Anyone use an instapot cooker

Minor tangent: recommend instapot for family of 4 (two teens, two adults)?

Don't want the cheapest but not made of money either.
 
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Minor tangent: recommend instapot for family of 4 (two teens, two adults)?

Don't want the cheapest but not made of money either.

Here's the thing. I'm a huge fan of our instapot. That said, it's not great at anything, it's just good. Yes, it can do the job of a slow cooker, a pressure cooker, it can saute, it can make rice, it can even bake a cake.

Where it really shines is taking cheap cuts of meat and making them edible and tasty in a comparatively short time. Instead of cooking a roast for 8 hours in the crock pot, you can do it in an hour or less in the instapot. Most of the instapot recipes are really geared towards speed, so sure, you can cook a roast in 30 minutes, but to really get it tender you might want to add a few minutes or just let the pressure release on it's own instead of hitting the release. Plus there's an extra 10 minutes or so in every recipe that no one talks about - the time it takes to come to temp/pressure. But still...

Basically, anything you can cook on the stove or in a crock pot you can cook in the instapot, but faster.

We feed a family of 4 with ours, (two adults, two teenagers) and always have leftovers.
 
Perfect rice every time. I like to take frozen chicken wings (the kind in the 5 lb bag for like $6) and grab a handful, throw them on the trivet in the pot with 1 cup of water underneath and a couple drops of liquid smoke. 10 minutes on high pressure. Release the valve and throw them in some sauce then hit them in either the airfryer or under the broiler for about 2 minutes to crisp them up some. 15 or so minutes and a decent lunch with only one pot and some tin foil to clean up.
Shameless Appliance sales plug- SEVERAL pressure cookers and airfryers are on sale for the holidays at the big blue box. Also check out the Foodi by Ninja= multicooker and airfryer all in one device, just pressure cook your meat, swap out the lid and now crisps with the airfryer lid.
 
Perfect rice every time. I like to take frozen chicken wings (the kind in the 5 lb bag for like $6) and grab a handful, throw them on the trivet in the pot with 1 cup of water underneath and a couple drops of liquid smoke. 10 minutes on high pressure. Release the valve and throw them in some sauce then hit them in either the airfryer or under the broiler for about 2 minutes to crisp them up some. 15 or so minutes and a decent lunch with only one pot and some tin foil to clean up.
Shameless Appliance sales plug- SEVERAL pressure cookers and airfryers are on sale for the holidays at the big blue box. Also check out the Foodi by Ninja= multicooker and airfryer all in one device, just pressure cook your meat, swap out the lid and now crisps with the airfryer lid.

Yeah I saw those at Hellmart and was intrigued. Because we want an airfrier too.
 
Yeah I saw those at Hellmart and was intrigued. Because we want an airfrier too.

Come by the big blue box (with the yellow tag) and pick one up. We have our holiday return policy live so you got until Jan 12 to return it if it doesn’t work out for you. But I’m pretty sure you’ll keep it.
 
Come by the big blue box (with the yellow tag) and pick one up. We have our holiday return policy live so you got until Jan 12 to return it if it doesn’t work out for you. But I’m pretty sure you’ll keep it.

If I had any idea what store you're talking about I might
 
Every time we cook cubed steak (deer), it's done in the instant pot using the same recipe. We try to have it once a week, but sometimes we forget and a week slips past.

Instant pot on sauté with a little olive oil. Season and flour your steaks. Lightly fry them and set them to the side.

Add a splash of beef broth to the pot to break loose all the brown bits. Turn off the pot.

To the pot, mix two cups beef broth, one can of cream of celery, and one packet of onion soup mix.

Toss in the meat, press the meat button and pressure cook on high for 40 minutes. The actual recipe calls for 20 minutes, but I screwed up and did 40 and liked it more.
 
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