Using a pressure cooker tenderizes octopus faster than any other method.
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The Fastest Way to Tenderize Octopus for Your Recipes? We Tried a PPCXL Pressure Cooker – Product Review
Serious Mealtimes / Vicky Wasik
Octopus. Perhaps no food has inspired more ridiculous cooking tricks to get better results faster. There are the cork crusaders the vinegar fanatics the bashing believers the daikon disciples and the salt-kneading proponents. They offer theories about the tenderizing effects of enzymes and tannins and acetic acid and brine—and in some cases like the acetic acid in vinegar there’s even a grain of truth to the strategy—but ultimately octopus still takes a long time to cook and strikes fear into the rubbery hearts of home cooks everywhere.
Well I’m here to tell you two things. First forget the gimmicks: most of them don’t work to accomplish the basic task (cooking the octopus long enough to tenderize it) and the ones that do will only take a few minutes at most. Second if you really want a rock-solid method for cooking octopus fast all you need to do is grab a pressure cooker. How quickly does a pressure cooker turn an octopus from a chew toy to a fully chewable toy? Try 15 minutes. All those cork people can… put a cork in it.
