I appreciate the effort put into the science of what the parts do, and what they mean. Thank you. It seems that very few people explain the why, and most only explain the how when talking about cooking stuff. Thumbs up.
i used a pressure cooker for the first time. i live alone and was so scared to use it and the manual for the cheap model i used was useless plus came with several spelling mistakes so i searched for videos to help me out and this by far has been the most helpful video. i put some beans that i had soaked overnight covered with 2 inches water and only added salt and some vegetable oil. i waited for 2 whistles then i turned the stove off after the second whistle and waited for it to natural release.about 20min for the whole process and took about 12 min for the pressure release. beans are cooked to perfection! thankyou very much🙏
I would use 1/4 of a white onion ( do not chop) and 3 garlic cloves. once beans are done fish out onion/garlic put in a blender with bean broth and a few of the boiled beans and liquefy it. add it back to your beans and mix that thoroughly for lots more flavor.
Enjoyed viewing the pressure cooker help-I'm using black beans in a Mirro-Matic that had belonged to my mother-in-law. I had all kinds of fun this summer using the cooker and mom eating up what I would cook. She past away a couple of months ago, but I still like to use my pressure cooker. Your video instruction was really great, because I felt like I was in the kitchen with you. Thank you
I have watched a couple of bean videos today trying to figure out how to make them in a pressure cooker. I like your video the best because you're very good at explaining thing the process.Good Job!
I’m glad to hear it, Ms Glamour! Holler if you have any questions about pressure cooking. I’ve been pressure cooking meals and vegetables for 28 years. I know some stuff. 😉
I use my Granny's pressure cooker often it is 1930s and its heavy as all get out but does the job even on my 1879 wood cook stove. I have a large family so I usually have to go for 3 lbs of beans at one time in that old thing at about 10 lbs pressure for an hour and half. Was thinking about getting a modern one like yours but its not big enough for all my kin. Much obliged for the video.
Just followed your instructions this morning. Beans were OLD, but they came out as tender and tasty as any I've ever had. Thank you for posting this video.
just ordered my first pressure cooker!!!! am glad i found your video right off the bat my hubby and daddy and little brother love beans and cornbread wahoo!!! no more hours of prep time!!! I have subscribed to your channel!!!
A wonderful video! ... My Dear Mothers pressure cooker is back in service after setting in the cupboard way too long. Great instructions, great video, simplicity at its best! Season to taste and don't forget to make the cornbread while the beans are cooking! You've made an old man very happy! Thank you very much!
Jill your the Best ! I just got my Canner/Cooker and it's a 23QT pot .I got it for my Garden but need to cook beans for the AMERICAN LEGION dinner at my Hemet Post 53 in Cal. your video helped me out .
You helped me find out that I assembled my pressure cooker wrong... lol the manual didn't come with any instructions on how to properly put it together so in the end there was an extra piece - discovered that it was the valve that's supposed to seal the pot. No wonder the beans were cooking for 30 minutes already and the steam wouldn't go to the regulator... thank you for this!
My mother had one of those "old" type units. When I say old I mean back in the 50's. She did not know about cleaning the dancing weight and some food got stuck in it and the emergency plug blew out and welll ..... we needed some sheet rock work in the kitchen ceiling ! For Christmas this year I got one of those Power Pressure Cookers XL and they work great. They are all automatic and it does not have a dancing weight on top. It some how keeps the steam in. The food in a pressure cooker is a whole lot better than I remember. I have been using mine to make chili, soup, and stews. Carrots and snap beans only take 8 minutes. Great video..... Thanks
D. Hansel Have you seen my newer pressure cooking and slow cooking videos? Last April, Hubby gave me an Instant Pot for my birthday. It's one of my best friends in the kitchen. It's a pressure cooker, a slow cooker, a steamer and a yogurt maker. LOVE IT!
I just remember the old pressure my mother had back in the 50's. These new Power Pressure Cookers XL are great. I am going to make some refried beans today. it is about 36 deg here in Houston and I saw a good recipe for that. I have been digging through our chest freezer to find stuff in it to cook. It is definitely soup,stew and chili weather... later....
refried beans are an excellent hangover cure (vegan and miss those bacon sandwiches), yet often I forget to soak the little bad boys. Discovered a pressure cooker in the back of the cupboard and found your video, it worked a treat! left them in for a bit longer so nice and soft for the mashing, Many thanks from the UK.
You're welcome, Ultranol1983! Rice and beans are a staple in our home. We never tire of them because there's so many ways to enjoy them. Plus keeping a variety of beans on hand keeps meals interesting.
Thank you so much your video and information it was awesome. I looked and looked through several videos to find one that I did not have to presoak my beans and found only yours. I needed to cook my beans in a matter of 2 hrs. thanks for saving my morning. BTW...you have made my experience less fearful even down to the cooling of the pressure cooker. Loved the pre-seasoning tip as well. Truly awesome!!!
Basically just the pinto beans, at least for now. Rice and beans is a staple of the Brazilian cuisine and my wife was taking 2-3 hours when she wanted to cook it, which was never, lol yesterday it took 20 minutes after we got it right so I'm looking forward to enjoying that more often. Thank you.
