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sikfankitchen · 1 year

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Chinese sticky rice pearl meatballs 珍珠丸子!

#chinese food #chinese cuisine #chinese meatballs #meatballs #sticky rice meatballs #sticky rice pearl meatballs #steam cooking #mustard greens #easy recipes #recipes #pork meatballs #food #homecooking #foodie #珍珠丸子

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pressurecookers123 · 4 months

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How Do Pressure Cookers Work?

The pressure cooker stands as a testament to both simplicity and innovation. These kitchen staples, renowned for their ability to cook food quickly and efficiently, utilize the principles of high-pressure steam cooking. This article delves into the mechanics of how pressure cookers work, providing a comprehensive understanding of this essential kitchen appliance.

The Basic Principle of a Pressure Cooker

At its core, a pressure cooker is a sealed pot with a valve that controls the steam pressure inside. When water or any liquid inside the cooker is heated, it produces steam. Since the steam cannot escape, it accumulates inside the pot, building up pressure. This increased pressure allows the temperature inside the cooker to rise above the normal boiling point of water, cooking the food faster.

Key Components of a Pressure Cooker

Sealed Lid: The lid of a pressure cooker is designed to create an airtight seal, usually with a rubber or silicone gasket. This seal prevents steam from escaping, thereby building up pressure within the pot.

Pressure Valve: This critical component regulates the pressure inside the pot. When the pressure exceeds a safe level, the valve releases steam to reduce the internal pressure.

Steam Release Mechanism: Most modern pressure cookers have a mechanism for manually releasing steam, allowing the pressure to decrease before opening the lid.

Cooking Pot: The pot itself is typically made of stainless steel or aluminum and is designed to evenly distribute heat.

The Science of High-Pressure Cooking

When the liquid inside a pressure cooker turns into steam, its volume increases, creating pressure in the enclosed space. This pressure has two major effects:

Increased Boiling Point: Under pressure, the boiling point of water increases. In a standard pressure cooker, the boiling point can rise from 100°C (212°F) to as high as 121°C (250°F). This higher temperature cooks food faster.

Forced Moisture into Food: The high pressure forces moisture and heat into the food, which can result in quicker and more even cooking, especially for tougher cuts of meat or hard legumes.

Advantages of Pressure Cooking

Time Efficiency: Foods cook up to 70% faster in a pressure cooker, making it an excellent tool for quick meal preparation.

Energy Saving: Due to reduced cooking times, pressure cookers consume less energy compared to conventional cooking methods.

Nutrient Retention: The shorter cooking time and reduced exposure to heat help preserve more nutrients in the food.

Versatility: Pressure cookers can be used for a wide range of recipes, including soups, stews, and even desserts.

Safety Features in Modern Pressure Cookers

Modern pressure cookers are equipped with multiple safety features, such as:

Locking Lid: Prevents the lid from being opened while there is still pressure inside the cooker.

Pressure Regulator: Maintains the pressure at a safe level.

Vent Pipe: Releases excess steam in case the pressure valve becomes blocked.

Tips for Using a Pressure Cooker

Do Not Overfill: To prevent clogging of the valves, fill the cooker no more than two-thirds full.

Use Enough Liquid: Always use sufficient liquid to generate steam.

Regulate Heat: Once the cooker reaches the desired pressure, lower the heat to maintain pressure without exceeding it.

Natural Release Method: Allow the cooker to cool down naturally to release pressure, especially for dishes that foam and froth.

The pressure cooker is an ingenious culinary invention that capitalizes on the simple science of high-pressure steam cooking. By understanding the mechanics behind it, users can harness its full potential to prepare meals that are not just faster and more energy-efficient, but also healthier due to better nutrient retention. Whether you are a seasoned chef or a home cook, a pressure cooker can be a valuable addition to your kitchen arsenal, bringing both efficiency and flavor to your cooking.

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#Pressure cookers #high-pressure cooking #kitchen appliances #cooking technology #steam cooking #efficient cooking

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ninja-combi · 8 months

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I've been loving my new Combi. The only problem is that I want to use it every night, but I have a lot of leftovers that need to be eaten. So tonight I tried something. I took a piece of leftover salmon, chicken and a mound of pumpkin pasta and arranged them on the upper tray.

I put a cup of water in the bottom pan and put the crisping tray in. On top of the crisping tray I put some fresh asparagus.

I used the steam feature and set it for 8 min. The steam method reheated the meal very well and cooked the asparagus at the same time. I was most impressed with the pasta. It came out very nice and rejuvenated it after being in the fridge for a day or two.

