Lets talk about the new Rave of Instant Pots

[LakeRat1]

I am wondering how many of U have a Instant Pot? what Brand? what size? what all have U cooked in it so far? How did what U cooked turn out? we have been thinking about one for quite some time, we see all the wonderful looking recipes on Pinterest, we have had a 8 qt. presto stove top cooker for years, and we use it for A number of things, You have to keep your mind on what U are doing when using one of these,

where it looks like one of the many plus for the Instant pot, is U set it and let it go depending on what U are cooking, One plus I see for my Bride and I is as U get older, U can easily for get U have something on the stove cooking, first thing U know U have a Mess, what every was cooking is burnt, and possibly the Pot is ruined >< don't ask me how I know

we use a crockpot for lot of thing, that one of the big pluses for a crockpot, U can set it and just about forget it

Thanks Rat

[tangentalstorm]

I got one a couple of years ago as a gift. I can't remember the brand but it does OK. For tougher meats it's a quick answer but I wouldn't say the results are stellar, just passable...You have to season it to death to get any flavor out of it..... for beans and such it's just eh...It doesn't seem to cook them well enough in my opinion plus being a Southern Hillbilly I set a high bar on my beans and how they are done. Haven't tried too much else with it to be honest.

My sister has one and LOVES it (she gave me the one I have) but my sister never could cook worth a fiddler's damn so I imagine her expectations are a wee bit lower than mine on food....lol

I have tried to teach her from time to time but it hasn't stuck really...she didn't quite learn the appreciation of the Hillbilly culinary arts from our mother like I did.

[Ragun Gardener]

I've used them before too and it's nothing like browning your meat in a regular pot. I bought the Presto Frymaster pressure cooker and still use it for quick meals, it's a pot about the size of a Magnalite but it's a pressure cooker so I brown the meat like normal then pressure it up to get the meat tender. It works better than the instapot cookers.

Here's a recipe if you have one, I haven't tried it so proceed at your own risk.
https://www.paintthekitchenred.com/instant-pot-jambalaya/#recipebegin

[LakeRat1]

Thanks Ragun That's just the Blog I was needing, looks to be a interesting Blog to dig around on 

Rat

[Ragun Gardener]

There's a Yahoo group on pressure cookers if you use yahoo. Yahoo is free to join, it's an email service many people use. They are a very active group always posting new recipes for anything you can think of.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/PressureCookerRecipes/files

[LakeRat1]

Thanks for that sight Ragun, I ordered a 6 qt. Instant Pot yesterday, after reading a lot of different Blogs, we decided we will give it a run, I am looking for something that U can set and forget, sort of like a crock pot, i see that when these pots finish cooking they go to a warm cycle,

as we get older i find that sometimes we have something cooking on the stove, first thing U know its run out of liquid and what ever was cooking is burnt to the bottom of the pot, i will let you'll know how this goes in a couple weeks

Rat

[GaTrapper]

My wife and I love ours. We had some trouble at first, but it was all user error. After watching loads of YouTube videos, our roasts and veggies come out perfect. We cook the majority of our meals in it now.

[LakeRat1]

Thanks Ga. after a lot of Looking, we did get us a Instant Pot, about a week ago, so far we have cooked Baking size potatoes, came out great,  cant wait to try out some of the recipes that we see

What are some of the things that you'll have cooked in your IP? where are U finding the most useful Info?

Rat

[Ragun Gardener]

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/instant-pot-units-cooker-model-melt-overheat/story?id=53351146

[corl]

We ave a little Instant Pot. Given to us for Xmas. Long and short of it - Nice to start cooking something and not do anything until you serve it. Doesn't really save you much/any time as you have to heat it up and let off the steam with a quicker cooking time. We use it and are finding out its limitations. Some really good meals with it.

[LakeRat1]

we have not cooked a lot of different things in ours yet, we have done Baking  Potatoes a couple times, in the oven it would take a hour or so to bake a couple potatoes, in the IP 45 Min start to finish, with a whole lot less energy being used, The Up side of using a Instant Pot for things like this is U can set i and forget it, as we get Older it is so easy to forget something on the stove, and forgetting a Pressure Pot on the stove would not Be Good Or Look very Good

we have always like to do fresh Irish Potatoes in a Pressure Pot, done this way U can eat skin and all, I came from a Big family, when we had New Potatoes, My Mother would do them in the Big caner Pressure cooker to have enough potatoes to feed the Family, This was the Meal along with a couple strips of bacon for each, plus lots of home made butter and some chopped onion, that a Meal fit for a King

Rat 

[Ragun Gardener]

Did you check the link I put up? Check your model for recalls.

[LakeRat1]

Thanks Ragun, I checked it out and i am good, Thanks for the heads up

Rat

[corl]

The recall is not the pressure cooker models. Did 5 minute hard boiled eggs in it yesterday and they turned out great. Set it and leave it. Let the steam out 5 minutes after the cycle finished and put the eggs in cold water.