Look, over on the counter. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s an electric pressure cooker.

Your great-grandparents likely owned some of the best pressure cookers of their day. Your grandparents probably had one as well and most of us have heard a horror story of a pressure cooker blowing up on grandmas kitchen stove back in the day.

They are still around, and they never completely disappeared and are used by the home canner to this day.

They only vanished from the average American kitchen in favor of the simplicity and speed of a microwave and the carefree convenience of a hands-off slow cooker. Before then, a good quality pressure cooker was simply the fastest way to cook one-pot meals for the entire family.

Fast forward to the twenty-first century, and you’ll note that, with a few safety features added and the addition of an electrical cord, the electric pressure cooker has emerged as a kitchen tool superhero. As for one-pot meal convenience, the best electric pressure cookers of today are probably among the best electric pressure cookers ever made.

There are lots of electric pressure cookers that have reviews out there. It all boils down to this, a good electric pressure cooker will not only work as an electric pressure cooker, but it can also replace your slow cooker, rice cooker, steamer, yogurt maker, warmer, sterilizer, and so much more. There are even versions of electric pressure cookers that can you can use to make a cake or even replace that single function air fryer sitting over on the other counter in your kitchen.