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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…
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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.
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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Instant Pot MINI Recipes
Hip recipes that will fit in the 3-quart Instant Pot MINI electric pressure cooker without any changes!
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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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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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?!?
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Consumer Alert: Max. Fill Lines Too High for Pressure Programs
A large number of multi cookers with pressure programs have an inner bowl with the "max/full" line at a level that is unsafe for pressure cooking.
Multi cookers are electric pressure...
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Alert: Instant Pot GEM No-pressure Multicookers Overheating, Melting Base
Instant Pot made a public post on their Facebook group, regarding a small number of their non-pressure multicookers and how they can overheat, melting the plastic base of the unit. The post lists...
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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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Pressure Cooker Cheesecake DO’s and DON’Ts
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
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
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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Broccoli & Pressure: the untold story of the better cooking method
Interesting tidbits including data that’s been hidden by omission from just about anyone who has cited this study (including myself) to promote the nutritional benefits of pressure cooking.
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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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Tender Pressure Cooked Spiced Beef Stew & Meat Tips
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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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!