How your pressure cooker pays for itself!by Robin McKenzie We've all heard that cooking in a pressure cooker saves you time. But how does this time-savings translate into real energy savings in dollars and cents? We've put together a sample of some of the dishes that a typical family might cook in a week. Remember that foods cook in about 1/3 the time of conventional methods. You will notice that some of the most dramatic savings are the roast pork (or pot roast) at 1 hour and 30 minutes in the electric oven (you must remember to calculate preheating), versus cooking the same dish in a pressure cooker on a gas stove. You save .82 cents every time you cook that dish. This may not seem like much; but, say you cook something like this once a week. That comes to $42.64 in yearly savings just for cooking that one dish once a week in your pressure cooker! The grid below shows how you can save over $325.00 per year when you cook under pressure. At this rate, the Kuhn Rikon pressure cooker virtually pays for itself in under 6 months! Prorate the savings over the 20-year life of your Pressure Cooker, and that's a savings (at today's rates) of $6500.00.
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