Thanks Jill, that was very helpful, my momma used one those things when we were kids with great success, but I have even been to cooking school and still seem to have problems cooking simple beans, so I found this brand new 1979 never been used pressure cooker at an estate sale yesterday, and now I think I'm ready to cook them beans tender, nothing like a good instruction video, :)
Great video!!!! I'm tired of people always saying soak soak soak... That works, but this way is so much faster!!! Also people that live in higher elevations have done it this way for years.
Thank you, Chris! I'm the same way. I dig learning the science behind systems (mechanical and biological). It helps me wrap my head around why we should or shouldn't be doing things or using something.
Thank you so much for this video. I am thinking of getting a pressure cooker but was afraid to use one. Now I am going to get me that same pot you have. They sell it at Kmart and other places. Can't wait to use it and cook some tender meats and beans.
Great video! Do you recommend the more expensive pressure cookers like Kuhn-Rikon? Seems like a cheap Presto might be the way to get started. Thanks for the excellent video.
Not sure if this was mentioned but when you mentioned adding the oil I hear it actually helps it where you don't acquire the froth/foam on the surface. I think it has something to do with surface tension. I'm making pintos tonight and I've seen your video before and have made beans in pressure cooker but just wanted a refresher hahaha.. I have that same presto 6qt pot that my mom got me, unfortunately I've only used it like 5 times in the last 2 years and am constantly looking for new meals to cook in it. I've done whole chicken, beans, artichoke and attempted pressure fried chicken with less than desirably skin and really oil logged.. Anyways cheers !!
Very nice video! Thanks, My Ma gave me her pressure cooker and I miss her pinto beans and she used her cooker to cook'em up in a hurry. Thanks so much for your help! Now I've subscribed to your videos!
Hi Michelle, you need to get your hands on the owner's manual for your pressure cooker. Google around or contact the manufacturer. The owner's manual has all the cooking charts and recipes you need to properly cook food in the pressure cooker. I've kept my all these years and I STILL refer to it because I can't possible remember how long each veggie or beans take to cook.
Thanks for saying so Jill :). I've got a lot of respect for shearers, that is some serious hardwork! And a remaining industry where machine has not bettered man so tell your friends to keep on coming :).
Hi, I loved your video. You had mentioned that you add oil to your pot but you didn't know why. Oil is added to the water in a pressure cooker to change the surface tension of the water so that it is less likely to foam up and come out the vent hole (long pipe thinggie).
thanks for the cooking lesson. i've had a pressure cooker for years, and i finally got the nerve to try it. i used the bacon fat, and the beans came out great!...and btw, you look cute as all get up in that little top! =o. thanks again! =)
THANK YOU, Mr. Fiesty! I'm so glad we worked this out. Please let me know when you get those beans worked out, and let me know what else you learn to cook in your new cooker.
Excellent video! I'm a vegetarian and I bought my pressure cooker ions ago in the hopes of making cheap bean dishes. Three years later, after I cleared the dust off of it and got angry at the manual- I searched and found your video. Very well done! I tried the recipe almost immediately. Results? I added way too much water (I think...I'm very very accident prone, so the threat of exploding stuff scared me to death), so the beans are cooked, but bland. You gave a great explanation that even I couldn't fudge up (well, not a lot anyways). I will definitely check out your other pressure cooker vids. Hoping there are vegetarian ones! Thanks a bunch!
thanks. my cookers instructions are in spanish and I wanted to make sure my translation was spot on. your video answered all my concerns and was very informative. I can now proceed with confidence. thanks again. if you don't mind drunken rambling I have a falafel from scratch video
Oh THANK YOU, Kantian Nanbo! I, too, have a 23qt. canner, but I've never had the need to cook beans in it. Please come back and let me know how many pounds of beans, how much water and seasonings it took to feed Hernet Post 53.
Thanks for the great video and info. Bought a PC today and just made ham and beans. I am shocked at how dry beans go to perfect in about 20 minutes. Dinner for tonight and freeze for later. Thanks again.
Thank you for making this so simple for me! You are easy to watch because you are so relaxed in front of the camera, and you have a nice voice :) Loved cooking with you in your kitchen and me in mine :) Will watch your other video's!
You're funny. Thank you so much for this tutorial. I just got a pressure cooker, but I am mortified to use it :o. My grandmother got severe burns years ago from a pressure cooker incident. I am a shaking mess trying to get this thing going for some chickpeas tonight :0.
once again another great video, thanks to you now I can make fresh beans on my new 4 qt presto pressure cooker. thank you, stay home dad in the learning process..YEAHH
Electric Pressure cookers are the way to go! Easy, safe - two parts -lid and cooker. You can cook virtually anything in pressure cookers from beans to meats to vegetables. Great video, but I will use the electric pressure cooker anyday over the "standard." Love your videos and I still pre-soak beans..
Thanks.. I make beans at least 3 times a week (6lbs) and I bought a 10qt pressure cooker to help me save time.. I'm going to try this tonight.. Thanks for sharing 👍
Lol.. There's only 3 of us and since we are Mexican it is the main side dish for our meals. But idk why, but we don't get gas .. Maybe our body is so use to always eating it? Idk :)
yolandapastoriza Hi beans have 9 grams of fiber per 1 c & we need 21-30+ grams of fiber daily. When we get enough fiber a day it cuts down on the gas/musical fruit as SDR calls it.
