where before my main staples were either fast food, delivery or microwaveable meals. I can’t say that I’m being any healthier eating my own spaghetti or entire rack of BBQ ribs, but I certainly never made any of that myself before when I contemplated the mess involved compared to just going out.
@macromeh It all depends on what you are cooking. For a bunch of common stuff, time may be similar, but you do save steps, and time spent watching and stirring. For some things like cooking a big or tough cut of meat to tenderness, stews, beans, it can cut time considerably. A lot of recipes that otherwise need a slow cooker and half or more of the day, convert to 30 minutes of pressure time or less. You do have to make sure to not add too much liquid that won’t be boiling away, or too little and burn, and thickeners need to be added at the end.
Mine arrived and looks like it’s clearly new but the front control panel plastic seems like it’s unnaturally separated. It works fine as far as I can tell but with the control panel feeling like it’s going to separate it’s got me a little worried… Both for safely/electrocution worries lol, but also for longevity of the device.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
Price Comparison
$129.99 at Amazon
Warranty
1 Year Chefman After Product Registration
Estimated Delivery
Thursday, Jun 29 - Monday, Jul 3
Chefman? More like
@jmoor783 Chefman sounds sexist to me. (Topple all the statues to men!)
Wait, that’s happening already, isn’t it?
@phendrick just the slave owners. I assume you have no stars because your opinion doesn’t matter
@jmoor783
@unksol So Frederick Douglass was a slave owner? I don’t guess you’ve heard of him? Too bad there isn’t a qualifying test to be allowed to post a comment here.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/06/us/frederick-douglass-statue-toppled-trnd/index.html
is this thing good/useful? I don’t own a pressure cooker. what new things does it enable one to do?
@boygenius1991 I have one that I use for making chili, ribs, soup, anything you need to braise. I don’t use it that often but when I do it comes in handy
@boygenius1991
I use mine for ribs (2 racks at a time), rice, reheating rotisserie chickens, stew, and I can do about 15 hard-boiled eggs at once. I might get this one as it bigger than the one I currently own.
@MrMikenIkes oh, it’ll cut the time on chili? maybe it’d be good for stuff like ossobucco or irish stew
@boygenius1991 Good for cooking beans and roasts in under an hour. You can check out pressured cooking times, but don’t be fooled – those times do not count coming up to and down from pressurizing. But I can still do a roast and potatoes, or bean soup in under an hour. So good enough for me. And this is a big one, so you can make more in it. I’d have almost no use for anything smaller.
@boygenius1991 And it also does anything a regular slow cooker / crock pot does.
@boygenius1991 @katbyter getting the pressure down is quick. Run cool water over it. Serious. The manual for my T-FAL is where I learned that trick.
@boygenius1991
Before my cooker died, I used my pressure cooker to cook scraps of meat and bones I saved for my dog. Mixed chicken, beef, whatever together. She didn’t mind the mix, and loved the result. I put it as an added attraction with her regular food. Large beef bones take a very long time, but small chicken bones get done fairly fast. They then are soft and very easy to chew right through. (Ever see the fish bones in a can of cat food after they pressure cook it?)
And the Amazon reviews are decent.
Convinced myself.
@boygenius1991 @katbyter @tweezak The cold water trick works. My mom cooked with a pressure cooker a lot. Ran cold water and took the pressure valve off. If I recall correctly the lid was then able to be removed within just a few minutes without getting potato on the ceiling.
@boygenius1991 @katbyter @Kidsandliz @tweezak first off, I’m biased, this is my product. So I too never understood what the hype was with pressure cookers until I got this Chefman. I’ve used it 5 times in the last two weeks, mostly to cook large amounts of meat I got from Costco (bone in and boneless chicken thighs for meal prepping). It’s so quick and so easy and I like how much meat I can sear at a time before pressure cooking. The oval shape really helps the surface area at the bottom. Again, I’m biased, but I really think $59 is a steal for this thing.
@boygenius1991 @katbyter @tweezak I would assume that your T-FAL is a stove-top cooker, not an electric one. Running water over electric appliances is not generally recommended.
