How Does a Pressure Cooker Work?

Video Transcript

"How does a pressure cooker work? First of all, let me tell you, pressure cookers are a great way to cook because they cut the cooking time down in more than half the time and they make all the food flavorful and tender. So it's great when you come home from work and you don't have a lot of time to put dinner on the table, with this pressure cooker, you can cut all that time in half. The way the pressure cooker works is that it allows this closed in environment to transfer steam through the food so the internal temperature of the food rises a lot faster than normal cooking. So that means dinner's on the table in half the time, you don't lose all the vitamins and nutrients that you do with regular cooking, and everything is juicy and tender. That is why pressure cookers are so popular today and they work so well for the busy people out there working hard. So they're great to have on hand, especially for those meals that you need to cook in a hurry and making everything tender and juicy. Everybody needs a pressure cooker. I'm Jan from Kitchen Kitchen in Indian Wells, California."