How do you know how long (time) to cook foods? I bought a pressure cooker about two years ago and never use it because I am not sure how long to cook different foods in it. Thanks for any tips!
Jill, I just watched this pressure cooker video for beans, and we're going to try it (after we get a pressure cooker). (I live beans, my mom goes along with it). Thank you much. I learned much. Question: ¿can one soak beans overnight (red kidney beans)? ¿What pressure cooker do you recommend purchasing, please? Thank you much.
Hi Gerardaven! All the way from NZ? I love it! I want to visit there someday. I have friends that spend 3 months there sheering sheep just to help out. They say it's the best place on earth.
Hi HiFi1975! Congratulations on your new pressure cooker! Unfortunately, we cannot cook beans and rice together. That would be awesome. Read your owner's manual and keep it in a handy place. There are full instructions and recipes for rice and how long to cook certain types of beans. I can never remember how long it takes to cook Navy beans, and it's not as long as pinto beans.
Thank you so much SDR for recipe for the beans video, I got a pressure cooker like yours for a year now and don't have any good recipes. I'm afraid I will burn stuff since I don't know how long or how high to cook things in it. Or how much liquid to put in it so it wont run dry lol. Plus you are a cute lil thing that makes it easy for me to watch your videos. I did subscribe and thumbs up hope to see more pressure cooking videos in the future. ~mark~
@tomisnt I hear ya loud and clear. I tell my kids all the time about the importance of knowing how to grow their own food. We don't live in the country, but inside the city limits. We keep a small garden. When our favorite fruits and vegetables are in season, I go to canning and freezing. I figure if it's part of me, it has to rub off and become a part of them.
I'm glad to hear ur living healthier,but I'm not ready to take that step yet.So what I do is substitute the liquid smoke and oil for a smoked ham hock.When the beans are done I use half w/my rice and the other half I smash w/ an old fashion potato masher (remember those?).The kids will never eat bean dip out of a can again.I'm glad folks like you are out there making these videos-pressure cookers ROCK and they're safe.My IQ is= to a second coat of paint and I've been using this method for years
Wonderful video. I used to pressure cook everything. The best recipe I never quite got right though is pressure fried chicken. Have You ever done this one? Pressure fried chicken from my mother in laws hang out years ago was the only one and we used to travel over 2 states to get it for dinner. I would love to see that recipe. It was the best chicken I remember next to barbeque. I now have an electric pressure cooker. It is very pretty and does; yes it does work just like a pressure cooker for stoves.
can't tell if the time is 15 or 50 minutes, i know 15 will work, but may seem a little undone but 50 min. in a pressure cooker is a very long time, usually reserved for canning? Almost no matter the food i always use an inside no handle pot on bottom seperator with water enough for time required, plus water for the food being cooked. preventsany burning, regards
It's 50 minutes for dry pinto beans. If the beans are soaked in hot water for an hour, then the cooking time is only 25 minutes. I'm not sure I follow your tip. You place a pot inside the cooker surrounded with water, and put the food inside the inner pot? How large is your pressure cooker? How much food is being cooked at one time?
Is something wrong with my pot? It's new and it never chattered. It just made a few huge steam releases almost like a train and I saw some foam come up. Did I not put enough oil in with my beans? I never saw any constant rocking or chattering. :o
I just bought a 6qrt presto and I am so nervous to use. We are vegan and beans are in our daily diet! We also don't use oil so is it necessary to use it? The directions say so to prevent foam but I just can't phantom adding oil to our meals. Please tell me I can get away without adding it! Great video though and I feel much more confident now. I will be using it tomorrow!
You're welcome, Salobrena. Now you know what to expect. From here on out, it's all about learning how different beans cook up. And for those times, when the beans don't cook up tender in the alloted time, just put the lid back on the cooker, get the pressure back up, and cook another 15 minutes or however long you think it would take to get them tender.
Jill you said add water 2 inches above the beans! What would you say about Rice .I allways put in to much or not enough and thanks for the video keep up the good work.
Doodles Pachesco I'm sorry I haven't replied sooner. Your question was hidden in another folder. When it comes to brown rice in the pressure cooker, I have consistent results with 2 cups rice, 2 1/2 cups water. Once the pressure is up, cook 20 minutes, remove cooker from heat source and set aside 10 minutes. Depending on the your pressure cooker (stove top or electric) release the remaining pressure as directed by the its manual.
I have cooked only with Basmati rice white and brown. I will give you both recipes. I take a steel bowl(flat/round) .take one cup of rice. rinse for 3 times. Drain all water. Now for white rice add 1 + 3/4 cups of water. For brown rice add 1+ 1/4 cup of water. Add 1 cup of water in the pressure cooker. Now let the steel bowl full of rice and water float on the water. close the lid and cook. Remember brown rice takes double the time to cook. cooked Rice comes out prefectly fine, Don't have to worry about rice sticky or stuck on the pan and easy to clean . This way you can cook batches of rice over and over again for a large group of people within no time. I prefer not to cook direct on the pressure cooker pan to avoid cumbersome cleaning.
You're welcome, urban poison! THANK YOU for watching, I hope you subscribed to my channel. ;D I plan to post more pressure cooking videos in the new year with a focus on soups and vegetable medleys.
