Anybody Have Experience With A Multi-function Pressure Cooker?

[wacojoe]

I ordered one of these things after reading about what you can do with them and wanting a good pressure cooker for beans and chili anyway.

Looks like these are the latest thing in cooking devices and there are numerous websites and YouTube videos on recipes.

https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Pot-M...SIN=B01NBKTPTS

[Dave Grubb]

You will have to give us a report.

I haven't pulled that plug as yet--primarily based on the amount of counter space they take up and I am running out of "garage" space for all my gadgets

[Wannabe]

If you lose your electrical service can you use it on a coleman stove, kerosene stove, or on a good bed of coals? Otherwise, it sounds nifty when you have elect. power which is almost always.
Bob

[FredK]

No bad. Only use it every once in a while now. Does take up room. Less heat in kitchen.
IMHO a great way to cook different things. One neg is if you want it done in a hour expect to spend more waiting for it to build up pressure, cook and release the pressure. Have made spareribs, lasagna, and cooked vegs with the usual learning curve of not enough or too much liquid. Only a few times did I mess it up so bad that some wasn't edible. LOL

Using the Air Fryer, slow cooker or micro much more this time of year though. No need to add heat in Phoenix when you don't have too.

[TxMusky]

Got my wife one a couple years ago for Christmas. She loves it and it does take the cake for cooking many things. I found a great side effect that is not found in any of their commercials and I use it save some money. There are many specialty Mexican places in west texas that make excellent tamales. One Thanksgiving we had a tamale fest, I came home with 11 dozen of them already cooked and we had to freeze them and reheat. I can now buy the frozen ones from the restaurant at a cheaper price and keep them in the ice chest for the 2 hour ride home. When we are ready I just pop them in the pressure cooker and cook and steam them at the same time. I think I have loaded 4 dozen or so at a time, possibly more and presto, hot fresh tamales.

Hers in a 10 quart. We have a large family, so it is good for stews and stuff as well.

[wacojoe]

An aside: before buying the thing, I was directed by comments to check YouTube for recipes and tips. I naturally started with chili recipe videos as I am a chilihead and plan to start with that. It was a revelation. The god-awful concoctions the preveyors were trying to pass off for chili made me alternately want to gag and look for a rope! Mushrooms in chili??? I even saw one guy from Arkansas who claimed to have won numerous chili cook-off competitions who put sliced up little Smokie sausages in his. Kidney beans thrown in were everywhere for God's sake, and beer...please, please, please never put beer in chili. Most of 'em turned out to be some species of browned ground meat tomato stew. They used chili powder like they were afraid it contained nitroglycerin.

This is the national dish of Texas they are desecrating. There ought to be a law.

I found one guy making a batch who was obviously from Texas and claimed to be a restaurant chef showing the proper knife skills, who was on track until he tossed in kidney beans to ruin it. At least he did not start with ground beef like 90% did, starting with a hand chunked chuck roast. He also chopped up a dozen Serrano peppers after dumping in about two tablespoons of Cayenne pepper. Zowie! I think I am going to have to learn how to make a video after I get a few pots under me with the pressure cooking feature.