Thursday 21 March 2013

Pressure Cooker: Wonder Vessel for Bachelors

I am back to my favorite cooking corner with loads of mouth watering recipes. Well most of my friends stay away from their family for work and study. They complain that they hardly have any time to cook and need to rely on outside junk food. This affects their health badly and turns out to be pocket pinching. So, this time I will share some bachelor cooking tips in wonder vessel-the pressure cooker.

I remember this huge Wholesale Pressure Cookers at my ancestral home in which my grandma would cook sambhar and tender mutton curry. This was simply amazing and sure enough to tickle your taste buds with that characterized home cooked food aroma. Pressure cooker was once considered to be a military cooking tool and for housewives that spent hours cooking for the family. But today this humble cooking utensil is not only regarded as a wonder worker but helps you to save time.

Few years back there were few families that used pressure cookers. But the dim image of pressure cooker is changing and it is one of the most used cooking vessels at homes and restaurant kitchens. If you are die hard foodie then you will agree that pressure cookers are perfect for making stock and it helps to extract more flavors than primary cooking utensils. You can readily keep the dish in the vessel which will turn it into a rich creamy liquid. My love for pressure cooker started last Christmas when I decided to cook stir-free risotto. Within few minutes you can cook sublime short ribs that are fork tender and not much mushy with meat pieces bathed in broth.

According to Pressure Cooker Manufacturer the science behind this vessel is pretty simple. It increases the boiling point of water because it is sealed inside a strong pot and can heat up to 250 degree F before starting to boil. The old fashioned pressure cookers were made up of pretty simple valves and had of reputation of potential disaster. But the modern ones have locking handles, gaskets on outside and pressure releases valves so that they would not explode from outside. As long as you follow the instruction carefully there is nothing to be afraid of using it. Till then all the best and enjoy cooking! Share your bachelor cooking recipes in pressure cooker here.

Tuesday 19 March 2013

Common and Useful Kitchen Utensils


Some might call them gadgets, while others utensils and even applications. Whatever equipment you use, you can turn your kitchen into multitasking culinary workspace. Here are some common and useful kitchen utensils. Pressure cooker is the process of cooking food using water or any other liquid in closed vessel. This does not allow the passage of air or liquids below a pre-set pressure. This not only helps to cook food faster than other conventional methods but also saves energy.

Pressure cookers heat the food quickly due to internal pressure which is caused due to boiling liquid. This gives rise to saturated steam which permeates and bombards the food. The higher water vapor transfers more heat rapidly when compared to dry air which helps the food to cook faster. This cooking vessel allows the food to be cooked in humidity and at higher temperature than the other steaming and conventional boiling methods.

Many homemakers will agree that a good quality stainless steel  Pressure Cooker Manufacturer is a long term investment which is sure to last for some 20-25 years. Most of them use their pressure cookers everyday because it is one of the best cooking styles to serve healthy, nutritious and home cooked meals to your family. In this way you can also get out of the kitchen fast and no need to go for pre-packed dinners, junk food or expensive fast food that have high fat, salt, chemicals and unwanted additives.

Speaking about frying pans, it is a flat-bottomed pan which is basically used for frying, browning or searing food. Typically it is about 200 to 300 mm in diameter with relatively low sides and that flare outside with a long handle and no lid. The large pans will have a small grab handle opposite to the main handle. Usually a pan with similar dimension but has vertical sides and usually with a lid which is called sautÕ pan. It almost resembles a frying pan which is designated to lower heat cooking methods. You can get them from a reputed fry pan supplier store or order online.

Again teapot is a common sight at our kitchen which is vessel used for steeping tea leaves or any herbal mix in boiling or near to boiling water. It is used for serving the resulting infusion which is known as tea. Today the existence of this humble teapot is under threat due to growing number of tea bag users. According to a reputed  teapot manufacturer , for some it is a civilized habit and way of bonding with your friends and family.

It represents a sound equation to an answer how tea can be drunk effectively and economically. Culturally it reminds us that tea drinking is almost a ritual which should be done together. It would not be wrong to say that a cup of team is a British way of life. Nowadays people have just acquired a new kind of metal teapot which is insulated to keep the tea warm. This represents a goliath step towards teapot technology.