Instant pot?
#31
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Join Date: Aug 2010
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If you want to speed up the pre heating time just add your liquid to the pot & then put it on saute mode. It will start heating up the liquid pretty quickly. While that is heating, start putting your "food" items together. Put your food in the pot & then cancel the saute mode & change the setting to your cooking mode. It does shave off a bit of pre heating time.
#32
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 169
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I love my 8 qt for lots of reasons. I highly recommend going to pressurecookrecipes.com with Amy and Jacky for the best recipes and how tos. They explain and show everything well. Never had a bad recipe with them. I love sauteing for flavor and cooking in the same pot. I love the quality of the stainless steel liner and how well it heats evenly. I love not smelling it cooking all day like a slow cooker, although you can use it as a slow cooker. I recommend gettting the mesh basket and I put rotissiere chicken bones and leftovers in the basket and make bone broth- then just lift out the basket and toss the bones and veggies- so simple.
#34
One thing you have to be careful of with the instant pot when cooking soups is the thickness of the soup. We tried making a modified potato soup in ours recently & it was too thick & the "burn" alert kept coming on so we just turned it off & ate it like it was. We had already cooked every thing before we tried to put it through the soup mode but DH wanted to try the soup mode anyway. Seemed like unnecessary time used up to me but I went along with him & it was too think for the instant pot. Guess most soups have to be really, really thin. Lessons learned!
#35
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 1,538
I have one and I love it, it does take some time to come up to temp and start steaming. I use it mostly for pot roast, pork butt and chicken. Squash is so easy to make in it, wash it and throw it in whole. Take it out, let it cool to touch and then cut it and seed it.
#37
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Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 4,688
I have the Mealthy multicooker instead of the instapot. I use it at least twice a week since I like to sauté and slow cook in the same pot so I don't dirty dishes. I love it -- I even make some of the same items in the pot that I used to cook on the stove top since I found it contains the mess better. I did buy a glass lid so I don't wrestle with the pressure cooker lid.
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