Ayurved Rishi, Vagbhatt Ji says very authentically that while cooking our food should be in contact with air otherwise it will be a slow poison for us.
Currently all of us cook our food mostly in pressure cookers. Old practice of cooking in open earthen container or Brassware with "Kalli coating" is slowly getting extinct.
Storage in refrigerator and cooking in microwave is also not good for health as it cuts air contact of food.
General perception is that cooking in pressure cooker saves times & money spent on cooking fuel.
However we ignore that pressure cooker violates the basic rule of cooking as propagated by all Maharishis of Ayurved including Vagbhatt.
Due to this, the pressure cooker was probably not developed or used in our glorious ancient times.
The longer an item takes to ripen in the field, the longer it will take to cook at home. The quick pressure cooking makes the food useless for our body.
Eating food cooked in pressure cookers is very bad for health. While cooking in pressure cookers the grains, pulses etc. get soft quickly as it gets overheated in high pressure but remain uncooked.
The time & money we save by cooking in pressure cookers will surely be spend by us on curing illness.
In open container, food is in contact with air. As per the design of nature the temperature of water in open container never goes beyond 100degree centigrade as above this temperature the water converts to steam and escapes in atmosphere along with latent heat.
Thus while cooking under normal atmospheric pressure & temperature below 100degree centigrade the softening of our food occurs slowly & simultaneously with the food getting fully cooked.
The food which is properly cooked for a longer time in low temperature & normal pressure gets easily digested in our stomach with secretion of lesser acids saving us from acidity and high acidic levels in our body.
High Acidic level of our blood & other body cells cause negative emotions of anger, greed, lust, jealousy and arrogance.
Mineral and vitamins content in properly digested food are easily absorbed by our body within the small intestine.
Better absorption of minerals and vitamin improves our immunity, health, dynamism, bravery, patriotism, popularity and personal achievement.
After complete digestion and absorption leftover material reach our large intestine without containing any organic matter.
This inorganic excreta doesn't ferment in our large intestine therefore methane & other flatulence gases are not produced. Absence of gastritis lead to absolute happiness, prosperity and contentment.
On the other hand pressure cooker is a tightly sealed container and does not allow contact of air with food and restrict the steam from escaping the container.
The restricted steam increases the pressure within the cooker so much that sometimes it can cause pressure cooker to burst.
The trapping of steam restricts the release of excessive latent heat from the container. Thus, the overall temperature inside the cooker goes up to very high levels much beyond 100 degree centigrade. Under such high pressure the boiling point of water is also raised.
The excessive pressure and temperature buildup in the cooker quickly softens the food in a short duration which is approximately one fourth of the time it normally takes to soften our cereals & pulses in open container.
The softened food in pressure container does not necessarily mean that food is actually cooked & ready for Human consumption.
Cooking is complete not by mere softening but the cooked food should be easily digestible by our body.
Only after proper digestion our body will be able to absorb the vital nutrients like vitamins, minerals etc. from the food & make them available for our body needs.
The uncooked and undigested food of pressure cooker becomes useless for the body thereby causing Diabetes, Bronchitis, TB, Asthma and forty eight other different ailments.
Best utensils for cooking are clay, kaansa and peetal or bronze in that order.
Researchers at the CDRI Lab in Lucknow (a central govt. body) have found that after cooking say Arhar daal in Clay pots we are able to retain hundred percent of the micro nutrients originally present in the daal, ninety three percent are left after cooking in kaansa utensils and eighty seven percent after cooking in peetal or bronze utensils.
Whereas after cooking the same daal in a pressure cooker only thirty one percent of these micro nutrients are absorbable.
Another harm of Pressure cooker is that these are mostly made of Aluminum which is worst metal for storing and cooking food.
Several scientific studies have proved that aluminum content in our food gets deposited in our neurons leading to several neurological problem like Alzheimer's Disease etc.
Aluminum container are banned in most countries of Europe like Germany etc.
Aluminum were compulsory introduced in Bharatiye Jail by the British to subdue our brave freedom fighter. Even today food is given in Aluminum containers in our Prisons.
We could have produced aluminum thousands of years ago. Our shastras had the techniques, but we used clay pots since it is the best from every angle.
No other natural material other than clay and Gau Mutr contains all the 18 micro nutrients.
Chronic diabetics who started doing all their cooking in clay pots saw that their sugar levels came down from 480 odd to 180 odd in less than a year.
In Jaganath Mandir of Orissa, Parsad Dal is cooked in earthen container. Earthen containers are so pure and cooking is divine in earthen container.
We all know Mithi Handi Dal is not only healthy but also very tasty. Our ancient food science is very relevant even today. 50 years most of us ate foods cooked in Earthen Handi.
Milk and Dal were always cooked in earthen pot. Food cooked in earthen pots becomes more nutritious and can be preserved for a longer period.
Kumhars are very scientific. They should be respected. But due to our apathy & cunningness of the British the kumhars are reduced to backward classes.
The kumhars are so knowledgeable that they can select proper Mithi for the pot as per the usage. In fact, Kumhar respect should be equal to Brahmins. As they are doing great public service.