Hi Steven! I'm sorry I didn't respond sooner. These new YT channel changes have me confused. To answer your question, I'm a Presto gal all the way. My grandmother used Presto... they're built to last. I'm not completely sold on the electric cookers, mainly because they would take up valuable counter space. (I really use my pc several times a week.) However, my single aunt lives in a small place & LOVES her electric cooker bc it doesn't heat up her place. If you have a family, go with a 6-qt.
I laughed when she said her daughter does not like to see onions in her beans. I'm not a fan of cooked onions at all - they creep me the hell out - and refuse to eat anything with visible onions. Glad there are others like me out there. :)
THANK YOU, Janet! My ease in front of the camera comes from being an only child growing up. I spent A LOT of time in front of the mirror keeping myself company. Is that too much information? ;D Now you think I'm a nut-job, right?
@msgamerette86 What's the tip? 1 teaspoon of what per cup of rice? or is it a tablespoon? What does the rice have to do with the beans? I've never had a clogged gasket from cooking beans. I could see how foam from rice would clog a gasket or vent pipe. Then again, I've never tried cooking rice in a pressure cooker. Presto instructs us to place the water and rice in a boil wrapped with a tight fitting foil lid then the bowl is set inside the cooker. Water is then pour around the bowl.
"If your family is gassy like mine... it doesn't matter!". Hahaha thanks for the video I love the bean flavoring you use, I use this recipe a lot now :). Cheers from NZ.
I would like to also add that my wife and I are recently retired, fixed income, and all the baggage such stuff brings. We bought a small travel trailer to get away in. When we learned about the energy savings a pressure cooker provides we bought two of them. A larger GSI pressure cooker for the house and a smaller GSI pressure cooker for use in the trailer while on the road. We like to travel to remote areas that typically have no services. In such places we rely on propane from a couple of five gallon tanks. We like beans for all their goodness but cooking them for 2 to four hours is a huge propane consumption. The little GSI pressure cooker cuts that time down to less than 10 minutes if we presoak them overnight... easy enough to do no matter where we are. I am keen on the GSI pressure cookers because they are quite compact (no extended handles to deal with), light weight, and pack away quite nicely. GSI is an outdoor company that caters to backpackers, campers, and hikers. A Google search will find them... and no, I have no affiliation with GSI whatsoever. I just like the products they make.
My grandmother had a pressure cooker and her beans were our favorite meal. We were poor but to us, that was filet minion! I found a mirro pressure cooker and have already purchased/ordered 3 gaskets and it still will not pressure cook. I enjoyed your video, maybe you can give me some pointers? 😊
Back in 2014, I upgraded to a 6-quart Instant Pot® DUO 7-in-1 Pressure Cooker. I own three Instant Pot®, a 3-quart, a 6-quart, and an 8-quart. I use the 3-qt and 8-qt several times a week.
ddd123, you can use that extra cooking liquid in your next chili dinner. Store the cooking liquid in a good freezer container and put it up in the freezer until you're ready to make chili.
kcl060, I'm sorry I didn't respond quicker. I just found your questions. What brand of cooker do you have? I know they are not all made the same. Do you still have the instruction manual? (Don't ever toss it away.)
I appreciate the effort put into the science of what the parts do, and what they mean. Thank you. It seems that very few people explain the why, and most only explain the how when talking about cooking stuff. Thumbs up.
i used a pressure cooker for the first time. i live alone and was so scared to use it and the manual for the cheap model i used was useless plus came with several spelling mistakes so i searched for videos to help me out and this by far has been the most helpful video. i put some beans that i had soaked overnight covered with 2 inches water and only added salt and some vegetable oil. i waited for 2 whistles then i turned the stove off after the second whistle and waited for it to natural release.about 20min for the whole process and took about 12 min for the pressure release. beans are cooked to perfection! thankyou very much🙏
I would use 1/4 of a white onion ( do not chop) and 3 garlic cloves. once beans are done fish out onion/garlic put in a blender with bean broth and a few of the boiled beans and liquefy it. add it back to your beans and mix that thoroughly for lots more flavor.
Every time I want to cook beans I watch this video. Perfect beans every time. Thanks for the video.
thanks Jill! the review of the mechanics of the pressure cooker works really helpful!
You are great. Thanks so much for this info. I'm about to do this for the first time...
I think the purpose of the oil is to hold down the foam the beans create.
Enjoyed viewing the pressure cooker help-I'm using black beans in a Mirro-Matic that had belonged to my mother-in-law. I had all kinds of fun this summer using the cooker and mom eating up what I would cook. She past away a couple of months ago, but I still like to use my pressure cooker. Your video instruction was really great, because I felt like I was in the kitchen with you. Thank you
You are so welcome, @rawdates! and THANK YOU for your kindness. Anytime you think I could help you out in the kitchen, just holler. I'll do my best.
I have watched a couple of bean videos today trying to figure out how to make them in a pressure cooker. I like your video the best because you're very good at explaining thing the process.Good Job!
