Originally Posted by
mandyrose
i bought one looks something like that from walmart last year, i got it mainly for pot roasts but i still can't figure out what i'm doing wrong,i marinate a chuck roast over night and next day i make as the manual says and i'm not happy with the way the meat turns out, it comes out very tender but tastless like all the flavoring was zap out of it and all flavor ends up in the juice ,vegetables come out good but not the meat i fix that by making gravy with the juice and smother the meat with it.wish i knew why. my chuck roasts always came out good in the stove top pressure cookers
Ok Mandyrose, let me help you with that tasteless pot roast:
Take chuck roast out of wrapper, rub with flour, push off and trash extra flour, brown in a fry pan with 2T oil on all sides (don't cook, just brown.
Put browned roast in crockpot, and smear top roast with 1 can cream of mushroom soup (& no additional liquid)
Sprinkle 1 envelope of dry Lipton onion soup on top of the mushroom soup (& no liquid to this soup either)
Now add 1 can of beef boullion or beef broth or beef consume soup around roast so it hits bottom of crock pot. If it is a giant roast, add 1/2 can of water too. Cook until tender (4-6hrs). You can do this in an oven bag, in the oven at 325-350 for 4/6 hrs too and I'm sure it works in you instant pot too. Anyway the flavor is wonderful, add celery, carrots, potatoes etc 1 hr before meat is done if you like that too (or cheat and cook those in the pressure cooker, but if you do the veg in a pressure cooker, the flavors don't meld together. You still have to combine them and simmer a while to get the flavors to merge. Good luck, better than marinating.