Mirro 22-quart pressure cooker quickly and healthfully cooks foods with trapped steam at temperatures higher than boiling. It's the ideal size for families. Pressure cooking requires little water so nutrients, flavor, and color are not boiled away. Made of rust-proof, heavy-gauge aluminum, the cooker has a stay-cool, locking handle. Mirro pressure cookers are designed with safety in mind. This one features the "Triple Safe Design" with a safety release plug, sure-locking lid system, and side gasket pressure release.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Great canner:
We love this for canning. It took a little time to adjust from our old canner which has a single 15 lb weight and limited capacity to this one. No more one batch at a time late nights for us.
Weights included :-):
I was happy with this purchase because it comes with the 5 lb, 10 lb and 15 lb pressure weights. My canned goods never tasted so well.
Easy to use when you have all of the information!:
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... more info
Not for the novice pressure canner:
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... more info
