Way back in 1937, the humorist James Thurber stuck it to this kind of pompous, meaning-free connoisseurship in a New Yorker cartoon showing a wine taster saying of a glass, “It’s a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you’ll be amused by its presumption.”
GRASS: Guilt, Resentment, Anxiety, Self-absorption, and Stress. These are the five real and measurable costs of not managing transition effectively. Remember them the next time people tell you there isn’t time to worry about the reactions of your employees to the latest plan for change. And help such people to see that not managing transition is really a shortcut that costs much more than it saves. For it leaves behind an exhausted and demoralized workforce at the very time when everyone agrees that the only way to be successful is to get more effort and more creativity out of the organization’s employees.
Before and after don’t matter. Now matters. You cannot help the people you love before and after, you can only choose to cause them pain or take on their pain now.’
As a very general rule, dishes based on beef, pork, or lamb made in 4 hours on high or 8 hours on low in the slow cooker can be made in 30 minutes in the pressure cooker. Poultry-based dishes may need only 20 minutes in the pressure cooker.
The total weight of meat does not affect pressure-cooking time, but the size of the pieces does. So, for example, if you’re cooking beef and lentils together, try cutting the beef into pieces that will be cooked through at the same time as the lentils (see the charts here for some general guidelines).
Red wine can be great in a slow-cooker stew, but keep in mind that in a pressure cooker there is no opportunity for the alcohol to evaporate. If your recipe calls for red wine, try cutting the quantity in half and reducing the wine using the Sauté setting before starting the pressure-cooking. Beer quantity can be maintained, but you’ll want to evaporate some of the alcohol: Allow some of the liquid to reduce using the Sauté setting after the pressure-cooking cycle.
