Under Pressure. Any Instant Pot Heads Here?

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We have been pressure cooking for a couple of years now. Millions of Instant Pots have been sold.

The Facebook group is overwhelming with more than a million members, it would be nice to find a little cozy corner to exchange tips and tricks with CAFers!
 
I don’t get the new fascination.

My great grandparents cooked with pressure cookers and crock pots. YAY, they are one machine. Woop de doo. I don’t see it as that amazing of an innovation.

I suppose one could find plenty of recipes in old cookbooks. I know that years ago there were even church cookbooks based on pressure cooker & slow cooker recipies.
 
I can grab a chuck roast from my deep freeze and have it cooked falling apart tender on my table in two hours.

Soup? Decided we wanted a big pot of veg beef soup. From scratch, it was on the table in 40 minutes with that melded flavor that would take hours in a stock pot and the beef was so tender.

Pressure cooking retains more of the nutrition, allows me to speed braise, to cook a pot of dry beans in no time, it does not replace every other cooking method but it sure does make scratch cooking easier.
 
I don’t need one, but it looks like a good design.

Just curious, can you bake in it (bread, cake, pie, cobbler)?
 
I am glad that you are enjoying yours. 🙂

I have been interested in them, and have heard great things about them, and know others that use them too, and absolutely love theirs.

I already have a pressure cooker and a slow cooker, so I don’t know if I would need one right now, but that isn’t to say that I wouldn’t be interested in getting one in the future, though. 🙂
 
Because it is a wet cooker, using steam in a sealed environment, no. Baking is a dry heat method.

People do make steamed cakes in pressure cookers, that is a whole sub group of the big community.
 
I have a pressure cooker and a crock pot. I think that an Instant Pot is something of a jazzed up, electric PC. I don’t have a Instant Pot so I really don’t know. Perhaps someone can explain the differences between th two for me. Peace.
 
It is an electric pressure cooker.

The safety features are what sold me. Lifting a pressurized pot over to the sink when the thing I am cooking calls for “quick release” is not my idea of fun!
 
Don’t you miss the groups on the old CAF? I thought we were supposed to have groups here?
 
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