Tips to Save with Pressure Cookers
Are you Losing Rs.400 in your Kitchen Every Month?
Pressure cooking raises the cooking temperature – therefore, the cooking is much faster! Well-made Pressure Cookers generally cook food at 121°C (250°F).
Do you know how much this time saving translates into fuel saving with a good quality pressure cooker?
The Hawkins R&D Centre did some scientific cooking trials that were supervised and certified by the Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology & Applied Nutrition, Mumbai, to establish this on a scientific and methodical basis.
Some widely-cooked Indian foods were selected for these trials. The fuel consumed and the time taken were measured for two types of cooking – in an open pot, and in a 6.5 Litre Hawkins pressure cooker. The heat source used was the large burner of the domestic LPG gas stove that is commonly found in kitchens across India. Thanks in part to the efforts undertaken by the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana social welfare scheme launched in 2016, LPG is now the most widely available source of cooking fuel in homes across India, as per reports published by the Ministry of Petroleum, Government of India.
The certified results of these Trials are tabulated below.