Our old and trusty pressure cooker finally bit the dust late last year.  Every time I get a roast and think about using the pressure cooker, I have to remind myself that it’s gone.  We had one of the traditional ones with the jiggler weight.  We got it as a present from my parents a long long time ago.

Roll the clock forward and after some digging around, I decided to go with the Fagor Duo 8-Quart Pressure Cooker.  I also bought a couple new cookbooks, “Pressure Perfect: Two Hour Taste in Twenty Minutes Using Your Pressure Cooker” and “Chili Madness: Second Edition”.  If you know me, you know that I love Chili all year round.  I kept seeing a Chili book at Williams Sonoma and have almost bought it a couple times.  Who knows, I still might buy that one as well