Pressure Cooker Tip: Using a Foil Sling
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Recently when I made Meyer Lemon Cheesecake in the pressure cooker, I used a foil sling. Using a sling makes removing the hot springform pan from the pressure cooking pot quick and easy.
Pressure Cooker Tip: Using a Foil Sling
To make a foil sling, you just take a 20 inch long strip of aluminum foil and fold it lengthwise in to thirds like you would fold a letter.
You can save the foil sling and reuse it. I just tuck mine away with my pressure cooker accessories so it’s ready to use whenever I’m pressure cooking using a pot within a pot.
In addition to using a foil sling, there’s also lots of gadgets you can buy to help get a pan out of the pressure cooker.
You said you could make the bacon and sausage in the pressure cooker. Did you m mean in the glass bowl i will be I using for the quiche? Or in the pot first.
Ps ignore my other post. didn’t mean to hIt post🙃
Hi Suzi – use the saute function to brown the bacon and sausage separately in the inner pot. 🙂
Where do order the stand that sits above the water so you can cook 2 things at once ie: rice on top , chicken in bottom. Im an InstaNewbie. thanks in advance.
Hi Mitch – Amazon is the easiest place to find pressure cooker accessories. Here’s a link to my Amazon store https://www.amazon.com/shop/pressurecookingtoday?listId=3FZVAHES4R9CD and the tall trivet/rack that’s perfect for stacked pot in pot cooking https://amzn.to/2m8zKrS
Can you cook a meal wrapped in aluminum foil in the Instant Pot? I assume the trivet would elevate the foil envelope off the bottom of the pan.
Hi Sharon – yes, you can cook a meal wrapped in aluminum foil on a trivet above at least a cup of water.
None of your links to the “gadget” seem to be working. I am really interested in knowing more about it, but all the current links take me to is a sign up by email. Could you please hotlink the correct link to the actual product for us?
Perhaps you are thinking of this post with the links https://www.pressurecookingtoday.com/how-to-get-a-pan-out-of-the-pressure-cooker/
Thanks for the helpful tips! I’m still learning how many wonderful options there are for cooking in the instant pot.
I have the same exact pattern of China as the one in the picture you posted of the slice of cheesecake. It belonged to my great great grandmother. I’m always on the lookout for it in junk stores and antique shops.
Thanks Pam! My mom got the China for her wedding and passed it on to me when she retired and downsized to a small kitchen. I love using it in my pictures because it reminds me of her. How fun that you have it as well.
I happened across this and am glad I did! Explains it perfectly for me. Wish I had seen it before I made the Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bundt cake! Would have been a lot easier. Next time, I am doing it this way! Thank you for all your great tips and recipes!
Thanks Nancy – I added a link to this post on the Bundt cake recipe.
I don’t have many recipes that use the helper handles but when they are used, they really come in handy. I use heavy duty foil to make the handle and find that it makes me feel more secure about lifting anything heavy out of the pressure cooker.
My Triple Berry Bread Pudding which is made in a 1 1/2 quart Corning dish uses the handle and it works like a charm.
I also like to store my handle with my pressure cooker accessories because it just makes sense to have it handy if it’s needed, and to reuse it.
Thanks for the post.
Thanks Jill – I need to check out that Triple Berry Bread Pudding recipe. It sounds like one I would love.
Hello,
I was thinking the sling was to keep it off the bottom but is it to just make the dish easier to pull out – it isn’t to keep it from touching the bottom, right? Sorry, dumb question – love the idea of the artichoke recipe you posted and just wanted to make sure. Fan of your site too!
Thanks,
Renee
Hi Rene – not a dumb question at all. Yes, the sling is just to make it easier to pull out of the pressure cooking pot. You use it in conjunction with a trivet/rack to keep it off the bottom of the pressure cooker.
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Can any electric pressure cooker do a cake?
I have the Cuisinart CPC-600 which did not come with a trivet and see recipes for electric pressure cookers which seem to have more features or hardware.
Want to make sure I don’t do anything risky/dangerous with mine.
Hi Evan – Your Cuisinart CPC-600 should have come with a trivet. It shows it having one on Amazon. You can buy one http://www.cuisinart.com/parts/specialty_appliances/cpc-600.html but maybe if you called Cuisinart and told them yours was missing, they’d send you one? I don’t know of any pressure cookers that you can not cook a cake in using the method I used to make my cheesecake. https://www.pressurecookingtoday.com/wp-admin/edit-comments.php?comment_status=all#comments-form
I found my trivet in the very bottom of the box under the pressure cooker. Didn’t see it for a while, it was wrapped in paper and I thought I didn’t get one, either. It is kind of hard to see, wish they put it inside the cooker.