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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 17.0 inches | | Product Width: | 14.0 inches | | Product Height: | 17.0 inches | | Product Weight: | 15.0 pounds | | Package Length: | 17.5 inches | | Package Width: | 17.1 inches | | Package Height: | 13.8 inches | | Package Weight: | 14.2 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 28 reviews |
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2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Easy to use when you have all of the information! Sep 29, 2009
OK. I read several other reviews AFTER reading the instruction manual but BEFORE using the canner. I thought, "Come on people! How hard can it be?" Then I used the canner and momentarily feared for my life!
The directions clearly state that you should put your canning jars in, seal the lid, put your burner on high to heat the cooker WITHOUT the weight, and wait for steam to come out the pressure vent tube. Once steam comes out of the vent tube, you should set a timer for 10 minutes to allow the cooker to come up to pressure before applying the weight. Once the the weight has been added, you should reduce heat until the weight jiggles. Easy, right? Keep in mind that the directions are also very clear that if you see the red reusable overpressure plug pop or steam come out of the safety window, you should protect your face, turn off the heat, and allow the cooker to cool.
So, imagine my surprise when while bringing the cooker up to pressure, steam started to spill out from around the handle and a red button on the handle popped. I hit the deck and slunk toward my cooker like I was entering enemy territory. With a racing heart (this is the fearing for my life part) I quickly turned down the heat. I readjusted the gasket and tried again only to have the same thing happen. I was about to take the stupid thing back until I did an internet search and found that the button on the handle is the PRESSURE MONITORING GAGE. It pops up when the cooker is up to pressure! The overpressure plug is on the lid. The pressure monitoring button is called out on the box but IT IS NOT MENTIONED IN THE DIRECTIONS. After I acquired this jewel of information, the thing was a breeze to use. You don't even have to worry about the jiggling (which I also found out from my internet search is more a hissing), because as long as the pressure button is up, you are good to go! Another thing the directions do not tell you is how much water to add. I have the book "Preserving the Harvest" and it states to add 2-3 inches. So, after a little trial and error, I have found the cooker to be extremely reliable and easy to use. The directions? Not so much!
Hopefully, this little bit of information about the pressure monitoring button will spare someone else the terror of thinking their kitchen is going to be blown to pieces:)
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Not for the novice pressure canner Sep 21, 2009
I have been doing water bath canning for a while and wanted to make a leap to pressure canning. The instructions (like others have said) are for about 5 different cookers from the same company. The instructions were VERY vague and I even enlisted 3 other people (one of whom HAS had experience with pressure cookers) and they were all stumped. I don't think it's that I'm stupid, but when it comes to something potentially dangerous, I want to know EXACTLY what to do and what to expect. We could never get the weights to jiggle nor rock no matter what we did. I tried calling the number in the instruction book and of course I got a machine, since they only seem to be open when I am at work. ANyway, we figured it to be faulty, and maybe the fact that vent punched through BOTH boxes during shipment might have damaged it. I sent this back and will be trying a different brand, and from a local store! Lugging this to the post office with little kids in tow wasn't my idea of a fun outing.
 Just what I wanted Sep 13, 2009
I love my new pressure canner. It has a smaller footprint so does not take up as much stove top as my other one but is taller so I can double stack pints. This is important to me because I prefer to use the smaller pint size jars.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
NOT FOR USE ON CERAMIC OR GLASS ELECTRIC RANGES Sep 11, 2009
Though it is a beautiful product, it says right on the box (and a call to Mirro verified it) that this pressure canner is NOT FOR USE ON GLASS OR CERAMIC COOKTOPS. It will not come up to pressure and will warp, rendering it useless on any cooking surface. Very disappointing news, as many of the new electric ranges feature smoothtop cooking.
Mirro offers ONLY 3 replacement parts! Aug 31, 2009
We bought this pressure cooker new but didn't use it for a few months. Now that we've started to use it, we found that the cover handle is broken. We found a few websites that list the part but none of them actually stock it. So we called Mirro/Wearever (800-527-7727) and they don't sell the cover handle. In fact, they only sell three replacement parts - the gasket, safety valve and cooking/canning rack. The woman we spoke to at Mirro wasn't exactly helpful either. She just said that they don't sell the cover handle and they don't sell the lid as a replacement part either. When we asked her if we had any other options she just said no and remained silent.
How can one do future business with a company like this? We won't. $100 down the drain!
There are pressure cookers/canners with better ratings in any case so we're going to have to go that route.
Good luck to you!
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