Cooking Techniques

A pressure cooker is a wonderful tool for creating a tasty, home-cooked meal in a short amount of time. The Wolfgang Puck Pressure Cooker is a high-quality pressure cooker sold by the Home...

There is no need to waste energy to cook dinner when you can harness the power of the sun. A solar cooker concentrates the heat of the sun to cook food placed inside of it. It is handy for when...

Hot boxes, also known as hay boxes, may be the ultimate low-tech slow-cooker. An insulated cardboard box traps heat and uses it to finish cooking your food. You start the food cooking, stick it...

An electric pressure cooker can allow you to enjoy your favorite recipes in a fraction of the time. Pressure cookers trap steam created during cooking and allows it to build up inside the cooker...

A pot of beans and cornbread on a cold winter night is just the thing. Since many people today work and do not have time to cook beans the traditional way---all day---using a pressure cooker is a...

Homemade chicken stock makes soups more flavorful and rich. This is an easy recipe for a pressure cooker and uses common ingredients.

For years we have been told that raw vegetables are healthier than those that are cooked. However, according to the results of an Italian study, published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food...

A pressure cooker is a heating device that traps air to cook food more quickly. Once any liquid starts to boil, it cannot escape and results in pressure. Air pressure can actually increase the...

Want to know the secret to making fall off the bone ribs, like you get in the restaurants, in a fraction of the time it takes them to do it? Well, I do it all the time and it's so easy you'll...

Cooking with a crockpot is an easy way to have homemade meals any evening, especially if you're pressed for time between work and dinner. Crockpot cooking for two means preparing smaller portions,...

Making a meal in a slow cooker is incredibly simple, and this Chinese chicken recipe is no exception. The chicken can be eaten as-is with steamed vegetables, over rice or wrapped in lettuce...

Rice is a popular and tasty side dish that goes with many different main dishes. Cooking white rice in the microwave with a rice cooker can simplify the rice-cooking process. By measuring and...

These directions are for hot packing fresh green beans from your garden. You will be using a pressure cooker. Be sure to read the manufacturer's directions provided with your pressure cooker...

A Progressive Rice Cooker is a microwave appliance that cooks rice, either brown or white, in the microwave in about half the time of cooking rice on the stove top or in a conventional electric...

Steamed rice is the foundation to Asian cuisine. It goes great with many other types of cuisine as well. Making steamed rice without a measuring cup is very easy. I believe this is the way...

In this article you will learn how to preserve your green beans for the winter months.

On a sweltering day, the expression goes, "hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk." Whether or not that's possible, you probably wouldn't want to eat the egg afterward. You can, however, easily...

A slow cooker, or crock pot, is a wonderful appliance for cooking and roasting just about any type of food. The USDA does not recommend cooking whole chicken, turkey or large portions of a turkey...

Your Presto pressure cooker can help you get a healthy meal on the table in record time. Foods cook three to 10 times faster in a pressure cooker and are tender and nutritious. Presto makes...

A rice cooker takes the guesswork out of cooking rice and rice dishes. If you're fortunate enough to own a rice cooker with a steamer basket, then the versatile little machine will make steaming...

If you have an abundant harvest from your home garden, you can preserve some of that bounty for later use. Canning works well for preserving acidic foods such as fruit. You can use a pressure...

Roast beef comes in three rounds: bottom, top and eye of round. The eye of round roast is the most tender of the three. One method of cooking the eye of round is to use a crock pot. The slow...

Slow cooking brings out the flavor of meat. When cooked correctly, slow-cooked meats are enjoyable main courses that can make the meat very tender. Cook different cuts of meat in a slow cooker, in...

It seems every recipe for preparing corned beef differs on exact cooking times. Generally though, the length of time it takes to cook corned beef varies by the methods used as well as the size of...

Deep-fried foods remain a classic American guilty pleasure. A FryDaddy can be used to deep fry almost any of your favorite foods. Learn how to cook foods properly with your FryDaddy.

Learn how to easily cook black beans in a pressure cooker with these simple steps.

Pressure pots, or pressure cookers, cook foods without letting air escape from the pot. A gasket between the pot and the lid keeps the interior of the pot pressurized. A regulator, or release...

Steaming vegetables is a great way to add a healthy side dish to any meal. Zucchini is especially good steamed, and since you can only eat so much zucchini bread, it's also a quick way to add...

A solar cooker is a small insulated box lined with highly reflective colors to bring in as much of the sun's energy as possible. The inside of the box is often lined with reflective material and...

Slow cookers are a great kitchen tool if you love to create home-cooked meals but do not have the time to do it. They allow easy preparation of food without the last-minute hassle and are great...

Pork can be cooked in a variety of ways. It can be fried, roasted, smoked, barbecued or slow-cooked. Some cooking methods produce a tough meat, while others produce succulent pork that is tender...

Duck is delicious roasted on a rack in an oven, allowing the fat to flavor the meat and then drain into the pan. The key to cooking a bird in a slow cooker also is to raise the bird above the fat...

Outlined below is a method of grilling meals in a solar cooker. This method is similar to conventional ways of solar cooking, except that this method does not require a metal pot. Solar cooking...

The economy is making produce gardeners out of many families. This is wonderful until you find a 5-bushel basket of green beans sitting in your kitchen at 9 p.m. You can either get rid of the...

The beauty of rice cookers is that you can turn them on and go about your business. No more worrying about scorching your grain or having to deal with a burnt saucepan. Millet will cook very...

Making homemade broth can be done quickly in a pressure cooker. By gathering a few vegetable scraps or using the leftover bones from roast chicken, you can make a rich and flavorful broth in a...

You can tenderize your elk meat using simple cooking techniques. There are commercial meat tenderizers on the market. Some come in the form of a utensil that breaks down the meat fibers while...

Cooking white rice is easy. I will show the simple steps below on how to cook white rice.

Steamed fish is a nutritious and simple dish that can be made for lunch or dinner. Although there are a number of ways that you can prepare steamed fish, one of the easiest methods that requires...

An Ultrex pressure cooker is great for preparing a meal quickly. The basics are similar to cooking with a dutch oven. Using the proper procedures with an Ultrex Pressure Cooker will ensure you get...

Thai sticky rice is typically steamed in order to get its firm but sticky consistency. However, a fuzzy logic cooker is more convenient than steaming it the conventional way. Unfortunately, a...

The Denmark Pressure Cooker is lightweight and easy to use, and it produces succulent roasts and stews. It can be relied upon to cook recipes that usually take eight times as long in much less...

have been able to save quite a lot of time and money making meals in my rice cooker. Rice cookers are not just for cooking rice, although they are great at that! I fix many things in mine and also...

A pressure canner is a larger form of the pressure cooker. All pressure cookers work on the same principle: an increase in pressure equals an increase in heat. When water is added, it also means...

Dried pinto beans are packed with nutrition and extremely healthy. A ½ cup serving has only 120 calories and 0 grams of fat, as well as 9 grams of fiber and 7 grams of protein. For someone...

Ahhh...the rice cooker. Extremely versatile and simple to use. Anyone who owns one knows that you can use it to cook much more than rice. You may be surprised to know that you can make delicious,...

One of my favorite small appliances in the kitchen is my slow cooker. I use it at least once a week. I love the convenience, the simplicity, the time saving and the foolproof meals that are...

This article talks about how to cook rice.

Recipes including meat, vegetables, pastas and rice can all be cooked to perfection in a fraction of the time normally spent on the same dishes using a Rapida pressure cooker. This particular...

A pig cooker is a large oven that is designed to cook things, well... whole hog! You can build a pig cooker using any number of materials including an oil drum or barrel, an old propane tank, or...