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25 June 2018 - Under Pressure

Pressure Cooking Vegetables

"In pressure cooking vegetables, follow the directions that came with your cooker, but learn to adjust cooking time to suit the quality of vegetable being cooked."


A pressure cooker uses steam from water or broth to increase pressure inside the sealed cooker. The trapped steam increases the temperature. Once the pressured steam is released from the cooker you can safely remove the lid and finish prepping your meal.

The first known pressure cooker was invented in 1679 by a French Physicist.

In 1938, Presto released their pressure cooker with immediate success.
Unfortunately, the first World War brought the need for aluminum to the war effort. A lot of companies couldn't get the aluminum they needed to produce products.

After the war, pressure cookers would make an explosive comeback.
Many manufactures were not making the cookers with consumer safety in mind.
The pressure release valves would get clogged and BOOM!
If it wasn't exploding it was leaking dangerously hot water, which would cause the cooker to create more steam, that would then result in another exploding lid.

Due to the lack of back up safety features, their popularity dwindled.

Today we have the Instant Pot!
It is basically a pressure cooker that costs a lot.

Pressure cookers have been popular in Europe for a long time!
But because of a decade of bad cookers, Americans just didn't use them on account of their bad word of mouth marketing.

Today's pressure cookers are way more advance and safer than ever.

If there ever is an accident, it can usually be contributed to user error.

So be sure to read your manual, follow recipes correctly, and stand back just in case.


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