The meat was moist. The crunchy crust on the salmon was not too crunchy anymore as I expected, but it was still good. Next time I would probably go for 10 min. The asparagus was very thin. I think if it were thicker it might have taken longer to cook.

One thing to be careful of - make sure the food you put on the upper tray is lying flat. When I first put the pasta on the tray I stacked it a little high and when I went to slide the rack in, the pasta was hitting the top of the machine.

So now on nights I'm not cooking a meal, I can still get my Combi fix.

Take a look at the video below and you can see the steam coming off the reheated food.

#ninja combi #kitchen gadgets #tips #steam cooking #reheating

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ssalballoon · 5 months

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ljósálfr gale and dökkálfr astarion! 🦋🥀 bringers of dreams and nightmares

based on the hit mobile game fire emblem heroes. download it for free today! (Please Do Not)

a lot of notes on the designs under the cut, i had so much fun with these!

gale

- the eyes on the wings are mystra's

- the colors are based on his aurora stargazing scene

- he's based on the dream-king freyr, who takes human children in unfortunate circumstances and turns them into fairies that become "their most extraordinary selves" but can never return home. he feels guilty for intervening in their fates, but the ends justify the means to grow the power of his realm :-) he mourns the fact that humans stop dreaming (as in losing their ambitions) as they grow older

(feel like this is the type of thing god gale who's slowly becoming more like mystra would do and convince himself nooo it's completely ethical i'm being benevolent actually)

astarion

- the eyes on the yellow wings are cazador's

- one set of wings are yellow inspired by his longing for the sun

- the flowers are the same flowers on his grave, the garden star-of-Bethlehem

- he's based on the character plumeria, who's the bringer of lustful dreams and is disgusted by the humans who have such indecent desires. (she's one of the humans transformed/kidnapped into a fairy) she puts up a sensual front but hates the way people leer at her. nonetheless she must deliver those vulgar desires as dreams, doing a job she hates :-) all she wants is true compassionate love removed from lust... is this ringing a bell

please don't let any of this trick you into believing feh has a good story. but also expect more feh x bg3 from me in the future lol

#i bestow my favourite characters with fairy design. thank you yoshiku for cooking these designs #baldur's gate 3 #gale dekarios #bg3 #gale of waterdeep #astarion #astarion ancunin #bg3 fanart #my art #bloodweave #can i tag #feh #fire emblem heroes #i don't feel like polishing these also they're pretty old now so i've run out of steam (and i have no time...)#bg3 spoilers #under the cut just in case!

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butteryplanet · 1 year

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kitchen ghosts

#food #sweet #sugar #sifter #gif #cinemagraph #kitchen ghosts #apples #breakfast #apple fritters #cozy #witch #aesthetic #steam #tea #cooking #magic #pancakes

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icarusfellintomyarms · 1 year

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I bought the lekue steam case again (lost the other one I guess) and omfggggg it makes cooking so easy. Just had the juiciest melt in your mouthiest chicken breast, perfectly cooked through, and it only took 3 minutes and 15 seconds to cook!!!

Literally the hardest part was packing the chicken breasts into little baggies, and seasoning it. It's about 2 minutes for 4 oz of chicken breasts (technically the manual says thighs, but in a recipe a chicken breast is nuked for 3 min), and mine was just under 8, like 7.5? The other chicken breasts are a bit bigger, so I might have to cut or smash them.

3 minutes might've been fine, but for some reason I can't remember, I popped it in for 2:45, chicken was a bit raw in the middle. Popped it in for a minute, but was worried it was going to overcook, so I stopped at 30 secs, and it was done. Perfect. Next time I'll stick with 3 minutes uninterrupted, and see how that goes.

My apartment smells so good!!! It also cooks veggies, so I'm excited to try that, too.

It's a bitch to clean, just cause how floppy it is, but I also have a full sink, so it might be easier if I could put it down.

I def recommend it for people who have a hard time cooking! It's a bit pricey, but a great investment. The cookbook is probably pirateable!

#adhd #lekue #steam cooking #cooking #food #adhd food

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daily-deliciousness · 11 months

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Korean chicken bao

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hoppips · 8 days

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portrait of the duelist 🌹⚔️ // (study of portrait of the artist by antonie van steenwinckel)

#utena tenjou #anthy himemiya #revolutionary girl utena #utena #utenanthy #grey's art #man i wish i didnt lose steam on this because i feel like i was cooking w the idea but alas #anyway reuses the same joke from twitter but: its mementing absolute mori

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blacktabbygames · 5 months

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The Steam Winter Sale is upon us, and both Slay the Princess and Scarlet Hollow are on sale! We also have a bundle with both games that stacks a 15% discount on whatever sale is already going on. So you can pick both up at once for just under $30, or finish the bundle to still get that extra discount if you already own one.

