As I mentioned previously, I test ran my pressure cooker for the first time using some of the recipes from Juanita Phillips book: "A pressure cooker saved my life."
Here are my thoughts.
There should be federal funding for every family to have access to one. These things are AWESOME. Mine didn't explode, or burn or do anything alarming. I did however follow the instructions to the letter, as should you if you get one.
My goal was to see how long it would take to prepare a weeks worth of meals using the pressure cooker.
It took me two hours to produce this:

I even made chicken stock from scratch which I have never done in my life before. yes I feel hugely smug about that Husband was quite ill during my marathon and I take full credit for the fact that my chicken soup restored him to health so fast.
These are my thoughts if you decide to use yours.

• Be generous with your flavourings. "The Book" was pretty light on those though I suspect this was because she was preparing it with her children in mind. I was too, so would add salt etc for flavouring for adults at the time of serving.
• I found it INSANELY annoying that the book didn't say how many serves the recipes did. My next Pressure Cooker recipe book will HAVE to do that.
• Be organised. Map out what recipes you want to make and have it all laid out ready to go one after the other in the Pressure Cooker.
• For my next cookathon I've listed my recipes and ordered all the required food from Coles Online. If you are in Perth, Australia they have free home delivery for online orders right now. And no, they didn't pay me to say that. I just know that shopping with 3 offspring in tow right now is my idea of hell during school holidays. It also stops you from buying unnecessary items as well.