Making the Most of Pressure Cookers and Fryers

Delivering faster, healthier meals with pressure cookers and fryers

The joy of pressure cookers and fryers is how quickly they can cook foods of many kinds. Incorporating these appliances more intricately into your repertoire will not only help you save time but will also encourage you and your chefs to come up with new, more creative dishes. Saving time in the kitchen will allow your cooking staff to spend more time turning around more plates or to have more time for innovation.

Making the most of pressure cookers and fryers requires both creativity and an element of risk taking to try different foods. Commercial pressure cookers and pressure fryers are slightly different and should be researched at length before purchasing one, as they can offer your kitchen different functions. Consider the following when putting your pressure cookers and fryers to use:

1. You can use pressure cookers and fryers to save money.

2. Use pressure cookers and fryers to cook dishes that would otherwise take too long to prepare with other forms of cooking.

3. Offer more flavorful and healthier meals to your customers with a commercial pressure cooker.

 

Use commercial pressure fryers and pressure cookers to save money on utility and grocery bills

Commercial pressure cookers and fryers are energy-saving appliances that can save you money on your monthly utility bills. They use, on average, 70% less energy than many of the other ways you may be used to cooking. These appliances also allow you to buy cheaper cuts of meat and other varieties of ingredients that won't lose their integrity when prepared in a pressure cooker.
Try: Miss Vickie provides information on the money and energy you can save by using pressure cookers and fryers. The Food Network describes how pressure cookers actually work.

Make dishes in your commercial pressure fryer or cooker that would normally take too long

Pressure cookers and fryers can make dishes in about a third of the time it would take using other conventional cooking methods. You can produce stews, soups and casseroles for your customers that were never an option before your pressure cooker because they didn't have a reasonable cooking time. You can create meals that appear to have taken all day, but in reality only need a matter of minutes from start to finish.
Try: You want fried chicken in a matter of minutes? KFC uses pressure frying in their kitchens. Buzzle.com explains more about pressure cooking and frying.

Use commercial pressure cookers and fryers to save flavor and nutrients

By not cooking foods for long periods of time you save valuable flavor and nutrients from your ingredients. Pressure cookers and fryers use high-pressured steam to cook your food that brings out flavor and protects the valuable nutrition by not cooking it off, as with other cooking methods.
Try: Helium offers insight into the benefits of pressure cookers and fryers. The Gourmet Kitchen explains the nutritional benefits of pressure cooking and frying.

 

• Consider purchasing multiple pressure cookers and fryers to have several dishes cooking simultaneously.

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