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Does anyone own an Instant Pot?
« on: December 11, 2018, 01:40:59 am »
Can you recommend it? Or is it just the latest fad?
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Re: Does anyone own an Instant Pot?
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2018, 01:44:16 am »
I'm still old school and roll my own joints.

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Re: Does anyone own an Instant Pot?
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2018, 01:51:44 am »
I don't drink instant any more. When I did, I just used a Sunbeam Hot Shot.

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Re: Does anyone own an Instant Pot?
« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2018, 01:57:37 am »
I don't drink instant any more. When I did, I just used a Sunbeam Hot Shot.

These aren’t coffee pots, they are crock pots on steroids.  Very popular now.
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Re: Does anyone own an Instant Pot?
« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2018, 02:11:49 am »
https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Pot-Multi-Use-Programmable-Pressure/product-reviews/B00FLYWNYQ/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_hist_1?ie=UTF8&filterByStar=one_star&reviewerType=all_reviews#reviews-filter-bar

A lot of the bad reviews are saying they loved the product until it died on them. I guess it's not the most reliable thing in the world.
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Re: Does anyone own an Instant Pot?
« Reply #6 on: December 11, 2018, 02:13:10 am »
@Dexter

I saw the same thing and I have friends who swear by them.

Just wondering,
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Re: Does anyone own an Instant Pot?
« Reply #7 on: December 11, 2018, 02:15:33 am »
I'm still old school and roll my own joints.

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Re: Does anyone own an Instant Pot?
« Reply #8 on: December 11, 2018, 02:50:14 am »
These aren’t coffee pots, they are crock pots on steroids.  Very popular now.

It's a pressure cooker. A baby one, but that's what it is. And pressure cookers are present in every rural house in the country, primarily for canning, but also because it makes great food happen in half the time.

Thanks, but I will stick to the tried and true, which mine are well older than me, and still going strong... without all the electronic fru-fru that'll limit it's life.

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Re: Does anyone own an Instant Pot?
« Reply #9 on: December 11, 2018, 03:02:01 am »
What a crock!

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Re: Does anyone own an Instant Pot?
« Reply #10 on: December 11, 2018, 03:53:05 am »
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Re: Does anyone own an Instant Pot?
« Reply #11 on: December 11, 2018, 03:54:49 am »
I've been looking at them, @Freya.  I've got a stainless steel pressure cooker that is easy to use and clean and cooks very well, but I have to monitor it pretty closely.  I think the instant pot might be less monitoring needed.

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Re: Does anyone own an Instant Pot?
« Reply #12 on: December 11, 2018, 03:56:12 am »
It's a pressure cooker. A baby one, but that's what it is. And pressure cookers are present in every rural house in the country, primarily for canning, but also because it makes great food happen in half the time.

Thanks, but I will stick to the tried and true, which mine are well older than me, and still going strong... without all the electronic fru-fru that'll limit it's life.

I have a huge pressure cooker for canning.  I've cooked in it before, but it's really too big to be useful for the size of stuff I generally cook; a corned beef for example.  So I looked at something like an Instapot that is smaller, but they're too small to cook a corned beef.

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« Reply #13 on: December 11, 2018, 04:11:58 am »
I have a huge pressure cooker for canning.  I've cooked in it before, but it's really too big to be useful for the size of stuff I generally cook; a corned beef for example.  So I looked at something like an Instapot that is smaller, but they're too small to cook a corned beef.

I want a little baby pressure cooker... Maybe 2 1/2 gallons... I think it would be great for being able to can up tail-ends... Like chili or spaghetti sauce - I make a big ol pot, and I'd like to pour about half of it off into quarts right away and just make getting it on the shelf part of the process... It would take a lot of weight off my freezer.

I don't trust any such thing with electronics on it. So I am laying in the weeds for the smallest old school one I can find.

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Re: Does anyone own an Instant Pot?
« Reply #14 on: December 11, 2018, 04:12:53 am »
I have a huge pressure cooker for canning.  I've cooked in it before, but it's really too big to be useful for the size of stuff I generally cook; a corned beef for example.  So I looked at something like an Instapot that is smaller, but they're too small to cook a corned beef.

If you are eating corned beef you got bigger problems then how to cook that rotten shit.

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« Reply #15 on: December 11, 2018, 04:13:54 am »
I want a little baby pressure cooker... Maybe 2 1/2 gallons... I think it would be great for being able to can up tail-ends... Like chili or spaghetti sauce - I make a big ol pot, and I'd like to pour about half of it off into quarts right away and just make getting it on the shelf part of the process... It would take a lot of weight off my freezer.

I don't trust any such thing with electronics on it. So I am laying in the weeds for the smallest old school one I can find.


Yeah, 10 quart would be a good size.  I think they're impossible to find in stainless though.  The big one I have is aluminum, so I don't really like to cook in it.  Have only done one corned beef.

ETA:  I shouldn't say impossible to find, just expensive.
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Re: Does anyone own an Instant Pot?
« Reply #16 on: December 11, 2018, 04:15:59 am »
If you are eating corned beef you got bigger problems then how to cook that rotten shit.

Like I would take cooking advice from a damn yankee.

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Re: Does anyone own an Instant Pot?
« Reply #17 on: December 11, 2018, 04:18:24 am »


Yeah, 10 quart would be a good size.  I think they're impossible to find in stainless though.  The big one I have is aluminum, so I don't really like to cook in it.  Have only done one corned beef.

Yeah, I won't have an aluminum one. 

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« Reply #18 on: December 11, 2018, 04:20:51 am »
Like I would take cooking advice from a damn yankee.

Yeah, well let me blow your mind and say that this thread is like so last year. Instant Pot is antiquated garbage. The Ninja Foodi is the must have cooker to have. It does all the pressure shit but also air fries so that you are not pulling some soggy chicken out.


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Re: Does anyone own an Instant Pot?
« Reply #19 on: December 11, 2018, 04:22:14 am »
Like I would take cooking advice from a damn yankee.

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Re: Does anyone own an Instant Pot?
« Reply #20 on: December 11, 2018, 04:22:56 am »


Yeah, 10 quart would be a good size.  I think they're impossible to find in stainless though.  The big one I have is aluminum, so I don't really like to cook in it.  Have only done one corned beef.

ETA:  I shouldn't say impossible to find, just expensive.

Yeah, I won't buy new. My big one is aluminum too, and I will be getting stainless on the small one - I want to be able to cook with it, which would make my big one strictly for fall harvest.

Sooner or later one will come through Sally Ann's, or a garage sale... just like about anything else. And it will be busted, and I will get it for a song.


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Re: Does anyone own an Instant Pot?
« Reply #21 on: December 11, 2018, 04:24:40 am »
Yeah, well let me blow your mind and say that this thread is like so last year. Instant Pot is antiquated garbage. The Ninja Foodi is the must have cooker to have. It does all the pressure shit but also air fries so that you are not pulling some soggy chicken out.



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« Reply #22 on: December 11, 2018, 04:26:27 am »
Yeah, well let me blow your mind and say that this thread is like so last year. Instant Pot is antiquated garbage. The Ninja Foodi is the must have cooker to have. It does all the pressure shit but also air fries so that you are not pulling some soggy chicken out.



Soggy fried chicken?  bleep off, damn yankee.

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« Reply #23 on: December 11, 2018, 04:27:29 am »
Just a few weeks to New Years.  Got your Black Eye Peas & cabbage?

My husband hates cabbage so we rarely have it, even on New Years, but we always have black eyed peas.

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« Reply #24 on: December 11, 2018, 04:27:57 am »
Soggy fried chicken?  bleep off, damn yankee.

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