Begin with the appliance and recipe
Find the model, capacity and official instructions for your cooker. Then look for a suitable pressure-cooker recipe for the dish you want to prepare. Keep the original cooking method separate from the new one in your notes.
A universal percentage cannot account for every ingredient, food size, pressure programme or release method. This site therefore does not turn an oven or stovetop time into a claimed pressure-cooker time.
Do not scale every instruction proportionally
The recipe scaler multiplies numeric ingredient amounts. It does not determine the cooker’s minimum liquid, maximum fill, release method or programme. Those instructions are separate from ingredient arithmetic.
Instant Pot’s Duo guidance gives different minimum liquid quantities for different pot capacities. This illustrates why a value from one model or size should not be presented as a universal requirement. Read the current manual for the actual appliance.
Distinguish cooking from the whole process
The time entered for a pressure programme is not necessarily the total time required by a recipe. Preparation, reaching the selected cooking condition and completing the specified release procedure all belong to the process.
Keep the recipe’s release instruction next to its cooking setting when saving or printing it. An adaptation that omits the release method is missing part of the recipe.
Use conversions for the part they can answer
Unit tools can help you read a recipe written in another measurement system. The ingredient converter can estimate a supported mass-to-volume amount. Neither operation confirms that a recipe is suitable for a pressure cooker.
For a larger batch, review capacity and the relevant instructions before relying on the scaled list. If the original recipe or manufacturer does not support the change you intend, find an appropriate tested recipe instead of inventing a timing rule.