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Electric pressure cookers have proved very popular in some parts of the world and are almost unattainable elsewhere. It is certainly puzzling that where I live, in the UK, very few models are available unless by overseas mail order. Yet my fellow citizens seem to love all manner of strange cooking gadgets – bizarre combinations of bread toasters and egg cookers, blenders with heating elements, chocolate fountains.

The first generation of electric pressure cooker didn’t offer much benefit other than to those with very small kitchens and limited cooking facilities. They were like stove-top pressure cookers except that there was a heating element inside. Some of them also included a mechanical timer to switch the device off at the end of cooking time, but you still had to wait until full pressure was achieved before starting the timer. In later models, the mechanical timer was replaced with a digital timer but also with the same defects in that you had to start it manually once full pressure had been reached.