Presto 8 Quart Stainless Steel Pressure Cooker

[tctc100fl]

I have this pressure cooker. For those of you who have been frying up chicken for a while, have you seen anyone mention using this cooker or used it yourself? I searched this section of the boards and didn't see any mention of Presto other than something about the gasket maybe fitting another brand.

Presto 01370 Pro 8-quart Stainless Steel Pressure Cooker Review


Manual - 
www.gopresto.com/uploads/downloads/instructions/01370.pdf

Item 15 on pg 3:

"15. Do not use this pressure cooker for pressure frying with oil."


If I had to make an educated guess, you can probably get away with pressure frying in one of these but a Wear-Ever or one of the others is a better option

[btb]

Feb 25, 2021 4:29:00 GMT tctc100fl said:

I have this pressure cooker. For those of you who have been frying up chicken for a while, have you seen anyone mention using this cooker or used it yourself? I searched this section of the boards and didn't see any mention of Presto other than something about the gasket maybe fitting another brand.

Presto 01370 Pro 8-quart Stainless Steel Pressure Cooker Review


Manual - 
www.gopresto.com/uploads/downloads/instructions/01370.pdf

Item 15 on pg 3:

"15. Do not use this pressure cooker for pressure frying with oil."


If I had to make an educated guess, you can probably get away with pressure frying in one of these but a Wear-Ever or one of the others is a better option

I've used 4 types/brands of pressure fryers over the years before the litigious American experience almost wiped the product out from its domestic use, except most elsewhere in the world.  I had recently noted this Presto unit and have been very impressed with it and preliminarily believe it can easily be used for pressure frying.  I would like to study that more, but it does look very good.  But Presto -- as well as other manufacturers in the U.S. -- cannot say it can be used for pressure frying because their legal Dept. won't let them . . . not that their advice is warranted IMO.

Here are facts:  (1) In the U.S., all stove top pressure cooking devices must for -- IMO -- unsubstantiated and alleged legal reasons, . . . be called "pressure cookers," and not "pressure fryers."  Reason: . .  fear of litigation, settlement costs (even with misuse), defense expenses (even with little to no real cases), etc., etc. . . . That does not however mean their devices cannot be safely used for pressure frying, however !!  (2)  All U.S. based (maybe U.K. also) sellers feel that they must give warnings like that that you mentioned . . . " Do not use this pressure cooker for pressure frying with oil" but not based on any law in existence.  There is absolutely no legislation that requires that, however.  None whatsoever.  But all my junior attorneys that worked for me (but not in the KFC area) would have recommended reciting such "disclaimers" in the hopes to alleviate liability if sued.  But the reality is that the case law in the U.S. doesn't support it at all. 

I'd like to hear from any U.S. based attorney out there to find and recite successful lawsuits that were based on negligent manufacturing of pressure cookers that were used for pressure frying . . .  and that resulted in damages. I believe that they are few and far between and that the law in this area is very unsettled . . . except in the minds of junior corporate attorneys.

I continue to use my latest Magefesa 10 Quart Stainless Steel Pressure Cooker (really a pressure fryer, as it was called when I bought it) which has served me and my family well for cooking/pressure frying meals of several styles of pressure cooked products for many years (chicken, pork chops, broasted potatoes, etc.).  Good luck tctc100fl.  I'd like to hear more of your experience with the Presto unit as I think it is really a very high quality unit.  I'm in Pinellas West of you and I, too, have rarely experienced any quality KFC store product in recent times. How times have changed.