Pressure cooking has changed a lot lately — there is a whole new generation of pressure cookers that are said to be foolproof. No more stories of the canner exploding and spewing its contents around the kitchen! If you are a good bit younger than I am, maybe you never even heard those stories.

Why use pressure cookers? They can cook food faster and thus save not only time but fuel. Beans, a mainstay of many simple food systems, are much tastier and easier to digest if they are thoroughly cooked, and this is where a pressure cooker  excels. You can even cook beans in a pressure cooker without soaking them for hours beforehand. Tough cuts of meat become very tender in a pressure cooker too. Read the rest >>>