More informative than any other video I watched. Thank you 😊
I’m glad to hear it, Ms Glamour! Holler if you have any questions about pressure cooking. I’ve been pressure cooking meals and vegetables for 28 years. I know some stuff. 😉
I use my Granny's pressure cooker often it is 1930s and its heavy as all get out but does the job even on my 1879 wood cook stove. I have a large family so I usually have to go for 3 lbs of beans at one time in that old thing at about 10 lbs pressure for an hour and half. Was thinking about getting a modern one like yours but its not big enough for all my kin. Much obliged for the video.
Just followed your instructions this morning. Beans were OLD, but they came out as tender and tasty as any I've ever had. Thank you for posting this video.
just ordered my first pressure cooker!!!! am glad i found your video right off the bat my hubby and daddy and little brother love beans and cornbread wahoo!!! no more hours of prep time!!! I have subscribed to your channel!!!
A wonderful video! ... My Dear Mothers pressure cooker is back in service after setting in the cupboard way too long. Great instructions, great video, simplicity at its best! Season to taste and don't forget to make the cornbread while the beans are cooking! You've made an old man very happy! Thank you very much!
+4570rifle You're welcome! I'm so glad to hear the video was helpful to you.
Jill your the Best ! I just got my Canner/Cooker and it's a 23QT pot .I got it for my Garden but need to cook beans for the AMERICAN LEGION dinner at my Hemet Post 53 in Cal. your video helped me out .
Maam, you are AWESOME! Very good public speaker, thank you.
You helped me find out that I assembled my pressure cooker wrong... lol the manual didn't come with any instructions on how to properly put it together so in the end there was an extra piece - discovered that it was the valve that's supposed to seal the pot. No wonder the beans were cooking for 30 minutes already and the steam wouldn't go to the regulator... thank you for this!
My mother had one of those "old" type units. When I say old I mean back in the 50's.
She did not know about cleaning the dancing weight and some food got stuck in it and the emergency plug blew out and welll ..... we needed some sheet rock work in the kitchen ceiling !
For Christmas this year I got one of those Power Pressure Cookers XL and they work great. They are all automatic and it does not have a dancing weight on top. It some how keeps the steam in.
The food in a pressure cooker is a whole lot better than I remember. I have been using mine to make chili, soup, and stews.
Carrots and snap beans only take 8 minutes.
Great video..... Thanks
D. Hansel Have you seen my newer pressure cooking and slow cooking videos? Last April, Hubby gave me an Instant Pot for my birthday. It's one of my best friends in the kitchen. It's a pressure cooker, a slow cooker, a steamer and a yogurt maker. LOVE IT!
I just remember the old pressure my mother had back in the 50's. These new Power Pressure Cookers XL are great.
I am going to make some refried beans today. it is about 36 deg here in Houston and I saw a good recipe for that. I have been digging through our chest freezer to find stuff in it to cook. It is definitely soup,stew and chili weather...
later....
I loved my old pressure cooker. Wish I still had it. I think they still sell them. Simple. I love simple.
Jill, I love beans and thank you for showing this old cook on how to make them in a pressure cooker in a safe way !!!!!!
Thank you for your video!!! I just bought a presto pressure cooker and you just taught me how to use it.😉
refried beans are an excellent hangover cure (vegan and miss those bacon sandwiches), yet often I forget to soak the little bad boys. Discovered a pressure cooker in the back of the cupboard and found your video, it worked a treat! left them in for a bit longer so nice and soft for the mashing, Many thanks from the UK.
You're welcome, Ultranol1983! Rice and beans are a staple in our home. We never tire of them because there's so many ways to enjoy them. Plus keeping a variety of beans on hand keeps meals interesting.
I have been so scared to use my pressure cooker but now I'm going to going and make some beans yum!
Thank you so much your video and information it was awesome. I looked and looked through several videos to find one that I did not have to presoak my beans and found only yours. I needed to cook my beans in a matter of 2 hrs. thanks for saving my morning. BTW...you have made my experience less fearful even down to the cooling of the pressure cooker. Loved the pre-seasoning tip as well. Truly awesome!!!
Hi Sharon! That's a good idea to pre-mix the spices. I never thought of that. THANKS!
Just what I was looking for, thank you!
I subscribed to your channel because you answered all my questions with not a lot of fuss and now I can make beans! thank you!
This is so spot on. Well done!
This is a great reference for the use of a pressure cooker. Thanks.
Basically just the pinto beans, at least for now. Rice and beans is a staple of the Brazilian cuisine and my wife was taking 2-3 hours when she wanted to cook it, which was never, lol yesterday it took 20 minutes after we got it right so I'm looking forward to enjoying that more often. Thank you.
Thanks Jill, that was very helpful, my momma used one those things when we were kids with great success, but I have even been to cooking school and still seem to have problems cooking simple beans, so I found this brand new 1979 never been used pressure cooker at an estate sale yesterday, and now I think I'm ready to cook them beans tender, nothing like a good instruction video, :)
Great video!!!! I'm tired of people always saying soak soak soak... That works, but this way is so much faster!!! Also people that live in higher elevations have done it this way for years.
Thank you, Chris! I'm the same way. I dig learning the science behind systems (mechanical and biological). It helps me wrap my head around why we should or shouldn't be doing things or using something.
Thank you so much for this video. I am thinking of getting a pressure cooker but was afraid to use one. Now I am going to get me that same pot you have. They sell it at Kmart and other places. Can't wait to use it and cook some tender meats and beans.
