A pressure cooker is an airtight cooking device that cooks food quickly. Pressure cooker, hermetically sealed pot which produces steam heat to cook food quickly. The higher temperature of a pressure cooker penetrates food quickly, reducing cooking time without diminishing vitamin and mineral content. Pressure cookers are especially useful at high altitudes, where they alleviate the problem of low temperature boiling caused by reduced atmospheric pressure.
The pressure cookers are extensively used in household for preparing food. The pressure cookers have preference over the conventional cooking utensils due to the advantage of retaining the nutritive value and flavour of the cooked food and less time required for cooking and thus effecting considerable savings in time and fuel.
The Indian small appliances market continues to grow strongly. The increased purchasing power and evolving lifestyle has made the market extremely attractive. Out of all the pressure cookers sold annually, the South accounts for almost 40% of pressure cookers sales in India. Induction based pressure cookers have become more popular in FY'16-17.
It has been observed, keeping in view the average family, which medium size/capacity pressure cookers have greater market. With the rapid advancement in the general living standards of the people, the demand of pressure cookers is increasing day by day. Accordingly, there is great scope for setting up of the new units for manufacture of pressure cookers to standard specifications.