Cookin Potatoes.........

I often use a steamer to steam rice and potatoes and the like....  But it takes a long time to do it...  About a half an hour to get rice to absorb all the water in its inner pan...  And the potatoes seem to take just as long....

I have been using a plastic Wal Mart steamer that is about $20 or so, and they last about a year before becoming grungy and caked with water calcium and the like...  And generally then won't come clean any more...

So I was reading about rice steamers and came across an article about just using the family pressure cooker...  With an inner pan, like you do on the steamer.

So I asked Loyce where our pressure cooker  was............. "uh, do we still have one?"..... was the response...   And after looking all over the house, I decided that it must have gone the way of good will...



So lets go get one..  off to the Wal Mart,  as they seemed to have inexpensive models for my test..  And I found one too, in the pots and pans aisle...  $29 for the big one....  Which was really too big for what I had in mind, but I didn't know that until I was home and it was out of the box....

But the story in Wal Mart didn't end there...  I went over into the Pharmacy area, where an older gentleman on a store scooter cart said     "OH OH!!"  real loud......   "You must be one of those guys.......!!  Are you going to build a bomb??" he was a real ornery looking guy with a twinkle in his eye...  "Uh well, no...  See, no nails or bb's in my cart....."   Good land........!  By now everyone for 30 feet around was looking at me...

Then another fellow in the check out lane asked me "if I had to sign a book or something to buy one of those," as he motioned at the box in my cart....?     I see the news on the TV 24/7 has caused the folks here in Kansas to be very alert... to say the least..

Once up to the checkout lady, who was fairly elderly, with gray hair and spinster half glasses...  I wondered if I was about to be challenged.....  But being one to play the devils advocate, I asked if I had to sign a book to buy one of these..........

"For a kitchen pot?"  "For land sake, why.......?"   I just loaded the box in my cart after she scanned it, and moved on to the rest of my groceries, which included some of those sweet potatoes I was going to cook...

I can't help but wonder what rock that gal was living under.....   But the new "kitchen pot" did those potatoes in about 8 minutes...   See, grandma didn't need any ole microwave thingy!!!

Retired Rod