4
Trial Run
Before cooking in your MISS MARY pressure
cooker, take a trial run:
1. Remove label.
2. Pour 1 cup water into cooker body. Add 1
teaspoon fresh lime juice or a little tamarind. This
will ensure that the inside of the cooker body
remains clean.
3. Remove vent weight from lid. Look through the
vent tube and ensure it is clear. Check and adjust
the seating of gasket on lid curl. Close cooker
without vent weight. Place cooker on high heat.
4. When water boils, steam should come out only
from vent tube. If steam comes out around the
edges of the lid, unlock and reposition the lid by
moving the lid slightly towards spots where steam
is escaping and lock.
5. Once steam is coming out of the vent tube in a
continuous stream, fit vent weight on vent tube
immediately.
6. In about 2 minutes you will hear a slight hissing
sound. Soon after, the vent weight will lift and
steam will be forced out with a loud hissing sound.
This means that the cooker has come to full
cooking pressure.
7. Once full pressure is reached, reduce heat so that
you are able to hear a slight hissing sound caused
by the gentle escape of steam. This is the right
level of reduced heat. This is the stage when you
start timing the recipe.
8. Turn off heat. Remove cooker from stove. Allow to
cool naturally. Certain recipes may require the
cooker to be opened immediately. In this case, use
a spoon or fork to lift vent weight to release steam.
After all steam is released, unlatch handle and
remove lid. It will take less than a minute for steam
to be released completely.
9. Open cooker. Empty out water and wipe dry
cooker. Before cooking in a MISS MARY pressure
cooker, read the remaining instructions.
