Originally Posted by
peaceandjoy
Great thread. Maybe I'll get mine out of the basement, where it sits in the box that I came in when I bought it...
Some posts refer to it being different than a pressure cooker. I thought that Instant Pot was just a rebranding, if you will, to make people not think about the scare tactics from the old days?
It is a pressure cooker with other capabilities, but with many more safety features built in nowadays. My mom never had a pressure cooker because she was scared to death of getting burned. Those fears kept me from jumping right in to the IP craze, but after being convinced of the technology that has safeguards, I "bit." I do pull it away from my upper cabinets so that the steam doesn't bother the wood. And I use hot pads very carefully. I open the lid like a shield, with the steam on the opposite side of the "shield. " Yep, I may be paranoid but so far no burns from the IP.