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Timing Your Pressure Cooker

Generally speaking, pressure cookers cook foods in about 1/3 the time of conventional cooking methods. If you are an experienced pressure cooker user then you may feel comfortable using the Time Charts instead of a recipe. When cooking a single food item such as a vegetable, when no recipe is needed, just use the Cooking Time Charts.

The time tables here are guidelines to help you cook foods without a recipe or adapt some of your own recipes to the pressure cooker. Times will vary depending on YOUR pressure cooker, YOUR heat source and the quality of the foods you are preparing. When cooking multiple foods in the same pot begin timing for the food that takes the longest time to cook.

The size of the food will affect the cooking times as well. Foods that take the same amount of cooking times should be cut in the same sizes to cook evenly. To balance out the differences in cooking times of foods with slightly different cooking times cut the foods that require the longest cooking times in smaller pieces, and the shorter cooking foods in larger pieces.