Why you should buy an electric pressure cooker

Why you should buy an electric pressure cooker

Forget whatever horror stories you heard about your olden style pressure cookers. Today's safe, reliable electric pressure cookers are the best way to save time and cook a delicious nutritious meal. You can get home at 6:00 and have a complete, fresh, homecooked meal on the table by 6:30 or even earlier. Once you've started using pressure cookers, you will find they beat the meals made in microwaves hands down.

Here's the science bit of how a pressure cooker works. The heavy lid locks into place sealing the pot so that steam cannot escape. At this pressure water boils at 257 degrees Farenheit instead of the usual 212 degrees F. The higher temperature reduces the cooking time. About three times faster than regular stove top cooking methods. Small to medium-sized potatoes cook in five minutes, and a whole "roast" chicken dinner cooks in only twenty minutes. All foods, vegetables in particular, keep their color and their flavor. Nutrients stay trapped in the pot instead of dissipating in a cloud of steam.

For family use the Kuhn Rikon 7 liter stainless steel pressure cooker is the gold standard. An aluminum disk in the base, sandwiched by stainless steel, cooks evenly on gas, electric, ceramic and induction stovetops. In addition, it has modern safety features that steadily regulate the pressure of the pot while it cooks.

At the cheaper end there are Presto cookers, which produce two main types of pressure cooker pots - those made from stainless steel and those made from aluminum. Professional chefs prefer a stainless pressure cooker because it is nonreactive and can be safely cleaned in a dishwasher, but aluminum is also a good choice if weight is a consideration. You want heat resistant double handles, one on each side of the pot, in every case. Families don't really need anything larger than a 6 quart pressure cooker. However, if you do large scale canning, purchase a bigger pot.

You are better off sticking with a name brand manufacturer even when price is your primary consideration. Buying a brand means that it is easier to get replacement parts several years down the line, and of course the quality is better which means your cooker lasts longer. Small things such as valves and new seals on the lid can make the difference between your pressure cooker working properly and not working at all.

Most pressure cooker models come with baskets, and racks so that you can place several items into the cooker at once. Most chefs brown meats before attaching the lid so food sticking to the pot does occur. You may still want to avoid nonstick interiors, however. The occasional inconvenience of a little extra cleaning far outweighs the risk of a pitted or peeling interior coating. Electric pressure cookers have less of a problem with non-stick interiors.

Cuisinart makes a programmable electric pressure cooker worth considering. Priced between the Presto and the Kuhn Rikon pressure cooker its push-button controls and digital display make an attractive package. The Cuisnart can be programmed for high or low pressure cooking, browning, simmering, sauteing or warming. And you got to admit that an electronic thermostat is more foolproof than setting a stovetop control to a precise position. You do give up some flexibility, however, because you can't open the lid until the cooker says you can. By contrast with stovetop pressure cookers, you can decide when to drop the pressure by putting the pot under cold water.

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