Even if you water-proofed the electronics (not really so tough to do), you’d still be faced with the fact that the electric cooker has an insulated housing which keeps it reasonably cool on the countertop, but also resists the cooling effect of the water.
Instead, electric cookers are equipped with a simple valve which allows them to be de-pressurized in a matter of seconds.
However, some recipes (for either electric or stove-top units) do require a slow cool-down period, which would not be included in the actual pressurized cooking time, thus leading to deceptively short cooking times.
BTW - Due to power limitations, electric cookers cannot reach the highest pressure [temperature] settings that stove-top cookers can.
are hot margaritas a thing yet?
Is this item useful to a Person? Woman? Man? Camera? TV?
Could you please start offering products that would benefit a Person, Woman, Man, Camera or TV?
@hotrodder… Are you a camera or tv? You seem confused… Psst someone call Sara Conner before it goes live. Like now. Do it now
Sing it!
@shahnm Ok so this is way too weird. LOL Reasonably nicely dubbed though unless he has some kind of electronic instrument inside his ducks.
@Kidsandliz
@Kidsandliz
@Kidsandliz Those are chickens not ducks.
@Kidsandliz
@Kidsandliz @shahnm I agree, weird is the appropriate word. I love Pachelbel, but don’t think I want to listen to this version again.
And don’t think I could enjoy regular Pachelbel at the moment – I’ll try tomorrow, after cleansing my palate with some Black Sabbath or Twisted Sister, or something.
@Kidsandliz @phendrick @shahnm wait that’s not how your chickens greet you?
@Kidsandliz @phendrick @shahnm @unksol Not a first choice listen, but he sure gets high marks for creativity.
@Kidsandliz @shahnm We used these chickens for a Boy Scout training. The adults got seriously tired of listening to them, and they were eventually impounded. Thanks for all the videos - I made sure to send them around!
I’m not in the market for one of these because I have a Dutch oven and a pressure cooker and a rice cooker, but, if I were, I’d just get an Instant Pot on sale. That’s the brand everyone loves.
Maybe even as much as I love my Zojirushi rice cooker.
@craigthom OMG when I bought a rice cooker back when my kid lived at home it was such a time saver. I didn’t even realize how much so until I got one. And non fast cook rice tastes so much better. We had rice at nearly every meal and my kid (from SE Asia came here at almost 10) would eat left over rice with all sorts of other things added in for breakfast. Back then rice in our household was sort of like milk in most households - always needed some in the fridge.
@craigthom Electric pressure cookers have been around a lot longer than Instant Pot. They just have a kick-butt marketing team that has convinced everyone they invented a brand new appliance that somehow most of America had never heard of. And they created an enormous craze over it. But they’re no better than any other electric pressure cooker, IMHO. And even on sale, you’re not going to get the 8-quart Instant Pot under $60. They’re all secretly the same machine with different labels.
Lol. New trend of old idea. Let’s hop on. I’ll stick with it this time and make my own food… No you won’t. If you couldn’t be arsed to cook before and didn’t know what a pressure cooker was before… I mean maybe some percent will but I bet there are a ton in the back of cabinets
@Kidsandliz I didn’t realize how convenient it would be. Measure and rinse rice, press the button, and then, whenever dinner is ready, so is the rice.
I buy basmati rice, which is relatively expensive, but is still only $15 or less for 10 pounds, and it cooks up nice and separate, with zero effort.
And the Zojirushi sings to me.
/giphy Chef Boyardee
That’s not Chef Boyardee, but I actually like the Swedish Chef better, so I’ll take it.
/image Chef Boyardee
I’m not a Chefman, I’m a chef, man!
@awk Did you do today’s write up?
@awk
I got an Insta-Pot for Christmas (actually, a bit before) and haven’t had any problems with it so far. It’s still in the box, so…
@Tadlem43 That’s a good place to keep it… It will stay clean and likely won’t break.
@Kidsandliz You’re right! I haven’t had to clean it one single time!