Great video! Do you recommend the more expensive pressure cookers like Kuhn-Rikon? Seems like a cheap Presto might be the way to get started. Thanks for the excellent video.
Nice video! What do you do with the cooking liquid? I don't like my beans runny but it seems like a waster of good liquid.
Jill, Thank you so much! This is the video I’ve been looking for! Going to try some this weekend! Yummy!
Not sure if this was mentioned but when you mentioned adding the oil I hear it actually helps it where you don't acquire the froth/foam on the surface. I think it has something to do with surface tension. I'm making pintos tonight and I've seen your video before and have made beans in pressure cooker but just wanted a refresher hahaha..
I have that same presto 6qt pot that my mom got me, unfortunately I've only used it like 5 times in the last 2 years and am constantly looking for new meals to cook in it. I've done whole chicken, beans, artichoke and attempted pressure fried chicken with less than desirably skin and really oil logged.. Anyways cheers !!
Thank you for your kind words. I'm so glad I was able to help you out in the kitchen. Holler for me anytime you think I could help again.
Very nice video! Thanks, My Ma gave me her pressure cooker and I miss her pinto beans and she used her cooker to cook'em up in a hurry. Thanks so much for your help! Now I've subscribed to your videos!
You are so welcome, Steven!
I'm glad I could be of some help.
Hi Michelle, you need to get your hands on the owner's manual for your pressure cooker. Google around or contact the manufacturer. The owner's manual has all the cooking charts and recipes you need to properly cook food in the pressure cooker. I've kept my all these years and I STILL refer to it because I can't possible remember how long each veggie or beans take to cook.
Thanks for saying so Jill :). I've got a lot of respect for shearers, that is some serious hardwork! And a remaining industry where machine has not bettered man so tell your friends to keep on coming :).
Hi, I loved your video. You had mentioned that you add oil to your pot but you didn't know why. Oil is added to the water in a pressure cooker to change the surface tension of the water so that it is less likely to foam up and come out the vent hole (long pipe thinggie).
It's a rainy day, and I wanted beans and cornbread. Thanks for saving me the trouble of calling my mom!
Call your mom, anyway! She would love to hear from you when you don't want anything. ;D
thanks for the cooking lesson. i've had a pressure cooker for years, and i finally got the nerve to try it. i used the bacon fat, and the beans came out great!...and btw, you look cute as all get up in that little top! =o. thanks again! =)
THANK YOU, Mr. Fiesty! I'm so glad we worked this out. Please let me know when you get those beans worked out, and let me know what else you learn to cook in your new cooker.
Awesome Information. Thank you for educating me...I"m new to this.
Thank you for describing it. No, I'm not familiar with it. What's the actual name, model & size of the cooker? Do you have the owner's manual?
Excellent video! I'm a vegetarian and I bought my pressure cooker ions ago in the hopes of making cheap bean dishes. Three years later, after I cleared the dust off of it and got angry at the manual- I searched and found your video. Very well done! I tried the recipe almost immediately. Results? I added way too much water (I think...I'm very very accident prone, so the threat of exploding stuff scared me to death), so the beans are cooked, but bland. You gave a great explanation that even I couldn't fudge up (well, not a lot anyways). I will definitely check out your other pressure cooker vids. Hoping there are vegetarian ones! Thanks a bunch!
HA! I feel like a dope- I should've checked out your main page before I posted this. Very cool veg stuff! Keep on posting
thanks. my cookers instructions are in spanish and I wanted to make sure my translation was spot on. your video answered all my concerns and was very informative. I can now proceed with confidence. thanks again. if you don't mind drunken rambling I have a falafel from scratch video
Such a great video, thank you so much for your time!
I'm so glad, Alina. What have you cooked in your pressure cooker, so far?
Are you saying 15 minutes or 50 minutes to cook the beans once the cooker reaches pressure? I assume 15, but I want to check. Thanks for the video.
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Thank you asking that question, I went back and listened a few times and was still asking the same thing, but anyway now I know 50 minutes, :)
Oh THANK YOU, Kantian Nanbo! I, too, have a 23qt. canner, but I've never had the need to cook beans in it. Please come back and let me know how many pounds of beans, how much water and seasonings it took to feed Hernet Post 53.
Thanks for the great video and info. Bought a PC today and just made ham and beans. I am shocked at how dry beans go to perfect in about 20 minutes. Dinner for tonight and freeze for later. Thanks again.
Thank you for making this so simple for me! You are easy to watch because you are so relaxed in front of the camera, and you have a nice voice :) Loved cooking with you in your kitchen and me in mine :) Will watch your other video's!
You're funny. Thank you so much for this tutorial. I just got a pressure cooker, but I am mortified to use it :o. My grandmother got severe burns years ago from a pressure cooker incident. I am a shaking mess trying to get this thing going for some chickpeas tonight :0.
Awesome! I'm so glad I could help.
once again another great video, thanks to you now I can make fresh beans on my new 4 qt presto pressure cooker. thank you, stay home dad in the learning process..YEAHH
I love you.
You made my life so much easier.
Blessings and more Blessings Thank you for sharing
Thsi video helped me a lot, thank you so much!
