If you surf the internet for the hottest new cooking tools, one, in particular, will most definitely stand out: The Famous Pressure Cooker! Pressure cookers are similar to a regular saucepan except that the lid is sealed, trapping steam inside the pan at high pressure. A valve keeps the pressure at the correct level. What’s better than cooking in one pot and cutting down on doing the dishes after every meal you serve?
Pressure cookers are winning the hearts and hands of people all over the world, If you are a cooking fanatic, you most probably know that it doesn’t get better than this! Why should you own a pressure cooker in the first place? The answer is simple but we will do you a favor by breaking down its top usage benefits in the following blog.
1-Time-Saving
Slow cooking is always tastier than fast cooking, so they say! However, it is also time-consuming. What if there was a way to spend less time, less time cooking, and less time cleaning? While slow cooking using open cookware, steam and oil escape from the pot which results in dry, burnt, raw food. Slow cooking using a pressure cooker is always a better idea for a number of reasons. Steam and oil can never escape since it is firmly closed. All liquids are preserved including those coming from veggies, meat, chicken, or fish which leaves your food perfectly moist and juicy! Preserving liquids through your cooking process makes the food cook faster and more effectively, this means that you can drastically reduce cooking time compared to boiling with the lid off. It also allows you to cut down on the time you would spend doing the dishes, as instead of using multiple pots and utensils to cook one meal, you will only need the pressure cooker!
2-Energy Saving
Ever heard of an eco-friendly kitchen tool? We have got the best one yet for you! Pressure cookers are super eco-friendly. If you are wondering how that is even possible, think no more. Read the following paragraph and find out all the eco perks of a pressure cooker. Pressure cookers can save you money as well as time. Since less steam escapes from a pressure cooker than from a regular saucepan, pressure cookers can use up to 70% less energy, reducing fuel bills and carbon emissions. Also, the carbon impact of electrical appliances should continue to decline in line with the further planned decarbonization of the national grid. Gas appliances, however, which burn fossil fuels at the point of use, will always lead to emissions.
3-Nutrients Retaining
Is pressure cooking healthy? In a word, yes. Let’s take a look at why. As pressure cookers cook at such high temperatures, there’s often a concern as to whether they’ll kill all the wonderful vitamins and minerals found in fresh food ingredients. But fear not. Pressure cookers actually preserve nutrients in food. This is because, in general, shorter cooking times mean greater preservation of vitamins and minerals. In fact, according to one study, steaming (like pressure cooking) may actually ensure better preservation of antioxidants and other nutrients than other cooking methods.
4- Tasty Recipes
The pressure cooker works by turning liquid into steam and cooking food in a sealed pot. The food doesn’t cook by boiling; instead, it cooks with superheated (almost 250ºF) steam. Because the food cooks faster and very little moisture escapes, the flavors are richer and more developed. In my many years of pressure cooking, I have always noticed that vegetables tend to have brighter colors and better textures when cooked this way compared to many other ways of cooking.
