folks at work tell me these are like MAGIC!maybe I'll get one....
>>21630359Yes, I love it. Perfect for beans and stock. Very good for stews. Recently I've been looking into the current models just out of curiosity, and it seems they also have one with an air fryer top (so the box will come with two lids, one for normal and pressure cooking, and the other for air frying/grilling/baking (an oven). Honestly, I don't see much use in the latter if you already got an over or an air fryer, and if you don't, I feel it'd be better to just get a dedicated tabletop one anyway. That being said, it'd seem kinda nice to be able to roast your bones in the pot then make your stock, but a normal oven or tabletop will do the same.BTW, HUGE COMMENTInstantpots are NOT good slow cookers. Like, if you expect to use it like a crock pot, the issue is that the slowcooker won't to high enough temps. It seems people have found ways to rig it right, or even just pressure cook the recipe to get a similar/better product (what I do), but it's something to note.
>>21630359They're okay. They are excellent rice cookers, and mediocre at best at everything else.
>>21630359I use mine all the time. I pressure cook bean soups and chilis a ton
>>21630359Great for beans, rice, stew. I do lazy pork carnitas in mine too.
>>21630359A rice cooker with a slow cooker function and a pressure cooker will serve you betterI have all three the Instapot lives somewhere in the basement I'm not even exactly sure where
>>21631198I never use my IP for rice since I have a rice cooker, but I use it as a pressure cooker all the time. Is a dedicated pressure cooker better than an IP at pressure cooking things?
>>21631222Stovetop pressure cookers typically run at higher pressures and work fasterThat being said, they are a little more dangerous in the tiny fraction of malfunctionsInstapot, like a rice cooker, can be turned on and more or less abandoned to go work or do errands
>>21631227oh, yeah, the set it and walk away factor is one of my favorite things about the IP. I'd probably get sidetracked, hear a boom, and find my kitchen covered in beans at some point.
>>21631233When I was like, 14 or 15 my dad blew up a pressure cooker making black beansAll the black beans shot out the pressure valve and were atomized in a volcanic spray that embedded into the kitchen ceilingNo one was hurt but the bean was embedded so deep in the paint that we had to strip it down to sheet rock, sand it, and repaint it allWe tried to paint over it a couple of times but the bean just worked its way back through Black bean spray is a pleasant, if unevenly spread shade of purple
>>21630359I've used mine to make corned beef a few times, and some wet roasts (same thing really). It's super easy.Also I sometimes brown the skin of chicken drumsticks then kinda wet roast those to make pulled chicken, then use the bones to make soup
>>21631251poetic
I now own two pictured. Bought to make my scratch backpacking meals rehydratable. Use for a lot of other things like yogurt, stocks, rice, beans, chicken, and chowders. Worth it for me.
i only use mine when I make ragu which is once or twice a year
>>21630359They're not magic but they are useful. Have reasonable expectations instead of retarded ones and you'll find it a good addition to your kitchen.
>>21630359Instant Pots are great because they are retard-proof pressure cookers
>>21631251For me, it was the pressure cooker lid that got embedded in the kitchen's plywood ceiling. Thank God no one got hurt.good times
>>21630359it tends to turn things like stew to mush since you cant really stagger ingredients based on cooking time. its good for soups, beans and pulled meat
>>21631484I make the stew without the veg first, then after I release the pressure I boil the veg for 15 minutes
>>21630359My friend used this exclusively until his house was flooded during a hurricane and his pot floated away.He said he could cook everything that didn't require an open flame, but the pressure cooking feature was not as good as a dedicated pressure cooker. But i still don't get it, if you have electricity why not use an induction or resistive stovetop at that point? You'll be able to use standard pots and pans.The only valid reason to use these in my mind is if you're really hurting for space and can't afford 3-4 different pans/saucepans
>>21631730>But i still don't get it, if you have electricity why not use an induction or resistive stovetop at that point?Because this cooks everything 10x faster and is fire and forget. I don't even use regular pots anymore, except when boiling pasta.
