Are Electric Pressure Cookers Energy Efficient?
You may have heard about electric pressure cookers a lot lately. So now you're interested in this piece of equipment to take some of the "Pressure Off" of preparing meals? You are in the right place.
Check out our other blogs to know the difference between the old fashioned pressure cookers and their new and exciting electric counterparts.
However the name itself is self-explanatory, and you might just be wondering if it's worth switching over to yet another device you have to plug in. Well, you've come to the right place!
Are electric pressure cookers energy efficient?
You don't waste food. Why waste energy by using inefficient cooking technology?
An electric pressure cooker is 10X more versatile than your regular cookers. It can saute, bake, steam, bake, slow cook and more. If you choose the robocook zeta, one of the best electric pressure cookers in our line here at Geek chef Appliances, It comes at a cost that is actually comparable to a regular ‘dumb’ cooker, which is a steal!
PROGRAMMABLE INTELLIGENT COOKING
PiC intelligently manages temperature, heat, time and pressure to simplify your cooking. Yet guaranteeing you the perfection you’ve always strived for. Robocook improvises on the concept of a regular pressure cooker with preset menus controlled by advanced microchips. While it takes away all the monotony of cooking it retains all the nutrition in the food.
Cooking In The New Age Of Technology
A recent study revealed that Indians spend an average of up to 13 hours a week in the kitchen – more than most nations in the world.
That’s appalling. We strive to change that because YOU deserve the break. Let the gadget take up the slack for you.
With preset menus, coded into the programmable pressure cookers, Cook your favourite Indian breakfast dishes like Idly, Sambar, Pongal or succulent Biryani, Pulao or any choice of non-vegetarian foods. No fancy cooking skills required.
Our Robocook Zeta which has 13 preset menus and our best multifunction electric cooker, RoboCook D5 comes with 20 preset menus. Whether you want a mini pressure cooker like our 8 litre pressure cooker or a bigger 10 litre pressure cooker, we got you covered.
Benefits Of Electric Pressure Cooker
What's the point of spending money on quality ingredients if all the nutritional value is going to be leeched away by the cooking method?
Boiling (as well as regular steaming) can cause water-soluble vitamins to leech out of food, diminishing their nutritional value. Electric pressure cookers cook food quickly, deeply and evenly, and may allow foods to retain up to 90% of those water-soluble vitamins.
It Gives Fast Food A Whole New Meaning.
Cooking in an electric fast cooker lets us cook foods in a very fast manner. If you want to know how long it would take for an electric pressure cooker to cook chicken, the answer is just half an hour. Yes, you can cook a whole chicken so tender to fall-off-the-bone in about 30 minutes or so using an electric pressure cooker. You don’t have to stand against the stove in scorching summers. What's not to like?
Automatic Pressure Cooker
The intelligent electric plug-in Automatic electric pressure cookers remove the stress and need to monitor and adjust the burner constantly to ensure things stay at a safe temperature and pressure. This is all done for you by the controls - just set it and walk away. The temperature adjustments are automatic.
Once the food is ready, you are alerted by beeps -3 beeps in the case of the RoboCook electric pressure cookers- and the technologically advanced Geek Robocook automatically switches to keep warm mode once your food is cooked.
Many People Do Ask If Electric Cookers Are Safe To Operate.
They are known to be safer than the conventional stove-top pressure cookers. In a stove-top cooker, it is easy to leave the lid open partially and not know it. They are in fact notorious for this reason. It can lead to getting burnt with hot water or the unwanted release of steam.
Smart Electric Pressure Cooker help avoid such situations and you don’t have to worry at all if you are using a reliable brand such as Geek Appliances.
Our Robocook Electric Cookers have 7 different safety guards protecting you from uneven pressure or heat. Its vents are thoughtfully designed to let out steam upwards only and its pressure lock mechanism will allow you to open the lid only after complete pressure is released.
Geek Appliances features top rated electric cookers with the best safety features to make sure things don't get dangerous.
The advanced safety features mean you can cook with confidence, and you can make great tasting meals in record time — all while keeping your energy bills in check.
Energy Consumption
Electric pressure cookers are energy efficient kitchen appliances, second only to microwaves. There are two major factors that contribute to electric cooker pots energy efficiency:
Pressure cookers require significantly less liquid than traditional cooking methods, so it will boil faster.
They are insulated which prevents energy from being lost in the cooking process
Compared to other cooking methods, such as baking, boiling, or steaming, pressure cooking can reduce your cook time & energy usage by up to 70%.
Digital Pressure Cookers can complete meals in a fraction of the time required by other methods, and it’s not because they use more energy — it’s because they use more pressure! By letting steam pressure do the work, you may be able to save hours of energy-consuming cooking time on recipes that traditionally cook at low temperatures for hours.
The Science Behind It
Now let’s think about the energy needed to cook with electric pressure cookers.
With an electric pressure cooker, one can cook food at a higher humidity and higher temperatures than conventional boiling or steaming methods. In traditional cooking methods, that is in an ordinary cooking vessel, which is non-pressurized, the boiling point of water is 100 °C (at atmospheric pressure). Any amount of heat supplied to the vessel will not increase the temperature any further. It will only result in evaporation of water, which will consume more fuel to cook.
In order to get the liquid water to this higher temperature, we will need to add more energy. This is true.
BUT – once there, the cooking time is reduced which is an energy saver.
AND – the real advantage of these electric pressure cookers is that unlike our stove tops, the heating element and geek chef instant pot are enclosed in a well-insulated shell. The outside of the electric steam pot does not get hot, which tells us that the electricity that goes in, goes directly to the food, not to the kitchen. This is a huge energy saver
Bottomline
Cooking is an art, home cooked food is always superior to outside food once you know what you are doing. Despite this fact, some people dislike the time spent and hassles it takes to cook good food. To streamline the cooking process, one of the best kitchen appliances is a commercial Electric Pressure Cooker.
Where To Go From Here
Does this sound like exactly what you need? Catch the new wave of kitchen innovation and get your hands on one of our top of the line robocook electric pressure cookers with stainless steel parts.
Head on over to the store on Geek Robocook website or buy our electric pressure cookers on Amazon and #TakeThePressureOff
January 7, 2021
John