Pressure cooker tips and tricks from the expert. We’re always adding new tips, so come visit us often to get the most use from your pressure cooker!
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Pressure Cook Tomato-Based Recipes Like a Pro!
7 Aug 2018Laura Pazzaglia
Doesyour pressure cooker scorch and burn at thethought of pressure cooking a tomato-based recipe? Are you tired of chipping away last night's dinner from the base of your pressure...
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Mini Mania: Shrink Pressure Cooker Recipes for the Instant Pot MINI
18 Jun 2018Laura Pazzaglia
This nearly pocket-sized 3-quart cooker is small and cute but cooking in a world of recipes written for larger pressure cookers is definitelya challenge! Here's how to adjust larger recipes, and...
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21 Jan 2018Laura Pazzaglia
How to choose a heat-safe container to use in the pressure cooker – and how its materials and shape affect the cooking time of the food inside them!
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How Baking Powder Reacts Under Pressure
21 Jan 2018Laura Pazzaglia
To illustrate how baking powder behaves in the pressure cooker, we need three cooks to bake a cake. One lives at sea level, the other in a high-altitude location, and the last one in a low-altitude location..
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Pressure Cooker Cheesecake DO’s and DON’Ts
21 Jan 2018Laura Pazzaglia
I’m about to tell you that everything you’ve heard about pressure cooking cheesecakes is wrong. But don’t start typing an angry comment, yet… hear me out!
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1-minute Pressure Cooker Mulled Wine
17 Dec 2017Laura Pazzaglia
A minute under pressure is all it takes to infuse wine with fruit and spices – then serve or keep it warm for a party. Mulled wine is the perfect winter’s drink for a festive party or…
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Infographic: Pressure Cooker Nutritional Information
19 Sep 2017Laura Pazzaglia
The facts on whether pressure cooking is healthy if it destroys nutrients and how cooking under pressure affects nutrition. Scientific research proves that pressure cooking not only preserves...
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22 Jun 2017Laura Pazzaglia
A classic stew that showcases how the pressure cooker can give boundless flavor and tender meat by using few well-chosen ingredients and techniques.
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5 Electric Pressure Cooker Buying Tips + 3 Top Recommendations
11 Mar 2017Laura Pazzaglia
Electric pressure multi cookers are having their moment, and it's a mind-bending task to choose from the flood of literally hundreds of choices available right now. I'm sharing my tips...
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Pressure Cooker Tip: Peel unpeelable Pumpkins!
4 Nov 2016Laura Pazzaglia
When you've got afull-size, ridged, tough-skinned pumpkin on youhands what is the best way to get the pulp out for recipes? With pressure of course! While butternut squashes are easy...
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Infographic: Pressure Cooker Safety Tips!
26 Aug 2016Laura Pazzaglia
Today's pressure cookers are extremely safe but you should followmanufacturer's recommendations. Here are our seven tips to safe pressure cooking. <span aria-label="Continue reading...
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Easy Pressure Cooker Corn on the Cob + Tips!
15 Jul 2016Laura Pazzaglia
Want intensely-flavored corn on the cob with plump kernels waiting to burst open with every bite? Pressure cook it for a fast flavor-packed meal!
Pressure cooking corn is faster than...
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How to Pressure Cook Frozen Meat
12 Jan 2016Laura Pazzaglia
We’ve all got a frozen block of meat tucked away for a rainy day dinner- here’s how to use your pressure cooker’s high-heat prowess to get an edible meal out of a meat icicle.
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3 No-fail Steps to Doubling a Pressure Cooker Recipe
17 Oct 2015Laura Pazzaglia
If you want to make more of a good thing in your pressure cooker, simply doubling the ingredients and cooking time is totally not going to work. Here's what you need to do!
1. Stay...
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Pressure Cooker Tip: Toss Eggplant Cooking Liquid
27 Aug 2015Laura Pazzaglia
While I usually recommend tosave and reuse all of the flavor and vitamin-rich veggie juices, that are naturally squeezed out during pressure cooking, you can safely toss eggplant juice. Here's...
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5 amazing pressure cooker rice and grain tips!
21 Jan 2015Laura Pazzaglia
The pressure cooker can make quick work of tough whole grains and perfectly steam white rice to its full fluffy potential but a few wrong moves can have starch spraying into your kitchen or,...
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Pressure Cooker Opening Methods Explained + Tips!
14 Dec 2014Laura Pazzaglia
There's more than one way to open a pressure cooker and each way has its own effect on what's inside. What might work for a stovetop pressure cooker, might not work for an electric pressure...
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Pressure Cooker Tip: Sling it to lift it!
4 Jul 2014Laura Pazzaglia
It's easy to get a container into the pressure cooker for making desserts or steamed rice cooking, the trouble comes when it's time to get the hot, steamy, slippery container out!...
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Pressure Cooker Tip: Stand-up for Asparagus!
8 Apr 2014Laura Pazzaglia
When you want to steam asparagus, but not cut the stems down to the size of your steamer basket, stand them up! <span aria-label="Continue reading Pressure Cooker Tip: Stand-up for...
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2 Dec 2013Laura Pazzaglia
Unlike pressure cooking on gas, or an electric coil, induction cooking turns the pressure cooker’s base into the heat source – heating only the base of the cooker to cook the food!
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5 Aug 2013Laura Pazzaglia
The pressure cooker can tenderize the most stubborn cut of meat and turn tough chewy fibers into gelatin, but a few wrong moves can turn meat into a shriveled tasteless lump. Here are my do's...
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STOP making these pressure cooking MISTAKES!
26 Feb 2013Laura Pazzaglia
Is your pressure cooked food boring? tasteless? lacking... hip? We've got solutions to help your pressure cooker recipes achieve maximum velocity flavorage!!
6. You bored it to death....
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3 pressure cooker nutrition myths that just won’t go away… ’till now
16 Oct 2012Laura Pazzaglia
UPDATE: Visit our new section on pressure cooker nutrition, too!
We read available scientific literature and even contacted the researchers directly to find the latest data on the pressure...
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Pressure Cooker Tip: Taming Leafy Greens!
15 Feb 2012Laura Pazzaglia
It's tricky to pressure cook large quantities of leafy greens because they can easily overrun the maximum capacity line of your pressure cooker- threatening to clog the primary or safety...
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27 Oct 2011Laura Pazzaglia
Pressure cooking your vegetables can preserve the most flavor, color and vitamins - but a moment of inattention can reduce them to dull pulp. Here are my tips for getting the most out of your...
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3 Dec 2010Laura Pazzaglia
Pressure cookers considerably shorten the cooking time of just about anything – including soups! Here are a few tricks, and coordinating recipes, to get you making soups like a pro –...
