Device can improve your quality of life – A Pressure Cooker

https://smallpondscience.com/2014/09/08/this-device-can-improve-your-quality-of-life/

by fock • 4 years ago

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linsomniac• 4 years ago

I totally agree here. We got an InstantPot when they first were fashionable, but fairly quickly switched to just a regular pressure cooker. I had before that been worried about the risk of explosion, but that's just because I didn't understand them.

I switched to a regular pressure cooker because the InstantPot is fairly slow to come up to temp, being limited to a 15A 120V outlet; my induction stove is amazingly fast. Making a big pot meal in the InstantPot could take 30 minutes to start coming up to pressure for a 10 minute cook. Not bad but the stove will do it much faster.

The article seems fairly vegetarian slant, and is right on about beans and rice, especially brown rice and wild rice are nice in the pressure cooker. I've also done on a number of occasions a "no drain" spaghetti and meat sauce that comes out fantastic in about 5 minutes. Pasta isn't a long meal anyway, but the sauce cooking with the pasta is convenient and makes it a little more hearty, with the starches staying in it instead of being drained off.

Meats are great as well, my wife has been making a barbacoa out of pork loin that is amazing. Shredded pork loin in around 45 minutes is shockingly quick. I used to regularly do a "chicken and rice" in 45 minutes that the chicken would just shred as you stirred it up before serving. Shredded chicken for tacos is also super easy, some people like to shred chicken in a mixer, but with the pressure cooker you can just stir it up and it shreds.

Device can improve your quality of life – A Pressure Cooker

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