Recipe involving pressure cooker

if you have a heavy pot and an oven or stovetop you’ll accomplish the bean recipe it will just take a lot longer

Just soak the beans overnight and cook in a pot. Pressure cooker just speeds up the cooking process.

yeah you don't need pressure cooker baw

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I have a white bean recipe that I’ve been wanting to attempt, but the recipe calls for a pressure cooker, which I do not have.

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Just soak the dry beans from 4 hours to overnight, then simmer as others have said. You may have to add water or stock a couple of times until the beans get tender.

A pressure cooker traps steam creating pressure inside the pot. The relief valve, or shaker keeps it from over-pressure. The higher pressure raises the boiling point of water to about 250F so you can cook faster.

Pressure cooker dry beans have a different appearance to me. It looks like they exploded.

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Not exactly. I'm Indian by origin too That's how we always cooked in India.

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Get a Kuhn Rikon pressure cooker instead of a countertop plug-in version.

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Kenji and the NY Times convinced me that was the way to go, but it was a mistake for me. The Kuhn Rikon does get to higher pressure, but I spent a lot of time monitoring it and dialing in the stove-burner flame to get the pressure just right. It cost more than an electric InstantPot, which is a set it and forget it device.

I eventually bought an InstantPot, never used the Kuhn Rikon again, and sold it at an estate sale at a deep discount after it sat two days with no interest.

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The Kuhn Rikon does get to higher pressure, but I spent a lot of time monitoring it and dialing in the stove-burner flame to get the pressure just right.

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Agree. I think you need an induction plate for the mechanical type pressure cookers, so you can dial in the precise temp that works. Stovetop electric or gas is really difficult.