"This recipe fills a 6L/qt pressure cooker half-way - this is the maximum fill level for beans in a pressure cooker. Do not double this recipe unless you're using a 12L/qt pressure cooker. As-is this recipe feeds 6-8 people. Substitute the lentils with any variety of whole lentil. The same pressure cooking time is given for both stove top and electric pressure cookers in this recipe because although the stove top pressure cooker cooks "hotter", at a higher pressure, than electrics the natural release is actually a bit faster. So, the electric pressure cooker compensates for this cooking temperature difference by actually cooking the food further during the longer Natural Release (almost 30 minutes for electric versus about 15 for stove top)...."