This crowd-pleasing, fork-tender shallot-lemon chicken and vegetables is a great way to explore a pressure cooker’s versatility (and make a quick weeknight dinner).

But vegetables are the bête noire of the slow cooker, which is why my favorite, just-in-time-for-winter insight is: cabbage. It’s the ideal vegetable for the slow cooker: It wants to melt anyway.

If you ever watched your mom or grandmother use an old-school pressure cooker as a child, you probably saw them using a large, metal cylinder on the stovetop, filling it with water and letting it cook ...

Cooking under pressure. Time-crunched families do this most every evening. But if you really want to cook under pressure, it’s worth your time to take a new look at pressure cookers. Forget t… ...

Broccoli, in the pressure cooker? Remember, this was back when Americans didn’t know about cooking green vegetables to crisp-tender, so I didn’t think anything of her super-soft broccoli until ...

A pressure cooker is one of two ways a home cook can change the boiling point of water (the other being to move to a different altitude).

As a shortcut to getting dinner on the table quickly, we can’t say enough about the pressure cooker. In about the time it takes to reheat a frozen entrée, this pot can cook fresh meat, poultry ...

Not a meat-eater? No problem! The Puck Oven promises to cook casseroles, soups, vegetables, cookies, and anything else you'd make in a traditional oven, all in less time and while using less power.

Pressure cookers really are very cool devices. Because the lids clamp on and create a pressured, steam-driven environment, they allow you to cook at higher temperatures.

Using a slow cooker means that the kitchen can stay cool, and you can leave the veggies to cook on their own. Just make sure the vegetables are around the same size to ensure even cooking ...