Electric Pressure cookers are the way to go! Easy, safe - two parts -lid and cooker. You can cook virtually anything in pressure cookers from beans to meats to vegetables. Great video, but I will use the electric pressure cooker anyday over the "standard." Love your videos and I still pre-soak beans..
Thank you, Anne! Please come back and let me know how everything went your first time. I'm excited for you! ;D Happy Sunday!
great video , can you show more food cooked in pressure cooker
Thanks.. I make beans at least 3 times a week (6lbs) and I bought a 10qt pressure cooker to help me save time.. I'm going to try this tonight.. Thanks for sharing 👍
That's a lot of musical fruit, Yolanda! How many are in your family?
Lol.. There's only 3 of us and since we are Mexican it is the main side dish for our meals. But idk why, but we don't get gas .. Maybe our body is so use to always eating it? Idk :)
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Hi SDR, try putting 1/8 or1/4 tsp of baking soda in the beans it helps to keep the music down lol. Look it up.
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Hi beans have 9 grams of fiber per 1 c & we need 21-30+ grams of fiber daily. When we get enough fiber a day it cuts down on the gas/musical fruit as SDR calls it.
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Oh & or a tablespoon or two of dried parsley. helps with the gas issue.
THANK YOU for watching, 8632Tony! I'm glad I could be of some help. ;D
How do you know how long (time) to cook foods? I bought a pressure cooker about two years ago and never use it because I am not sure how long to cook different foods in it. Thanks for any tips!
Where did you get your Mexican chilli powder at I love your video's
That's right! Thank you, Keeliey!
Jill, I just watched this pressure cooker video for beans, and we're going to try it (after we get a pressure cooker). (I live beans, my mom goes along with it). Thank you much. I learned much. Question: ¿can one soak beans overnight (red kidney beans)? ¿What pressure cooker do you recommend purchasing, please? Thank you much.
After the pressure cooker is in cooking mode, how many minutes do the beans cook?
Hi Gerardaven! All the way from NZ? I love it! I want to visit there someday. I have friends that spend 3 months there sheering sheep just to help out. They say it's the best place on earth.
Awesome instructions, thanks so much :)
Hi HiFi1975! Congratulations on your new pressure cooker! Unfortunately, we cannot cook beans and rice together. That would be awesome. Read your owner's manual and keep it in a handy place. There are full instructions and recipes for rice and how long to cook certain types of beans. I can never remember how long it takes to cook Navy beans, and it's not as long as pinto beans.
Thank you so much SDR for recipe for the beans video, I got a pressure cooker like yours for a year now and don't have any good recipes. I'm afraid I will burn stuff since I don't know how long or how high to cook things in it. Or how much liquid to put in it so it wont run dry lol. Plus you are a cute lil thing that makes it easy for me to watch your videos. I did subscribe and thumbs up hope to see more pressure cooking videos in the future. ~mark~
@tomisnt I hear ya loud and clear. I tell my kids all the time about the importance of knowing how to grow their own food. We don't live in the country, but inside the city limits. We keep a small garden. When our favorite fruits and vegetables are in season, I go to canning and freezing. I figure if it's part of me, it has to rub off and become a part of them.
I'm glad to hear ur living healthier,but I'm not ready to take that step yet.So what I do is substitute the liquid smoke and oil for a smoked ham hock.When the beans are done I use half w/my rice and the other half I smash w/ an old fashion potato masher (remember those?).The kids will never eat bean dip out of a can again.I'm glad folks like you are out there making these videos-pressure cookers ROCK and they're safe.My IQ is= to a second coat of paint and I've been using this method for years
Wonderful video. I used to pressure cook everything. The best recipe I never quite got right though is pressure fried chicken. Have You ever done this one? Pressure fried chicken from my mother in laws hang out years ago was the only one and we used to travel over 2 states to get it for dinner. I would love to see that recipe. It was the best chicken I remember next to barbeque. I now have an electric pressure cooker. It is very pretty and does; yes it does work just like a pressure cooker for stoves.
can't tell if the time is 15 or 50 minutes, i know 15 will work, but may seem a little undone but 50 min. in a pressure cooker is a very long time, usually reserved for canning?
Almost no matter the food i always use an inside no handle pot on bottom seperator with water enough for time required, plus water for the food being cooked. preventsany burning, regards
It's 50 minutes for dry pinto beans. If the beans are soaked in hot water for an hour, then the cooking time is only 25 minutes.
I'm not sure I follow your tip. You place a pot inside the cooker surrounded with water, and put the food inside the inner pot? How large is your pressure cooker? How much food is being cooked at one time?
Is something wrong with my pot? It's new and it never chattered. It just made a few huge steam releases almost like a train and I saw some foam come up. Did I not put enough oil in with my beans? I never saw any constant rocking or chattering. :o
50 minutes after the pressure is reached works great for me, thank you Simple Daily Recipes for making this video. It sure saves me lots of time! :)
Wow, this was really helpful and amazing! Thank you so much for the video. I will have to buy a pressure cooker, wish I still had my grandmothers :(
I just bought a 6qrt presto and I am so nervous to use. We are vegan and beans are in our daily diet! We also don't use oil so is it necessary to use it? The directions say so to prevent foam but I just can't phantom adding oil to our meals. Please tell me I can get away without adding it! Great video though and I feel much more confident now. I will be using it tomorrow!
