One of the basic needs of the civilized human being is definitely cooking. While an occasional sushi or oyster salad is great, humans still need a hot, tasty and great looking cooked meal. In fact, today cooking involves a multi-billion industry where constant research is probing at ways for faster and tastier ways to cook food.
Pressure Cooking Is Faster and Healthier Than Any Other Method of Cooking Today
Is this a valid statement or can it be challenged by the non-believers? Let us see what the benefits of pressure cooking are before we decide on who is correct.
1. Nutrition - Since the pressure cooking involves shorter cooking time, less water and hermetically closed container, the nutrition value of the food is maintained better than any other usual methods of cooking.
2. Time - The pressure cooking uses the power of steam to cook the food. Steam can produce much higher heat inside the cooker, since it is closed airtight. In the process the food is cooked very fast; when measured, it was found that the pressure cooking can be almost 70 percent faster than ordinary cooking methods
3. Fuel/ energy - In today's world where the paradigm is shifting towards saving the world from total destruction through depletion of natural resource for profit; the pressure-cooking is the need of the day. The pressure cooker is used today to save energy and fuel. It is an excellent tool to save cooking fuel.
4. Great atmosphere - the fact pressure cooking does not allow any steam outside the cooker until it is totally filled with the vapors. When the pressure cooker is filled to the brim, it releases the excess steam through the vent situated in the middle top of the pressure cooker. In this way, the kitchen will be cooler and greater looking because there is less steam and smell of food invading the atmosphere.
5. Easy to cook - since the pressure cooker uses higher temperature to cook, the meat or any tough matter (even an old one) will be cooked with ease. Hence, it is easier to cook with the pressure cooker.
In other words, pressure cooking is great because it delivers the most important features necessary while cooking a meal : nutrition, time-saving, energy-saving, ambiance-saving - besides the fact that it is extremely convenient whereby you can saut, deep fry, make soups and other exotic dishes. It feels like I stumbled upon a god mine.
