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...
articles
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about your pressure cooker – from how it works, to how certain ingredients react under pressure, and much more!
-
-
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.
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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.
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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.
-
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!
-
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..
-
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.
-
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!
-
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…
-
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...
-
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...
-
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.
-
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.
-
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!
-
Pressure Cooker Veggie Confession
Sigh… I have a confession to make.Not everyone is going to enjoy…
-
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…
-
5 Electric Pressure Cooker Buying Tips + 3 Top Recommendations
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...
-
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...
-
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?
-
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!
-
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....
-
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
-
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