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Food Preparation:
Certain
foods – liquid foods such as soups
and foods such as lentils, pulses,
beans and rice which expand during
cooking and/or froth – should not be
filled more than half the capacity of
the cooker body (all ingredients, food
and water combined).
Any food which froths
excessively and sprouts out of the
cooker – such as
moong dal
,
urad
dal
,
tuvar dal
and soybeans – should
not be filled more than one-third the
capacity of the cooker; if sprouting
still occurs, reduce quantity further
suitably until sprouting stops. We
do not recommend cooking
moong
dal
or
urad dal
in 3 Litre and smaller
size cookers. The volumes of the
two-thirds, half and one-third capacities for each size of Hawkins
are given in
Maximum Cooking Capacities and Volumes for
Different Sizes of Hawkins
on page 41.
The
lid
comes assembled with the detachable rubber
gasket
.
It can be removed from the
lid curl
with your fingers. The gasket
can be easily put back by slipping the
lid handle
through the
gasket and patting and pushing it down all along the lid curl until it is
seated properly. See how it is done in the pictures in the next column.
The cross section of the gasket for the 8 Litre (Wide), 10 Litre and
12 Litre Classic is not round like the cross section of the gasket for
the 8 Litre Tall Classic, 6.5 Litre or smaller capacity. The cross section
of the gasket for the 8 Litre (Wide) to 12 Litre pressure cookers has a
round bottom and a slightly flattened top as is shown below.
In the 8 Litre (Wide), 10 Litre and 12 Litre Classic, the gasket is
marked "OTHER SIDE UP" on the round side which has to be placed at
the bottom on the lid curl. For proper sealing, the slightly flattened
side of the gasket should face up.
THE CROSS-SECTIONS
OF GASKETS
FOR
8 LITRE TALL
CLASSIC
AND SMALLER
COOKERS
FOR 8 LITRE (WIDE),
10 LITRE AND 12 LITRE
COOKERS
"other side up"
written on
this side
OTH
ER SID
E UP
OT
HER
SIDE U
P
CAPACITY FOR CERTAIN FOODS
SOLID FOODS
FOODS THAT FROTH EXCESSIVELY
AND SPROUT
12
FULL
FOODS THAT FROTH OR EXPAND
2
3
FULL
13
FULL
