1. Using a pressure cooker can dramatically reduce cooking times. As a rule of thumb, cooking this way takes just 1. You will be surprised that it takes just about thirty minutes to cook a full chicken, while boiled potatoes can be served in about eight minutes.

2. Food cooked this way is tastier, as more of the flavours and nutrients are retained. This kind of cooking helps to serve more inviting vegetarian dishes as the natural color of vegetables is maintained.

3. Because of its lower energy consumption, it offers economical coking. As cooking times are reduced, you can spend less time in the kitchen and more time doing the other things you need to do.

4. Pressure cooker facilitates cooking in different styles. It can be used for boiling, baking, braising, poaching and steaming.

5. Some of the trendy dishes you could make include a variety of cooked vegetables and meats and making of soups. You'll find many uses for your pressure cooker as you become more experienced with it. Meals that take several hours cooked in the oven, can be done in minutes now.

6. When choosing a pressure cooker, the higher the temperature, the faster the food will cook. The size of pressure cooker is decided by your requirements, meaning the size of your family.

7. Use of a cooker for cooking reduces the amount of water that needs to be boiled, thereby reducing the number of hot pans on the stove at any given time. This can be especially useful if you have small children.

8. Cooking using a pressure helps to kill more bacteria and viruses, so your food will be safer to eat.

9. If you have a baby at home, you will find pressure cooker of help in sterilizing baby bottles, thus doing away with buying of a separate sterilizer and thus save money. If you're a jam maker, or want to make your own jam, you can also use your pressure cooker to sterilise your jam jars too.

10. Although there were occasionally problems with pressure cookers when they first became available, modern pressure cookers are much safer and have more valves to regulate steam and the temperature.

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