Followed this and made the most perfect kidney beans ever in 15 minutes. I have the same pressure cooker. Thanks for the vid. :)
Thank you, Hollie, for coming back to share your results with all of us. Don't forget to share this channel with your cooking friends.
You're welcome, Salobrena. Now you know what to expect. From here on out, it's all about learning how different beans cook up. And for those times, when the beans don't cook up tender in the alloted time, just put the lid back on the cooker, get the pressure back up, and cook another 15 minutes or however long you think it would take to get them tender.
Jill you said add water 2 inches above the beans! What would you say about Rice .I allways put in to much or not enough and thanks for the video keep up the good work.
Doodles Pachesco I'm sorry I haven't replied sooner. Your question was hidden in another folder. When it comes to brown rice in the pressure cooker, I have consistent results with 2 cups rice, 2 1/2 cups water. Once the pressure is up, cook 20 minutes, remove cooker from heat source and set aside 10 minutes. Depending on the your pressure cooker (stove top or electric) release the remaining pressure as directed by the its manual.
I have cooked only with Basmati rice white and brown. I will give you both recipes. I take a steel bowl(flat/round) .take one cup of rice. rinse for 3 times. Drain all water. Now for white rice add 1 + 3/4 cups of water. For brown rice add 1+ 1/4 cup of water. Add 1 cup of water in the pressure cooker. Now let the steel bowl full of rice and water float on the water. close the lid and cook. Remember brown rice takes double the time to cook. cooked Rice comes out prefectly fine, Don't have to worry about rice sticky or stuck on the pan and easy to clean . This way you can cook batches of rice over and over again for a large group of people within no time.
I prefer not to cook direct on the pressure cooker pan to avoid cumbersome cleaning.
Thankyou helped me alot.
You're welcome, urban poison! THANK YOU for watching, I hope you subscribed to my channel. ;D I plan to post more pressure cooking videos in the new year with a focus on soups and vegetable medleys.
Hi Steven! I'm sorry I didn't respond sooner. These new YT channel changes have me confused. To answer your question, I'm a Presto gal all the way. My grandmother used Presto... they're built to last. I'm not completely sold on the electric cookers, mainly because they would take up valuable counter space. (I really use my pc several times a week.) However, my single aunt lives in a small place & LOVES her electric cooker bc it doesn't heat up her place. If you have a family, go with a 6-qt.
I laughed when she said her daughter does not like to see onions in her beans. I'm not a fan of cooked onions at all - they creep me the hell out - and refuse to eat anything with visible onions.
Glad there are others like me out there. :)
THANK YOU, Janet! My ease in front of the camera comes from being an only child growing up. I spent A LOT of time in front of the mirror keeping myself company. Is that too much information? ;D Now you think I'm a nut-job, right?
@msgamerette86 What's the tip?
1 teaspoon of what per cup of rice? or is it a tablespoon?
What does the rice have to do with the beans?
I've never had a clogged gasket from cooking beans. I could see how foam from rice would clog a gasket or vent pipe. Then again, I've never tried cooking rice in a pressure cooker. Presto instructs us to place the water and rice in a boil wrapped with a tight fitting foil lid then the bowl is set inside the cooker. Water is then pour around the bowl.
Got a new Fagor pressure cooker and I look forward to trying your pinto beans recipe.
"If your family is gassy like mine... it doesn't matter!". Hahaha thanks for the video I love the bean flavoring you use, I use this recipe a lot now :). Cheers from NZ.
I would like to also add that my wife and I are recently retired, fixed income, and all the baggage such stuff brings. We bought a small travel trailer to get away in. When we learned about the energy savings a pressure cooker provides we bought two of them. A larger GSI pressure cooker for the house and a smaller GSI pressure cooker for use in the trailer while on the road. We like to travel to remote areas that typically have no services. In such places we rely on propane from a couple of five gallon tanks. We like beans for all their goodness but cooking them for 2 to four hours is a huge propane consumption. The little GSI pressure cooker cuts that time down to less than 10 minutes if we presoak them overnight... easy enough to do no matter where we are. I am keen on the GSI pressure cookers because they are quite compact (no extended handles to deal with), light weight, and pack away quite nicely. GSI is an outdoor company that caters to backpackers, campers, and hikers. A Google search will find them... and no, I have no affiliation with GSI whatsoever. I just like the products they make.
Excellent video thank you sweetheart..
My grandmother had a pressure cooker and her beans were our favorite meal. We were poor but to us, that was filet minion! I found a mirro pressure cooker and have already purchased/ordered 3 gaskets and it still will not pressure cook. I enjoyed your video, maybe you can give me some pointers? 😊
Back in 2014, I upgraded to a 6-quart Instant Pot® DUO 7-in-1 Pressure Cooker. I own three Instant Pot®, a 3-quart, a 6-quart, and an 8-quart. I use the 3-qt and 8-qt several times a week.
ddd123, you can use that extra cooking liquid in your next chili dinner. Store the cooking liquid in a good freezer container and put it up in the freezer until you're ready to make chili.
you could use that liquid to make a simple sauce to put on your rice
kcl060, I'm sorry I didn't respond quicker. I just found your questions.
What brand of cooker do you have? I know they are not all made the same. Do you still have the instruction manual? (Don't ever toss it away.)