Product Description

Prestige 57050 Pressure Cookers S/S 6 Ltr - Mechanical Locking Device- A Special Cam Locks The Lid And The Body Of The Pressure Cooker - Two Pressure Settings 8Lb And 12Lb Cook Control For Versatility When Cooking - Visual Pressure Indicator- Raises To Indicat The Cooker Is Now At Pressure - Directional Pressure Regulator- Ensures Safe Release Of Steam Away From You - Made From 18/10 Stainless Steel For Maximum Durability - Dishwasher Safe Body - 6 Litre Capacity - Prestige Lifetime Guarantee

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7231 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Meyer Group Ltd
• Model: 57050
• Released on: 2004-03-30

Manufacturer's Description
This 6L Pressure Cooker is made from 18/10 stainless steel for maximum durability and has two pressure settings (8lb and 12lb) for versatility when cooking. Safety features include a directional pressure regulator that ensures the steam releases away from you and a special cam that locks the lid and body of the pressure cooker.

Customer Reviews

Not made to the old standard
My wife had a Prestige pressure cooker in 1976 and wished to replace it because the handles 'aged'. The new one was made in Siam. Ir regularly blows it's rubber safety valve. On checking the hole into which the safety valve fits I found it to be punched out .613" diameter compared to .600" for the original for which the spare safety valves are supposedly a common spare. Clearly poorly controlled quality in a product sent out for manufacture in a low cost country.
Trading on the remains of their brand image

7 litre version just as bad
I have just bought a 7 litre version of the Prestige Smartplus pressure cooker having owned a prestige cooker for 20 years. It is useless. It leaks steam from the valve and constantly drips water and doesn't come to pressure for a long time. Half a pint of water isn't enough to cook simple potatoes with as this leaks before pressure is reached.

Expectation deflated
There is greater steam release from the Prestige Smartplus stainless steel pressure cooker than with its older aluminium predecessor. This fact alone causes greater water loss.

Whereas with the earlier Prestige aluminium pressure cooker, (which has three weighted pressure valves), it took 28 minutes to cook 1 lb of soya beans, (after 24 hours pre-soaking.) In order to properly cook the same quantity using the Smartplus stainless steel pressure cooker, which only has two pressure valve settings, it now takes 1 hour for the soya beans to cook. Not only that, but it uses more than double the quantity of water to do so. This really defeats the "steam cooking" process.

Prestige produced a nice sleek design with the Smartplus pressure cooker, but failed in its functionality, which is, after all, the most important aspect, and certainly more important than design. The older aluminium pressure cooker cooked at 15 psi at its higher of three settings. Its Smartplus stainless steel replacement only goes to 12 psi at its higher of only two settings. This is the reason for double the cooking time.

However, my greatest complaint concerned the factory finishing and cleaning of the inside of the Prestige Smartplus stainless steel pressure cooker.

After the fairly high price paid for the item I expected it to be not only thoroughly cleaned and polished outside, but the same inside as well.

I was somewhat taken aback by the fact that there was considerable factory residue on the inside of the pressure cooker, as well as talc on the rubber seal. Even though it is quite normal to thoroughly clean cooking utensils with hot water and soap and rinse well afterwards, to remove all factory contaminants, which I did. I was taken by alarm and surprise to find that there was a thin metallic film on the inside of the lid after the first complete cooking under pressure of the soya beans.

Having removed the soya beans, I immersed the lid and saucepan in cold water in the sink. My concern was intensified to find that the metallic smears were floating on top of the water! This implied that the food contents were also coated in a thin metallic residue, even after thoroughly washing in hot soapy water and rinsing before cooking. Following this discovery I had to throw away the whole contents of the "now contaminated" 1lb of organic soya beans!

I purchased the Prestige Smartplus stainless steel pressure cooker specifically for cooking the organic soya beans on a regular basis (followed by a fermentation process.) I am now left very dissatisfied with this product and shall look for a replacement by another manufacturer!

Having made the complaint to Customer Services at Prestige, pointing out all the above points, including throwing away the contaminated contents after cooking, they made no offer to compensate for the loss!