@Tadlem43 this says it hold 8 honking quarts. Can it cool other foods besides duck?
Would this be big enough to fit half-pint jars for canning? I usually sterilize via boiling water, but using a pressure cooker is preferred for for non-acidic veggies.
@hyouko You really want a canner for this process, as you need to have a good handle on the pressure, and have a gauge to verify it. Pressure=temperature, and you need to hit 240° to kill the botulism spores.
@hyouko @ManBehindPlan yep you need a good old fashion manual pressure cooker to do any kind of canning, the one like are used to watch my grandmother use when I was a kid. Once in a while you can even find them in thrift shops, Good luck.
@hyouko I would break down and buy a dedicated pressure canner. Botulism isn’t something you want to take chances with.
I Love my 8 qt Instant Pot…This one may be cheaper, but I know nothing of the brand. Pressure cookers have indeed been around for decades, but the Instant Pot has many more features and does a lot. A time saver in cooking time, but good recipes still require quite a bit of kitchen time. Brown Rice! Woohoo. Boiled eggs, sweet potatoes… Roasts… endless recipes…
So is this an actual pressure cooker, or does it just have a “virtual heavy lid”?
…given the lack of information in the wild I’m going to guess this isn’t anything even remotely like a “real” pressure cooker…
@Pufferfishy A lot of reviews say it doesn’t seal well, so maybe it isn’t.
It is identified numerous times as a pressure cooker. Why in the world do you think it is anything but an “actual pressure cooker”?
And what is a “virtual heavy lid”?
Got a 6-quart Insignia (Best Buy) model for ½ this price six months ago. GREAT device. Made spaghetti & meatballs in 15 minutes, fabulous beef stew in 25, etc. (Times DO NOT include prep time, which can be lengthy. But cooking time is sometimes 20x faster than a slow cooker.) Planning to do artichokes at some point. I really wanted to check out the Instant Pot craze, without forking over big bucks for the name brand. These are actually fun & useful devices, if you cook a lot.
I bought an Instant Pot a while back in an Amazon deal-of-the-day. I like the convenience of “throw it in the pot and wait for the beep” cooking, but it seems like when you add in the time it takes to come up to temperature, it doesn’t really save all that much overall cooking time for many things.
@macromeh I can’t say for overall cooking time, but the convenience of minimal prep and easy cleanup of all in pot still goes a long ways. I got one of the previous Ninja Foodi deals and have used it to cook many meals, where before my main staples were either fast food, delivery or microwaveable meals. I can’t say that I’m being any healthier eating my own spaghetti or entire rack of BBQ ribs, but I certainly never made any of that myself before when I contemplated the mess involved compared to just going out.
KuoH
@macromeh It all depends on what you are cooking. For a bunch of common stuff, time may be similar, but you do save steps, and time spent watching and stirring. For some things like cooking a big or tough cut of meat to tenderness, stews, beans, it can cut time considerably. A lot of recipes that otherwise need a slow cooker and half or more of the day, convert to 30 minutes of pressure time or less. You do have to make sure to not add too much liquid that won’t be boiling away, or too little and burn, and thickeners need to be added at the end.
I would definitely watch “cooking meat near lions.”
@lifftchi wait. You cook your meat without the lions watching? How do you tenderize without their the stares
I am still waiting on a response as to why mine arrived damaged, yet the packaging was in tact.
@Nita16 responses are taking around 7 business days right now.
Check meh.com/support/tickets to see if your email filtered out any replies to spam.
@Nita16 what kind of damage?
Mine arrived and looks like it’s clearly new but the front control panel plastic seems like it’s unnaturally separated. It works fine as far as I can tell but with the control panel feeling like it’s going to separate it’s got me a little worried… Both for safely/electrocution worries lol, but also for longevity of the device.
@scilynt
@Nita16 dang, yeah that’s distant and obvious from my damage lol. Here is what I was taking about…
Loose and warped console display area.
@scilynt Yeah. Although its different I still wouldn’t be happy