While we're here I'd love to also take a moment to plug some other bundles we're in. We don't do a lot of bundles with other studios, and all of the titles we bundle with are personally vetted by us, your friendly neighborhood devs, as Good Video Games. All of these bundles are piecemeal, so if you already own one or more games in them, you can still get the extra discount on those other titles.

First up is the Cartoonists Turned Game Devs bundle, which has both Scarlet Hollow as well as Meredith Gran's deeply, deeply underrated Perfect Tides. Perfect Tides is one of my favorite narrative games of all time, so please do yourself a favor and pick it up if you haven't already!

Next up is the World-Ending Women bundle, which has both Slay the Princess and the fantastic El Paso, Elsewhere, a Max Payne-inspired supernatural shooter where you have to stop your vampire ex-girlfriend from ending the world. It's written by Xalavier Nelson Jr, who you might know from such wonderfully charming titles as Hypnospace Outlaw and An Airport for Aliens Currently Run By Dogs.

Last but not least is Horrors of the Heart, which has Scarlet Hollow and two other dating sims: the fully-voice acted and very funny Lovecraftian dating sim Sucker for Love, and normal cute dating sim Cooking Companions where nothing bad ever happens.

HAPPY shopping, and hope y'all play some fun games for the holidays :D

#slay the princess #scarlet hollow #el paso elsewhere #cooking companions #sucker for love #perfect tides #indie games #visual novel #interactive fiction #horror #horror games #narrative design #steam winter sale

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nottheeconomy · 5 months

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Let him cook!!!

#danganronpa #drv3 #kokichi ouma #shuichi saihara #saiouma #oumasai #I’m spreading the chef ouma agenda #the fact that my family thinks of Ouma as a chef when they saw his clothes #may or may not be inspired by my own culinary prowess #if I follow the steamed hams skit then ouma didn’t even make those hams #but it’s also funnier if he actually CAN cook something good #just that it comes at the cost of the whole kitchen hahahahahahha #the economy is producing

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black-and-yellow · 1 month

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Lost

(minus grain)

#it's HAM don't freak out he's just cooking #let him cook #the image of Loudspeaker preparing meat of some kind in some grimy lair floats around in my mind and every so often resurfaces for air.#plays out like that montage of Hannibal Lecter cooking but without the criminal undertones #well without Those criminal undertones #think it sprouted from that one line where Mic is like 'yeah im gonna find out who did this and make their guts into soup'#and I was like 'oh he would make some nasty nasty meats huh'#bnha #mha #loudspeaker au #present mic #hizashi yamada #villain!mic #i hate all asmr apart from bugs and offal #if someone is eating a pizza into a microphone my stomach doth protest. But if theyre crunching down on a lil cricket? maybe a bit of liver #okayyy. yum yum yummy!#anyway play Psychopomp it's free on Steam #might make another games recommendation post sometime

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hychlorions · 1 year

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obligatory "shet ang inet"

#klapollo #klavier gavin #apollo justice #ace attorney #.png #there we go :))#anyway. yeah those aren't apollo's shades on his shirt. etc etc #crabs are so fun to cook #not so fun to eat though #i've always wanted to draw klapollo cooking crabs<3 #but it's fun to make them race before you steam them #yeargh #or boil actually #? how are crabs cooked #all i know is one person does the cooking and the other person messes around

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niftyrecipe · 1 year

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Gua Bao (Pork Belly Bao Buns)

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butteryplanet · 1 year

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cinemagraph artist

#gif #cinemagraph #kitchen ghosts #steam #soup #cooking #food #potato #autumn #winter #aesthetic #cozy

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amphibianaday · 10 months

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day 1349

#amphibian #frog #uh #steamed buns #here's a short list of questionable ideas: 1. decide to make bao buns for dinner on a workday #2. “well i really like the leftovers what if i double the recipe?”#<- spent 5 HOURS cooking yesterday #on the plus side the fridge and freezer are full of the best leftovers of all time

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leeches-drawer · 4 months

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hello Kieran nation. I don't have much finished work to offer yet thanks to it being finals season BUT. I have a few sketches so take these as an offering

#pokemon #pokemon kieran #kieran pokemon #pokemon art #im soooooo normal about him. normal normal normal #i have yet to make Extremely angsty art with him but oh boy is it cooking #stewing and steaming around in my brain #pokemon dlc #pokemon sv #pokemon the indigo disk #pokemon sv epilogue

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