Have you gotten an Instant Pot yet? Seriously, what are you waiting for? The Instant Pot
Let’s back up a bit in case you’re like me, and had no idea what an Instant Pot was.
The Instant Pot is a really safe and polite pressure cooker from Canada. It’s got not just one, not just two, but 10 proven safety mechanisms. If you’ve cooked with a pressure cooker you know that they aren’t always safe. I’ve exploded a couple in my time. In fact, it was a rite of passage growing up. My dad gave me a pressure cooker when I moved out. The kind that goes on top of the stove. I’d seen him explode one once or twice so I was prepared. It didn’t help. Good thing I wanted to paint my ceiling again anyway.
So safety is important. Just look at how wonderfully safe it is!
Did I mention polite? It’s Canadian so it has to be. Still, the box cracked me up. American products are all like plug me in and hopefully I’ll work right. Not this lovely Canadian Instant Pot, it’s saying please and thank you all over the place. Also the instruction manual, it’s got a cheat sheet since it understands no one ever reads those things. It’s also got a website which is really helpful with tips, tricks and recipes.
Getting back to safety…. The Instant Pot pressure cooker is safe, it as a release valve on it so you can let out all of the steam and not burn off your face or blast beef stew all over your kitchen ceiling, two really important features.
You may have seen those infomercials on late night TV where the guy cooks a metric ton of chicken wings in about 5 minutes. That’s the Power Pressure Cooker
So, what all does the Instant Pot do?
Instant Pot – Does it All and More!
- Slow cook
- Rice
- Soups
- Chili
- Oatmeal
- Stews
- Hot dish (casseroles for you non Minnesotans)
- Yogurt (seriously, you can make yogurt in this thing!!!)
- And basically anything you might cook on the stove or in the oven you can cook in the Instant Pot for a fraction of the time.
Cooking with pressure allows you to cook foods faster and to retain their moisture, unlike conventional oven cooking. Because you can do it all in one pot, you save yourself all kinds of cleanup. Because you can do it in a fraction of the regular cooking time there’s no excuse to feed your family healthy meals because you didn’t think ahead and pull something out of the freezer so now you’re grabbing your keys and heading to the nearest drive thru.
Life Changing Cooking Appliance
Instant Pot (and pressure cooking) has been a thing for a couple of years now, but recently Amazon put it on sale for its Prime Day at something like $69. Normally it sells for from $100 to $159 (with the Power Pressure Cooker running about the same), so at $69 it’s a bargain, hell buy two, you’ll use them.
I got the Instant Pot IP-DUO60 7-in-1 Multi-Functional Pressure Cooker, 6Qt/1000W
The only drawback that I can see to the Instant Pot is that you cannot can with it. It’s too small at only 6 quarts (you need a 10 quart vessel to can properly). The Power Pressure Cooker does have a canning feature, so if that’s what you’re looking for be sure to check it out. I don’t can that often (though I would like to), so I’d use my huge ass canning pot if I needed to.
Have you gotten your Instant Pot
I love cooking supplies but I am sceptical because I cook vegetarian. Are there vegetarian recipes as well?
Absolutely there are vegetarian. Here’s a link to a quick search on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_2_17?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=vegetarian+pressure+cooker+cookbook&sprefix=vegetarian+pressu%2Caps%2C155. Anything you can make in a slow cooker or frying pan or stock pot can be cooked in a pressure cooker, just a lot faster and more flavorful. It makes broths and stocks quickly.