What do you do with your Instant Pot you cant do with a crock pot?

[buckeyefarmer]

Made Chicken Cacciatore for dinner with a recipe on Instant Pot App. Made a couple of changes. Used whole can of diced tomatoes and less water. Did not have any olives or celery. Texas garlic toast to dip in sauce. Very good.

Chicken Cacciatore Chicken Cacciatore - Instant Pot Recipes

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Looks good

 

[Sawyer Rob]

All of these latest pressure cookers (no matter the catchy name they give them these days) can't do anything more, than what my 21qt. American Canner (AC) pressure cooker can also do. (actually we have two AC's)

Long before the "instant pot" came on the market, I was sitting a small kettle in my AC and putting meat in it, to pressure can it into what ever I wanted. Any recipe you can do in these electric pressure canners can be done in any other pressure canner too.

The new style canners aren't any safer either, as my AC has a few built in fail safes, just like the instant pot does, what the new canners are, is a lot more convenient. Basically, set it and forget it. Meaning you don't have to adjust the fire under it to keep the pressure you want.

Yes, I do have a electric canner, mine is the "Power Pressure cooker" brand, and I do like it, it's easy to use, but like I said, it doesn't do anything "new".

One thing that is nice, my AC will work with any heat source, including on top of my wood fired cook stove, and that's nice when the power goes out!

SR

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Pressing a button and walking away till it is done is something new.

 

[txdon]

Pressing a button and walking away till it is done is something new.

. . .and it seems overkill to make a cup of rice in a 21Qt pressure cooker.

 

[California]

Pressing a button and walking away till it is done is something new.

Yes. What has made this 'inventor' a millionaire is he simplified the user's control over using a pressure cooker to where you can't go wrong. Delayed start, hold warm after cooking, and buttons for specific menus all work well and in particular, seem intuitive to the novice chef. This is new. I think many of us remember our mothers' anxiety over using a conventional pressure cooker, and the stories of disasters.

I bought a 3 qt Instant Pot then found a 6 qt off-brand at Goodwill for $7.50. I can see why that one was donated, its buttons are nearly identical to Instant Pot except they make no sense. First owner obviously gave up and abandoned it after using it a couple of times. What I learned with the first Instant Pot is essential to using this one because nothing about it is obvious. That off-brand is no longer sold, it was a closeout on TV Shopping Channel. Deservedly.

Robert Wang (instant pot inventor) really deserves the success he has found. His Instant Pot is like the difference an automatic transmission gives to a beginning driver, just do what seems obvious and everything comes out as expected.

 

[MossRoad]

I really like the keep warm feature. Couldn't do that with our pressure cookers.

 

[Trillium Farm]

These new pressure/slow cookers that are electronically controlled do an excellent job, much better than the "manual" ones as they don't need knowledge to operate, also the way they release steam is such that it helps with the cooking. The "manual" ones do reach a higher pressure point (17 psi I believe), but you have to be there to change the settings and I don't really think you can achieve the same results and IMO are not as versatile. :thumbsup:

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

My boss's wife makes yogurt in theirs. They have 2. They make plain yogurt to add to their Indian food.

 

[Doofy]

Perfect Beef Stew in 28 minutes. Stew meat was still frozen too. Potatoes, carrots and other veggies were perfectly cooked without being mushy.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Perfect Beef Stew in 28 minutes. Stew meat was still frozen too. Potatoes, carrots and other veggies were perfectly cooked without being mushy.

Sounds good!!