Kuhn RikonPressure Cooker Duromatic Inox 6L/24cm Food Steamer with Side Grips. Multi Cooker Hotpot with Auto Lock Lid. Stainless Steel Pot. Instant Cook Pot – 10 Year Kuhn Rikon Cookware Guarantee

Great investment albeit a expensive. Cook super quick as good as my old SEB.

Ooh how I love this pressure cooker. Yes its a premium product and carries a pretty hefty price tag - similar sized cheaper brands are easily available for a quarter of the price. However, they will not perform like this one!I have used a pressure cooker for a number of years, and hated the sound of the steam escaping. It was a cheap and cheerful affair bought from a leading catalogue store just as I was grasping cooking for a family. I bought a 7 litre pressure cooker at the time and it had plenty of space but was also heavy to lift and took up a lot of space due to the long handle. It was retired after the lid slipped off my dish rack and the handle broke - no longer holding pressure.I looked long and hard before buying this cooker, unsure of which brand or size I should go for. The only thing I was sure of was that I wanted a stainless steel one - have read many articles on the concerns of using other materials for cooking, I had concluded that stainless steel was the direction to go in.In the end after looking at many reviews and prices I concluded that Kuhn Rikon was the way to go for the make. The fact that purchases have a lengthy warranty from a reputable brand was reassuring. Having watched numerous videos I was impressed with how quite it was and that the pressure could be adjusted. The fact that such little water was needed and the speed at which things could be cooked were all factors in my decision (although I did think that the times had been exaggerated somewhat - how wrong I was!)So all I was left with deciding was the size… Not such an easy decision, I had a 7 litre previously and had found it was too big for everyday use but perfect when we had guests. I wanted the shorter handles which Kuhn Rikon have for my new pressure cooker and so it was between the 6 and 8 litre. Should I go even bigger - or lose a litre? Well I clearly went for the 6… why? I concluded that as the Kuhn Rikon required less water I should be able to cook enough for my family of 5 and a few extra guests comfortably.Overall, am I happy with my purchase? YES! It performs better than expected - it cooks REALLY quickly, lentils were cooked in 5 minutes flat, the liquid needed is much less and this takes some getting used. It clean up easily and the shorter handles are perfect to lift with and definitely easier to store.

So far, I've used it twice in just 3 days and I'm delighted with it. It was more than twice the price that it would have been to replace my old Tefal 4l one, which I wrecked by lighting the gas under the lid and instantly melting the 2 valve parts. Tefal will not supply the cheap parts to repair it (or allow anyone else to) and wanted £55 to send it to Manchester for repair. So I've bought a pot lid (also Kuhn Rikon) and 2 pot handles to convert the pan to an ordinary pot.The Kuhn Rikon pressure cooker is indeed quieter and less dramatic than the Tefal one and seems to produce slightly lower pressure, which I think is good. A beef stew still had visible pieces of onion and celery in it, whereas the previous cooker would have reduced it to just pieces of meat in a smooth sauce. Delicious but not really stew. The 6l size is not as industrial as it sounds as you can only fill the pot to half to two-thirds. And the 10-year guarantee is impressive. The only tiny problem is that the recipe book is in Spanish, but I'm hoping the British subsidiary will be able to help me with that.

Great size, great quality. Difficult to negotiate the lid mechanism, undoubtedly due to the lack of a handle (on the plus side this however, means of takes up less cupboard space.

I love this pressure cooker. I've had it for a few months now and although it was frighteningly expensive I now consider it totally essential and it is in almost daily use. Its much much quicker and easier to cook almost anything in this pressure cooker. Its totally easy to use and very good looking. I was a bit concerned I'd only be using it now and then for cooking chickpeas etc. but actually its good for anything you might ordinarily cook in a saucepan - but super speedy. I especially like the fact that it is very quiet and that it doesn't have a long handle so I can store it on a pan rack easily. I cook daily for a family of 6 and a 6 litre model is good for us - however if I wanted to cook larger quantities to freeze I could really do with an 8 litre pan. At first you have to look up timings for everything but you soon get a feel for how long things will take and I am no longer needing to check the booklet. Its so easy to reduce the pressure by pushing down the vent that you can easily check your cooking and then add a few more minutes if needed. Very happy customer.

This is a good looking product and is far quieter when in use, when compared to the Prestige pressure cooker I used for 35 years. I only replaced the aluminium Prestige because we bought an induction hob.Now, I find myself after only 3 years, having to replace one of the handles on the lid of the pressure cooker. They cost around £12.95 each + £5 postage. Now, there are 4 handles all together. If replacing all 4, we're looking at spending £56.80 for four plastic handles. Maybe I'm buying a part for a premium brands product, but if the product were that good, then the handles wouldn't be failing after only 3 years of occasional use.The handle is held in place by a self tapping screw going straight into the plastic. When it comes a bit lose, most of us will just locate the screw and tighten it, not expecting the thread to get stripped. If a set of those handles were genuinely worth over £50, they wouldn't be held in place with poor quality wood screws.