Slowcooker VS Digital Electric Pressure Cooker

I used to looooove cooking in a slowcooker.   I used to collect recipe books that you normally found in the check-out lines at the market during the Autumn season.  Slow cook this,  slow cook that.  Everything looked so delicious and divine.  My friends even chipped in together to buy me a slow cooker for a present one year, back when I first got out of high school.  That was close to 15 years ago.  And my slow cooker was a pretty nice basic model that I used for years and years.  And I even moved it with me when I moved out on my own into my own new house a couple of years ago.

Then somebody (I won’t name any names here) broke the glass lid to my slow cooker!!!! *gasp*

And my model was so old that the manufacturer didn’t supply the replacement glass lid for it anymore.  I was devastated!!!  Okay, not really.  But I was a bit miffed.

However, a few months after the lid to my slow cooker broke, I got my pressure cooker.  At first, I didn’t really connect the two appliances together.  I didn’t consider them to be in the same category.  I still had my slow cooker base and inner stone pot (actually, I still have it today!) and I use it for just keeping foods warm.

But when I started using my Pressure Cooker more and more, I realized the food that I make come out to the same consistancy, texture and delishness that pretty much mimics the food that I used to make in the slow cooker.  A light bulb went off in my head!!!

I started to go through all the old slow cooker recipe books I had collected and started to experiment.  I realized that many of the recipes could be adapted and using the same ingredients,  I could cook it in my pressure cooker!!!  And instead of it taking 6-8 hours to sloooooooowly cook the food, the pressure cooker could cook it in just an hour or less!!!

I cooked chickens, soups, rice, grains, ribs and a ton of other stuff.  Except this was all last year before I got the bright idea to blog about my pressure cooking, so alas, I have no photos or instructional recipes for those.  But I will definitely start re-cooking (is that a word?) some of the better adaptations and start blogging them down.

Just remember that Digital Pressure Cookers are still a fairly new appliance in the market and recipes for it are still a bit difficult to find.  Most recipe books out there are for use with an old-fashioned stove-top unit.  And we want to stay far away from those as possible. Although those recipes are also adaptable.

So if you are in need of a recipe idea or cooking inspiration, I suggest you dive into the world of slow cooking books.  You’d be surprised by what recipes could be easily adapted to be used in a Digital Pressure Cooker.  You get to cut the cook time down by almost 70-80% and the food tastes and feels just like it’s been cooking for hours!  You’ve got nothing to lose!!!  Trust me!