Is a pressure cooker worth owning? I would say YES! You can fully cook black, pinto, cranberry, kidney, lima and red beans in 15-18 minutes including the cool down time after the pressure cooker gets turned off. This is in contrast to 1-2 hours to fully cook hard beans. In addition, pressure cooked beans come out consistently tender and evenly cooked.
The time saved cooking rice isn’t quite so extreme but like beans the result is almost always perfectly done rice without being mushy or underdone. Short grain brown rice takes approximately 30 minutes.
This probably isn’t even the case anymore but I grew up hearing about pressure cookers exploding and make horrific messes and maybe even hurting people. Pressure cookers are completely safe now. There’s usually several built in pressure release valves so that if one fails there’s other ways to release built up steam.
We have a T-Fal Sensor 2 which we’ve had for 10 years and it still looks and works like new.
