[Electronics-Talk] Pressure Cookers

[David Andrews]

The Instant Pot is pretty widely used in the blind community.  They 
have models, that include bluetooth, and apparently the app, on an 
iPhone is accessible. It is also possible to get a non-bluetooth 
model, and control it.  You will have to either braille the buttons, 
or make a chart of what each button does.  It is a little 
complicated, different buttons change cooking time by different 
amounts, but a blind person can use it with a little preparation.

I made a chart of buttons and times, and got a couple cookbook  put 
into Braille, and recorded, so have figured it out.

Dave

At 02:38 PM 8/19/2017, you wrote:
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>Good afternoon everyone,
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>                 I came across some books on Bookshare.org concerning
>pressure cookers. I know there are pressure cookers one can use on the stove
>but am curious to know if there are any electrick ones and how usable they
>are by the blind. I recall wen I was at Perkins in the 1970s that only
>students with residual vision were taught to use pressure cookers. Yup this
>is the nation's premier school for the blind caving into the higherarchy of
>sight. Shame on them!
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>                 I found some books and videos about using a pressure cooker
>from America's Test Kitchen and from none other than Jacque Peppin. Leave it
>to the personal chef of French President Charles Degaul to observe that one
>can tell how high the pressure is by listening to the intensity of the hiss
>the unit makes a technique a blind cook can use to use pressure cookers
>safely and with ease.
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>                 Pressure cookers have come along ways since I was in school
>and there are other tips and tricks blind persons have figured out to use
>them independently. Sindce the focus here is electronics any feedback about
>electric pressure cookers and how they can be used by the blind will be very
>much appreciated. All the best.
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>Peter Donahue