
Welcome to Pressure Cooking School!
Free video series that will teach you how to use the pressure cooker!
Get expert tips, advice, and guidance on making pressure cooker recipes. We're not going to leave you to...

50+ Easy Pressure Cooker Recipes
Here are our easiest pressure cooker recipes - suitable for Instant Pot, electric pressure cookers and stove-top pressure cookers. What makes them easy? They only require minimal prep,...

19+ PARTY Pressure Cooker Recipes!
Ready to party?!? Here's our collection of recipes that can be whipped up to feed a large crowd in no time!

PREVIEW: Zavor’s LUX Multicooker – look familiar?
If this cooker looks a little familiar… there’s a reason why. Although Zavor is a brand new company, it’s founders were actually the people behind…

Consumer Alert: Don’t Pressure Cook With Liquor & Other Recipes for Disaster
Don’t make the popular “pressure cooker” or “Instant Pot” vanilla extract using vodka and vanilla beans or follow any other recipes that recommend using liquor under pressure – these recipes could result in injury and fire. Evaporating alcohol is not only flammable but it could combust unexpectedly.

30+ Pressure Cooker One Pot Meals
More than 30 ideas to get dinner on the table with just your pressure cooker - easy cook and easy clean-up!

Pressure Cooker Eggplant and Olive Spread
I open all of my pressure cooker demos and classes making this dip because this recipe showcases how quickly and easily the stubborn eggplant (which takes, forever to become tender) can be prepared.

COMPARISON GUIDE: Which Instant Pot is right for you? (includes NOVA Plus and VIVA)
As the former presenter in Instant Pot's product videos, I'm often asked by readers which Instant Pot they should get. While most manufacturers retire an older model and only sell the newer...

Large Batch Tomato Sauce -Pressure Cook 6 Pounds at Once!
Here's an easy and delicious way to get rid of 6 pounds of tomatoes in one fell swoop - you're going to be making LOTS of sauce.
Once I figured out...

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...

Can Pressure Cooking Tomatoes and other Foods Reduce Pesticide Residue?!?
While anyone following this nutritional series might already be aware of the pressure cooker's amazing nutritional conservation and magnification prowess there is a little something extra that the...

UPDATE! Instant Pot MINI Pressure Cooking Times Added
We have updated the time chart to include the pressure cooking times for the Instant Pot Mini, which operates at a lower pressure than most other electric pressure cookers - while this is not a...

Easy Butter Chicken – From Frozen Chicken Breast!
Juicy, tender and succulent chicken breast bathed in a thick flavorful sauce that's easy to make in the pressure cooker?!?! Believe it!
It's not easy to get good results frozen (or even...

Easy Quinoa Freckled Rice – Pressure Cooker Side
Here's a cute variation from the standard plain 'ol white rice - in addition to looking cute it has a slightly nuttier flavor. A perfect fluffy bed to support your favorite veggie or meat...

Mini Mania: Shrink Pressure Cooker Recipes for the Instant Pot MINI
This nearly pocket-sized 3-quart cooker is small and cute but cooking in a world of recipes written for larger pressure cookers is definitely a challenge! Here's how to adjust larger recipes, and...

Instant Pot MINI Recipes
Hip recipes that will fit in the 3-quart Instant Pot MINI electric pressure cooker without any changes!

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...

20+ Pressure Cooker & Instant Pot BBQ Party Recipes!
Want to have fun at your own barbecue party?!? Then, use our make-ahead pressure cooker recipes so you can join the party.

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.

Summer Cherry Tomato Chicken Cacciatore
Here's a quick and easy recipe for the summer - there's no prep, other than throwing the ingredients together and a couple of smashes - no chopping. So put that cutting board and knife away,...

VIDEO: Zucchini & Sun-dried Tomato Sorgotto (Sorghum Risotto)
The "grains" are springy, the zucchini...

Pressure Cooker Horchata – Mexican Sweet Rice Drink
Although rice is usually soaked, the pressure cooker hurries the process along so that you can get in 1 minute what would ordinarily take 8 hours. This drink is refreshing, lightly sweetened with...

New Video: Pressure Cooker Polenta – the right way! ; )
Here's how to COOK and SLICE polenta in the pressure cooker, instant pot, or any pressure pot. You can do it!

Was hip polenta pilfered or are five similarities plus a tricky ingredient just a coincidence?
I contacted Bon Appetit via Twitter and email for an explanation or credit, but they replied with sassy insults, instead.

Details Emerge about Instant Pot’s Next Model – the MAX!
UPDATED: More details on "the stirring" feature are revealed.
Instant Pot's gave a peek of their upcoming pressure cooker model at pre-International Housewares Show news conference in...

Fagor America Closes Shop As Parent Company’s Struggles End
Fagor America will be shutting down operations over the next few months after its parent company in Spain announced it would close, Fagor America's CEO Patricio Barriga confirmed to hip pressure...

It’s Official: Instant Pot GEM Recalled
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a recall for Instant Pot GEM non-pressure multi-cookers, yesterday. The voluntary recall comes two weeks after Hip Pressure Cooking first...

SPICY & FRESH: North African-Inspired Lentil and Spinach Soup
This Ethiopian-style pressure cooker soup adds all of the spices at the beginning of the recipe to flavor the lentils from the inside out (can't get that from a can ; ). Fresh baby...

Beware of Unexpected Food Eruptions AFTER Pressure Lid is Removed
There is a spate of Facebook posts making the rounds from people using varying brands of stove top and electric pressure cookers, detailing multiple accidents where the cook is burned by a violent...

Spark Mushroom’s Antioxidant SUPER-POWERS with Pressure!
Recent research reveals that some varieties of mushrooms, when pressure-cooked, unleash an exponential increase of flavonoids and vitamin C compared to raw. How is this even possible given that most foods lose their nutrients when cooked?!?