Every Dragon Boat Festival, people have the custom of eating zongzi. But when cooking zongzi, we should also pay attention to many matters. If you cook zongzi in a pressure cooker, you only need to cook zongzi when adding water. If steaming is adopted, you can put zongzi on a steamer and boil water. But the cooking time will be longer. If you don't have time to pack your own dumplings, you can choose to go to the supermarket to buy them and quickly freeze them, which will also save time when cooking. Because the dumplings in the supermarket are ready-to-eat food, it takes about 5-10 minutes to cook. If a novice cooks zongzi at home, it will take different time depending on the pot. It takes 2-3 hours to cook the wrapped zongzi in an ordinary pot, and it takes about half an hour to cook the zongzi in a pressure cooker.

Some people only like to make their own dumplings when they eat zongzi, and feel more at ease. But the glutinous rice in the dumplings wrapped by myself is raw, so it takes time to cook. If the rice dumplings are cooked in a daily cooking pot, it will take about 2 hours to completely cook the glutinous rice in the rice dumplings. In this way, there will be no abdominal pain and diarrhea. If you cook in a pressure cooker, because the pressure is relatively high, it can obviously shorten the time.

And when cooking in a pressure cooker, it can be cooked in half an hour with a small fire. However, when taking zongzi, it should be noted that you must wait until the pressure cooker is completely deflated before opening the lid, otherwise there will be safety hazards. Most rural families burn firewood and cook zongzi in large iron pots. The time is also relatively long, because the firepower of firewood is not as strong as that of natural gas or gas stoves.

And if you don't add firewood in time, it is likely to lead to the fire going out. In this case, it takes about two hours to cook the zongzi soft and glutinous. When the novice Xiao Bai cooks zongzi at home by himself, he must put the zongzi first, and then release the water, so as to control the depth of the water. Make sure you don't eat zongzi completely, so that it can be heated evenly and there will be no undercooked situation. It only takes 10~ 15 minutes if you eat zongzi quickly, and it may take 2~3 hours when you cook zongzi if it is fresh glutinous rice.