你可能熟悉的一些好处of pressure cooking. After all, it’s the easiest, fastest, most convenient way to cook delicious meals year-round. (And, with these smart new electric models, you no longer need to worry about soup or beans or grains exploding all over your kitchen.) The new electric models automatically pressurize, depressurize, keep food warm and do the work while you walk away and enjoy a completely no-pressure meal situation. It’s that simple

So sit back, pour yourself a pre-dinner beverage and get ready to have your meal prep rocked (in a good way!) These are the top reasons for embracing the electric pressure cooker.

如果您需要急忙在桌子上吃晚饭，但是没有提前准备任何事情，那么高压锅是您的新好朋友。您可以在下午6点用精美的牛肉切成些炖牛肉回家回家。并在晚上7点享用美味，嫩肉的饭菜。

Unlike other cooking methods, whether you’re cooking for one or for a crowd, the cooking time with a pressure cooker doesn’t change. With other methods, cook time needs to be increased as the quantity of food increases. But with pressure cookers, once the pot comes to pressure, the amount of time needed to cook the food stays constant. For example, once the pot has been brought up to pressure, the amount of time needed to cook risotto for two or for eight is exactly the same.

由于高压锅，发生“小晚餐事故”的日子已经一去不复返了。新的电动型号具有多个功能和几个内置备份系统，以确保即使您不在附近，也可以安全烹饪。这些备份功能在烹饪时间结束后会自动释放Steam，但是它们仍然保持餐食温暖，直到您准备好食用。

在液体中烹饪良好的菜肴是高压锅的自然选择，因此炖是一种美味的选择。汤，炖菜和密集的成分，例如土豆，根蔬菜，南瓜，干豆类和朝鲜蓟都很好，它们在高压锅中都很棒 - 它们在不到标准烹饪时间的不到1/3的时间内做饭。也就是说，当您将高压锅中的热量升高时，蔬菜，水果或糖含量高的菜肴易于烧焦。请小心使用trivet和内部碗以使食物从金属底锅中脱离，或者在烹饪之前将这些甜味的物品添加到碗的顶部，以防止燃烧。

The pressure cooker isn’t just for soup. Risotto is a great pressure cooker dish, and desserts are just a button-push away. Once you’ve really mastered your low-pressure dinner plan, try the layering technique (which entails layering several types of food into the cooker at a time. An example of layered cooking is to pour an inch of water in the bottom of the cooker, place quartered potatoes in the water and then set a meatloaf pressed into a steamer basket on the potatoes. Top the steamer basket with vegetables wrapped in foil and you have an entire meal that takes only 13 minutes to cook under pressure.

Canned beanscan be pretty lackluster, and cooking dry beans takes forever on the stove. The slow cooker does this pretty well … but beans tend to get mushy in the slow cooker because they are often overcooked. Beans cooked in the pressure cooker stay whole, tender and unsplit. Tip: If you open the lid of your pressure cooked beans and see they aren’t quite done, you can simply cook them for a few more minutes for perfectly tender beans.

新的电压炊具还有其他几个功能，可从厨房库中消除慢炖锅，几个大汤匙，烤盘等。而且，电压炊具不会在温暖的几个月内加热您的厨房 - 这是整个夏天外出比赛时的好选择（但仍然想参加那个黑豆炸玉米饼派对）。

在高海拔地区烹饪可能很棘手，因为水的沸腾温度下降了。高压锅可能对每次可预测的烹饪时间和完美的餐点有很大的帮助（没有慢炖锅的过度煮熟的性质）。

Adding fresh herbs, tender greens, spinach, arugula or kale to the pressure cooker at the start of cooking will completely destroy the texture and flavor of these ingredients. You can still make a mean salad with whatever you’re cooking under pressure … just assemble it after the pressure cooking is done!

高压锅不惧怕，他们提供的便利性无疑是释放和乐趣。随着您从炉子储蓄的时间，您可能会与配偶一起享用鸡尾酒，与孩子们打牌，或者花很多时间让自己阅读或赶上一天。一旦您了解了基础知识，低压晚餐就在拐角处。