All right, readers — who’s a fan of the Instant Pot? Which are your favorite recipes; what are your best Instant Pot tips for busy ladies?
Unless you’ve been living under an Instant-Pot-sized rock, you’ve probably noticed the hype around this really versatile kitchen appliance. (NPR just referred to its “viral word-of-mouth success” in a headline the other day.) Many of you — like me — probably either got one or gave one for the holidays and have been spending the last month experimenting (or listening to someone else talk about their experimenting). A reader recently asked for a post similar to the slow cooker recipes post but this time specifically for Instant Pot recipes, and so we thought we’d gather some helpful links and recipes today. Do you have an Instant Pot? What do you use it for? As a busy woman, do you find that the Instant Pot is better or worse than the slow cooker (where, for example, readers have complained that it’s difficult to find slow cooker recipes with long cook times to allow for their work schedules)!
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Instant Pot is designed to replace a pressure cooker, slow cooker, rice cooker, steamer, yogurt maker, etc., and its fans use it to make everything from chili to cheesecake. The company offers several models with different sizes and features — the DUO60, DUO50, DUO80, LUX60, and the IP-Smart Bluetooth model — but we won’t take up space here describing the differences because Amazon already has a chart that does that. (Scroll down on the page to find it.) (Here’s a post from Hip Pressure Cooking to help you decide, too.) The Instant Pot is currently Amazon’s #1 bestseller in the Home & Kitchen category, and the price range is $80-$180, depending on which model you choose.
Here are a few resources for the new Instant Pot user:
Cookbooks:
The Instant Pot® Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook: Easy Recipes for Fast & Healthy Meals
Instant Pot Cookbook: Fast and Healthy Recipes for your Electric Pressure Cooker
Instant Pot Cookbook: A Comprehensive Instant Pot Pressure Cooker Cookbook with 110 Amazing Recipes for Healthy, Fast, and Delicious Meals
Vegan Under Pressure: Perfect Vegan Meals Made Quick and Easy in Your Pressure Cooker
Recipes:
Recipes from Instant Pot
50+ Recipes That You Can Make in Your Instant Pot [The Kitchn]
21 Best Instant Pot Recipes [The Prairie Homestead]
9 Healthy Recipes That Will Make You Want An Instant Pot [Shape]
Instant Pot Paleo Recipes [Preominantly Paleo]
Facebook Groups:
Instant Pot Community (300,000+ members!)
Instant Pot Cooks
Instant Pot Vegan Recipes
Whole30 Instant Pot Community
Weight Watchers with the Instant Pot
And also: Finding Hope in My Instant Pot Facebook Group [Paste]
Other Helpful Resources:
Official how-to videos [Instant Pot]
I Tried the Instant Pot. Here’s What I Think About It, 8 Months Later [The Kitchn]
So You Got an Instant Pot — Now What? [The Sweethome]
How To Use The Instant Pot [Elana’s Pantry]
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Instant Pot Obsession [Epicurious]
Making Yogurt in an Instant Pot: Is It Worth It? [Team Yogurt]
If you have an Instant Pot, what’s your favorite thing to make in it? Do you think it lives up to the hype? What model do you have? How much time do you save by using it? What have been your successful and unsuccessful experiments so far? What are your favorite recipes or cookbooks? What are your best Instant Pot tips for busy ladies?
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