Cook & Chef Tips & Tricks
Pressure cookers, your best allies in the kitchen
The advantages of pressure cookers are clear: they save time, save energy, preserve the nutritional properties of food - such as vitamins and minerals - and help with healthy, fat-free cooking, boosting the flavours and aromas in their intensity.
Cooking is a day-to-day activity that can affect energy costs and consumption depending on our habits in the kitchen. Since their invention in 1679, pressure cookers have been the solution to many drawbacks and have made life easier for cooks all over the world thanks to their multiple advantages. They cook up to three times as quickly, saving up to 70% in energy and preparation time.
With this energy saving, we directly contribute to looking after the planet, but what's more, using pressure cookers in our kitchen enables us to look after our own health too. Pressure cookers are a great ally for the Mediterranean diet, given that their technological features that preserve heat, retain the flavour, aroma and nutritional properties of the ingredients cooked in them. Hence, we can enjoy our vegetables, meat, pulses and greens in all their splendour.
All of this means that it is important to choose a pressure cooker that guarantees our safety and our convenience when it comes to cooking.
Cooking in a San Ignacio pressure cooker is the most reliable, fast and easy way to prepare healthy and nutritious dishes. These pressure cookers have evolved over the years in terms of their design and operation, adding new characteristics to enable us to streamline and monitor cooking. Moreover, they are all made of 18/10 stainless steel, a high quality stainless steel.
