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Pressure Cook Tomato-Based Recipes Like a Pro!
Does your pressure cooker scorch and burn at the thought 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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The Pressure Cooker Buying Guide
Buying a pressure cooker is an investment in both money and time that will quickly be repaid in health and savings. Pressure cookers have changed quite a bit in the last few years so there...
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Pressure Canning Guide & FAQ: put ’em up! (update)
Although pressure cooking and pressure canning both use the power of pressure – the equipment and procedures are quite different. With a little investment in time, you can use top-quality ingredients to make your own convenience foods.
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Sweet Desserts – Pressure Cooking School
It’s time to get sweet! We’re going to make a Mascarpone Cheesecake and lava mug cake. But first, we’re going to discuss what containers to cook those desserts in, how their size and shape affect the cooking time, and I’m going to give you the low-down on how baking powder reacts under pressure.
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Pressure Cooker Heat-safe Containers: Materials & Shapes
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
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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Mascarpone, Ricotta, Chocolate Chip Cheesecake – pressure cooker recipe
Here’s a pressure cooker cheesecake recipe inspired by my friend and fellow karate classmate, Susanna – it’s a one-of-a-kind cheesecake featuring both ricotta and mascarpone cheese – sorry Philly, I’ll whip you into a cheesecake next time.
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Does pressure cooker size matter? Of course!
For home cooks that are just looking to make dinner, and not restaurant-quantity stock: bigger is not better. We recommend getting the smallest pressure cooker to fit your needs...
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Marvelous Meats – Pressure Cooking School
I’ll reveal four secrets to marvelous pressure cooker meats and share my best tips while we make two recipes: a savory Spiced Beef Stew and an easy Chicken Cacciatore.
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Vivid Veggies & Opening Methods- Pressure Cooking School
We’re going to steam some broccoli and then I’m going to show you a technique that will turn any package of frozen veggies into a delicious stew. But wait… there’s more!
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Pressure Cooker Veggie Confession
Sigh… I have a confession to make.Not everyone is going to enjoy…
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Pressure Cooker Opening Methods – Pressure Cooking School
How you open the pressure cooker is actually an important part of the recipe. Let’s review the four pressure cooker opening methods and…
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Bean Essentials – Pressure Cooking School
Today, we're pressure cooking beans! We'll discuss the difference between pressure cooking beans straight from dry, versus soaked. I will show you a technique on how to quick-soak...
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Pressure Cooking DRY versus SOAKED Beans
Here’s a bowl of red kidney beans that I took right out of the package and put in the pressure cooker. Do you see how unevenly cooked they are?
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Long-soaking and Quick-soaking beans in the Pressure Cooker
Let me show you two ways to soak beans. The first one is the traditional overnight soak, and the second one only takes twelve minutes – that’s the quick-soak!
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Rice Basics – Pressure Cooking School
Today we're going to use the pressure cooker as a rice cooker. We're going to make two recipes. First, a perfectly steamed brown rice and second, a super simple Basmati Confetti Rice....
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Turn Your Pressure Cooker Into a Rice Cooker!
Ok, are you ready for this? The key to perfectly cooked rice in the pressure cooker is… to
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Pressure Cooker Steamed Brown Rice
This is a pretty simple recipe that showcases how the pressure cooker’s steam can make perfect grains of fluffy rice – even brown rice! As we mentioned earlier
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Add Veggies to Pressure Cooker Rice – without making a big mess!
At the beginning of this lesson, I mentioned how if you add vegetables to your perfect pressure cooker rice you might get a mess – let me explain why.
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Pressure Cooker Confetti Basmati Rice Recipe
This recipe shows you how to add vegetables to any pressure cooker rice dish but counting some of the vegetables as the cooking liquid. The exceptions
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The First Recipe – Pressure Cooking School
Today we're going to make our first pressure cooker recipe: a delicious Garlic Cauliflower Potato Mash - don't worry, it's easy! We're also going to discuss your pressure cooker's...
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The Pressure Cooker’s Minimum Liquid Requirement
The minimum liquid requirement is the least amount of liquid your pressure cooker needs to create enough steam to build and maintain pressure. To pressure cook!
Now, the amount will...
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Getting Acquainted – Pressure Cooking School
Today we're going to get acquainted with the pressure cooker. We're going to learn all about the pressure cooker parts and what they do, the safety systems and we're also going to put...
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The Pressure Cooker’s Parts – Pressure Cooking School
The pressure cooker has three major parts:
- The lid - where the valves and most of the safety systems reside;
- The base - where there is the logic and the heating;...
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The Pressure Cooker’s Safety Systems – Pressure Cooking School
We described each part of the pressure cooker earlier, and detailed how each plays a role in pressure cooker safety as well.
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Pressure Cooker Hot Water Test- Pressure Cooking School
We’re going to do a “Hot Water Test” – basically, we’re pressure cooking water. It’s a great way to see how the pressure cooker reaches pressure, maintains pressure and releases pressure.
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How The Pressure Cooker Works – Pressure Cooking School
Let’s walk through a Hot Water Test step-by-step so that you can see what to expect. Meanwhile, I’ll explain what’s going on inside the pressure cooker.
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50+ Pressure Cooker Tips & Tricks!
The biggest collection of pressure cooker tips, ever! We’re always adding new tips, so come visit us often to see the latest information on getting the most from your pressure cooker.
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How to Pressure Cook Frozen Meat
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.