What size electric pressure cooker should you get? Jeffrey Eisner, the author of "The Step-by-Step Instant Pot Cookbook," recommends starting with a 6-quart cooker and then adding an 8-quart model ...

the Duromatic Pressure Cooker, 7.4-Quart didn’t wow us. Getting it to hold a certain pressure was difficult, so we found ourselves standing over the pot fiddling with the burner half the time.

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