This weekend, my mom gave us her pressure cooker she never uses. It is the greatest thing in the universe! I don't know why people aren't constantly walking around talking about how great pressure cookers are. Over my lifetime, it will save me DAYS of time that I would be wasting sitting around waiting for beans to cook. Maybe weeks even. (I am determined to live to be at least 100.)
Today I turned dry beans into soft beans for my world famous chili in just 12 minutes! 12 minutes, people! That would normally take me 4 HOURS. I'm only just now thinking about the energy savings here too - now I only have to waste enough energy to have a pot on simmer for 12 minutes, rather than 4 hours. Miraculous.
You can cook basically anything in one of these beauties. Beans, legumes, grains, vegetables, meat, fish. It is insanity. Although, I don't think I'd use mine to cook vegetables, except root vegetables, because veggies only take a few minutes to steam or saute anyway, and I would be scared of over-cooking them.
This is the site I used to figure out how long to cook the beans for: http://missvickie.com. It looks all messed up, but that should be forgiven because it has all the info you will ever need to cook under pressure. (I didn't make that up.) It has cook times and recipes for everything, plus basic info - which was essential for me because I don't have the instructions and I was very worried that I was going to blow something up.
Get one now!
Today I turned dry beans into soft beans for my world famous chili in just 12 minutes! 12 minutes, people! That would normally take me 4 HOURS. I'm only just now thinking about the energy savings here too - now I only have to waste enough energy to have a pot on simmer for 12 minutes, rather than 4 hours. Miraculous.
You can cook basically anything in one of these beauties. Beans, legumes, grains, vegetables, meat, fish. It is insanity. Although, I don't think I'd use mine to cook vegetables, except root vegetables, because veggies only take a few minutes to steam or saute anyway, and I would be scared of over-cooking them.
This is the site I used to figure out how long to cook the beans for: http://missvickie.com. It looks all messed up, but that should be forgiven because it has all the info you will ever need to cook under pressure. (I didn't make that up.) It has cook times and recipes for everything, plus basic info - which was essential for me because I don't have the instructions and I was very worried that I was going to blow something up.
Get one now!
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that thing truly does rule. we were living in the dark ages before it.
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