{"id":780190,"date":"1969-12-31T18:00:00","date_gmt":"1969-12-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/origin-www.tasteofhome.com\/?p=780190"},"modified":"2025-05-14T01:29:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T06:29:00","slug":"best-pressure-cooker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteofhome.com\/article\/best-pressure-cooker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Pressure Cookers of 2024, According to Our Test Kitchen Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"Not too long ago, \"pressure cooker<\/a>\" referred to a simple stovetop appliance. But throughout the last decade, programmable pressure cookers have become the trendiest bit of kitchen gear (until the air fryer<\/a> came along, that is).\r\n\r\nNow, these small appliances do so much more than just pressure-cook; they saute, slow-cook, make yogurt and more. All these functions mean that electric pressure cookers are more aptly called multicookers<\/a>.\r\n\r\nThe market is now flooded with all sorts of fancy multicookers that offer delicious meals fast. But with so many brands to choose, how do you know which is worth the hype? Although our pressure-cooker buying guide can help, we know there's nothing like a head-to-head test.\r\n\r\nOur Test Kitchen<\/a> had to know: Does Instant Pot really give the best results when making these pressure-cooker recipes<\/a>, or is there another multicooker out there that deserves a spot on your counter?\r\n

How We Found the Best Multicooker<\/h2>\r\n[dam-video dam-id=\"49501\"]\r\n\r\nTo get to the bottom of that question, our Test Kitchen put the most popular multicookers through their paces in a product test<\/a>. Our pros, including pressure-cooking expert and Senior Food Stylist Shannon Norris<\/a>, experimented with each model's settings using recipes submitted by our readers<\/a>. Each model was scored according to how it performed against these criteria:\r\n