Does anyone own an Instant Pot?

[Gefn]

Can you recommend it? Or is it just the latest fad?

[Frank Cannon]

I'm still old school and roll my own joints.

[Elderberry]

I don't drink instant any more. When I did, I just used a Sunbeam Hot Shot.

[Gefn]

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.

[Dexter]

https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Pot-Multi-Use-Programmable-Pressure/dp/B01B1VC13K/ref=sr_1_3?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1544493867&sr=1-3&keywords=instant%2Bpot&th=1

There are some decent prices on Amazon right now. The reviews are very high.

[Dexter]

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.

[Gefn]

@Dexter

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

Just wondering,
Love my crock pot,

Thanks you are so nice.

[DB]

I'm still old school and roll my own joints.

LOL.

[roamer_1]

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.

[DB]

What a crock!

[Gefn]

What a crock!

    

[Sanguine]

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.

[RoosGirl]

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.

[roamer_1]

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.

[Frank Cannon]

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.

[RoosGirl]

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.

[RoosGirl]

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.

[Sanguine]

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. 

[Frank Cannon]

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.

[Cyber Liberty]

Like I would take cooking advice from a damn yankee.

Just a few weeks to New Years.  Got your Black Eye Peas & cabbage?

[roamer_1]

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.

[Cyber Liberty]

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.

Can it do Sous Vide?

[RoosGirl]

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.

[RoosGirl]

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.

[Cyber Liberty]

Soggy fried chicken?  bleep off, damn yankee.

Remember the hot-air popcorn? 

[RoosGirl]

Remember the hot-air popcorn? 

Yeah, you're supposed to pour melted butter all over it, right?

[Cyber Liberty]

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

Brussels Sprouts?  It's almost cabbage, especially if you drown it in cheese sauce.

[Cyber Liberty]

Yeah, you're supposed to pour melted butter all over it, right?

Yeah.  If you put Margarine in the dribbler on the top of the popper, it ruins the machine.

[RoosGirl]

Brussels Sprouts?  It's almost cabbage, especially if you drown it in cheese sauce.

I have never cooked brussels sprouts, but he would just look at them as mini cabbages.  I tried a recipe for BBQ cabbage, but he wouldn't go for that one either. 

[Frank Cannon]

Remember the hot-air popcorn? 

It was like GD magic.......back before cable TV!!!

[Sanguine]

Yeah.  If you put Margarine in the dribbler on the top of the popper, it ruins the machine.

I love my hot air popcorn popper.  I put olive oil and salt on the popcorn.  Mmmmm.

[RoosGirl]

I love my hot air popcorn popper.  I put olive oil and salt on the popcorn.  Mmmmm.

We still have one too.  Hubby and kiddo love it, but they put butter on.  I'm not a big popcorn eater.

[Frank Cannon]

I love my hot air popcorn popper.  I put olive oil and salt on the popcorn.  Mmmmm.

Yeah. It's probably low cal sea salt too.....you effete snob.

[Cyber Liberty]

I have never cooked brussels sprouts, but he would just look at them as mini cabbages.  I tried a recipe for BBQ cabbage, but he wouldn't go for that one either.

You will have to resort to a tranq gun.

[RoosGirl]

Yeah. It's probably low cal sea salt too.....you effete snob.

Apparently can't trust the cooks in Texas either.

[Sanguine]

Yeah. It's probably low cal sea salt too.....you effete snob.

Oh, hell no.  I use full fat salt.

[roamer_1]

I love my hot air popcorn popper.  I put olive oil and salt on the popcorn.  Mmmmm.

YEP... Though butter and parmesan.... Used to have crappy powdered cheddar (like in Kraft Mac), but I lost my source.

[Frank Cannon]

Apparently can't trust the cooks in Texas either.

You got that right. It's all wetback street food down there. That's why they call it Tex Mex. Pretty soon they well be pushing Tex NORK..... damn Commie Pinkos.

[Frank Cannon]

YEP... Though butter and parmesan.... Used to have crappy powdered cheddar (like in Kraft Mac), but I lost my source.

https://www.amazon.com/Kernel-Seasons-Popcorn-Seasoning-Cheddar/dp/B000ILK9PM?th=1

The other flavors are good on buttered noodles too.

[RoosGirl]

https://www.amazon.com/Kernel-Seasons-Popcorn-Seasoning-Cheddar/dp/B000ILK9PM?th=1

The other flavors are good on buttered noodles too.

1. That's gross
2. I don't think they have Amazon in Idaho.

[Frank Cannon]

1. That's gross
2. I don't think they have Amazon in Idaho.

LOL. They don't but they do have Harvey Slotnik's Unclaimed Freight. You send them a letter via USPS of what you want with a money order for $58. He digs through stuff he gets at police and airport unclaimed baggage auctions to find your item and then he mails that and the change back within 4-6 months.

[roamer_1]

https://www.amazon.com/Kernel-Seasons-Popcorn-Seasoning-Cheddar/dp/B000ILK9PM?th=1

The other flavors are good on buttered noodles too.

Tried it... It ain't the same. I think it's the 'real cheese' messin with it.

[roamer_1]

LOL. They don't but they do have Harvey Slotnik's Unclaimed Freight. You send them a letter via USPS of what you want with a money order for $58. He digs through stuff he gets at police and airport unclaimed baggage auctions to find your item and then he mails that and the change back within 4-6 months.

Yeah, but I'd have to get it through @Idaho_Cowboy or @bigheadfred , and then they'd have to get it on a dog sled heading over here to Montana. It's complicated.

[DB]

Yeah, but I'd have to get it through @Idaho_Cowboy or @bigheadfred , and then they'd have to get it on a dog sled heading over here to Montana. It's complicated.

The hazmat team logistics is also complicated... Probably need permits to cross state lines...

[Frank Cannon]

Yeah, but I'd have to get it through @Idaho_Cowboy or @bigheadfred , and then they'd have to get it on a dog sled heading over here to Montana. It's complicated.

Complicated but doable. @RoosGirl make it like you don't have any luxuries at all. You have popcorn. That's first world eating right there.

[roamer_1]

The hazmat team logistics is also complicated... Probably need permits to cross state lines...

Well, you know how state agencies maintain constant communication... It's pretty easy to keep a look out for the smoke signals... 

[roamer_1]

Complicated but doable. @RoosGirl make it like you don't have any luxuries at all. You have popcorn. That's first world eating right there.

You mean you guys don't use feed corn?

[Frank Cannon]

You mean you guys don't use feed corn?

That's tough to get around my area because all the chickens, cows and live stock eat it up before we can get to it. We are all forced to go to a central location and purchase small containers of corn from some old fart in Valparaiso IN.

[roamer_1]

That's tough to get around my area because all the chickens, cows and live stock eat it up before we can get to it. We are all forced to go to a central location and purchase small containers of corn from some old fart in Valparaiso IN.

Wow. That's crazy. Sounds like you fellers need to eat more cows.

[bigheadfred]

@Frank Cannon

Of course we have Amazons in Idaho. Plenty of em waying up to two tons. Get em hot and talk about a pressure cooker. But theys pretty unapproachable. Not like theys can run away if they see you coming. Lots have those EBT thingys so they can afford corn. So they don't sociate with us low brows with jobs and stuff.