Originally Posted by
LenaBeena
Took me a bit to fully appreciate my slow cooker, microwave, convection oven and now instant pot. But now I wouldn't cook without any of them! As for a fad, I would nominate the bread baker. Remember those from years ago? Now you can't give them away at yard sales. Another fad from the 70's is back again....fondue pots. Wonder what's next?
I have never had a bread maker, but I do have and use fondue pots. We have fondue, cheese, beef broth and chocolate every Christmas Eve and a couple other times a year. I have 3 fondue pots. They also work great to keep gravy hot if you are having a buffet. Or beef dip broth.
I was regifted an instant pot, Mum was given one for Christmas, used it once and passed it along to me. I used it once to make a recipe from a Taste of Home Magazine. Yuck, it was awful, so much that I wrote to the magazine and complained that they could not possibly have tested the recipe. It was supposed to be for an apple dessert. We cooked as instructed and it was mostly raw. I had to cook it for another 40 minutes in the oven, but it still tasted nasty. Way too much sugar.
I may use it again, but for now it is back in the box.