Pressure Cooker Overview
Pressure cookers, everybody is well familiar with pressure cookers, used in every kitchen; it is one of the most widely used utensils. Especially in the Asian region, it can be easily found in every kitchen. It is a sealed vessel utensil used for cooking the food under high steam pressure.
History
The first pressure cooker was made and used by a famous French Physicist back in 1679; he referred this as a Steam Digester. It was well known for his work on steam engines, thus relating his field, he came up with the idea of Steam Digester, and Pressure Cooker came into existence. This utensil used steam pressure to increase the boiling point of the water.
By 1864, pressure cookers, made from iron, were being manufactured worldwide. By the 1920s, people were becoming more aware of the benefits of using pressure cookers as a utensil that could cook food quickly with relatively less effort.
Properties
Keeping in mind that a pressure cooker can cook food fast, it has some conditions attached as well. The foods that have liquid content in them can be cooked faster than normally used utensils as the liquid content helps in the buildup of the steam content inside a pressure cooker. Foods cooked with the help of water, wine, broth, and stock, etc. are good examples of how a pressure cooker can work effectively.
Pressure cookers come in several sizes and volume containers. They are either electric, mostly used in the western parts of the world i.e., Europe, the U.S, etc. the manual pressure cookers are mostly used in Asian cuisine and regions.
The pressure cookers come with various accessories, talking about the regular ones, they come with rubber seals, handles, steamer baskets, and on-top metal weight that can be used to regulate the steam pressure indie the pressure cooker. For the electronic ones, accessories like the metal baskets made out of aluminum, thermometers, and spring weights to regulating the steam pressure as desired can easily be found to be used.
Uses as a culinary utensil
Pressure cookers can be used to prepare a wide variety of foods. The rice, when cooked inside the pressure cooker, can be prepared faster from regular methods, and the results are pretty good as the rice cooks evenly, it comes out to be fluffy and flavorful. The beans, grains, chickpeas, etc. can be cooked within a matter of minutes. Use of the pressure cooker when it comes to tenderizing the meat has always had value as the pressurized steam enforced into the meaty enables it to get more moisture and turn out to be very tender, juicy, and flavorful.
Types
When it comes to the market, it always has various varieties and brands for the use. Some of the famous pressure cookers are
Magefesa Practika Plus
The Magefesa Practika Plus is a pressure cooker that can be used on any type of cooking range. The price of this pressure cooker makes it a great choice for the users, and it offers two pressure ranges to be selected, i.e., 9 PSI and 15 PSI, suitable pressure can be selected and used. This selectable pressure feature allows the user to cook food faster and efficiently than the regular pressure cookers.
Cuisinart CPC-600
The Cuisinart CPC-600 is an electronic pressure cooker. This pressure cooker offers an LED display that shows the remaining cooking time that makes it easy for the user to know about the remaining time for their food to be prepared. The status indicator lights on the front below the LED display makes it easy to know when exactly the food is ready and prepared.
Instant Pot Smart 8 in 1.
The Instant Pot Smart 8 in 1 is a pressure cooker equipped with technological features. It can be controlled with mobile phone connectivity. The features include controlling the temperature, cooking time via a mobile app; this versatile option makes it a great product who love innovation in their everyday life. As it is an electronic pressure cooker, it doesn’t dissipate heat like the manual pressure cookers, and it doesn’t make the kitchen’s temperature excessively hot. Equipped with the automatic keep-warm function, Handy steaming rack, and the 13 one-touch programs and priced at only 138 US dollars, this is one very great priced value pressure cooker.
Pros and cons
Pressure cookers allow the user with great accessibility to cooking ranges and make the cooking time short and do it all with less effort.
When not used properly with proper instructions, it can be hazardous as well as there are many cases around the world of the pressure cookers exploding because they were not regulated with add-on metal weights properly or closed tightly, and excess pressure of steam made it an accident to happen.
Conclusion
No doubt that with the pressure cookers have made great ease in the industry, still, everything that is made for the ease should always be used with care to get the best out of it.