Instant Pot cookers?

[Rick N Bama]

Got a question about doing hard boiled eggs in these pots. How long does it usually take for hard yokes and how easy are they to peel?

Our pot has an Egg setting which is for either 7 or 10 minutes, can't remember which at the moment, but I think it's 7. Then when it finishes we let it release the pressure on its own for another 7 minutes. The eggs go straight into an ice water bath for a couple minutes and then the peels slip right off. My wife just said that at Thanksgiving she did 18 at one time. All 18 turned out great.

[Mtnfolk75]

I did the 6 Chicken & 4 duck eggs on Manual for 5 minutes, it took roughly 5 minutes to come to pressure them cooked for 5. I manually released the pressure when it stopped at 5 minutes. transferred via a slotted spoon to an ice batch for 3 minutes before peeling the 1st one. Easy peel with a perfect Hardboil with no imperfections. Things I have read indicate a 3 minute manual cook for soft boiled.

[1911sw45]

Cool! I hate it when you go peel an egg and you lose some of the white. How old are your eggs that your using in your pot?

[country gent]

We bought one today. hoping to try it out here soon. I bought a pork roast today also. I'm thinking the pork roast some water salt pepper a apple or 2 potatos carrots and onion to start with. My Daughters all excited about it as her boys love yogurt. She is the one doing most of the cooking here now. Next week is a chicken I think. Maybe chilli or bean soup. I see that bone stock can be made with it also. SO a couple ham hocks cooked down with bone would make a good start for the bean soup.

[Mtnfolk75]

Cool! I hate it when you go peel an egg and you lose some of the white. How old are your eggs that your using in your pot?

A week or less, my 87 year old Father has Chickens and Ducks. He gets 15-18 eggs a day, usually 2 are Duck, we get fresh eggs several times a week.

[725]

I know I'm about to get the "look" from the wife. She hates it when I buy things, but this sounds too good. Maybe I'll just make a dinner and surprise her. Kind of sounds like even I can use this thing.

[phonejack]

For those of you who have one. Did you dispose of your pressure cooker and crockpot ? My wife is interested.

[Mtnfolk75]

Didn't own a Pressure Cooker before but the Crock Pots have been put in storage for now.

[GhostHawk]

Instantpot lives on the counter. Slow cooker is now living above the pantry covered with a towel.

Pressure cooker we have other than the IP is an old fashioned stove model and is on the porch with the rest of the canning gear.

Last night wife brought home a tray of chicken thighs.

Teach me how you do that chicken thing!

ok, put in 4 thighs, cup and a half of chicken broth, splash of teriyaki and soy sauce, showed her how to do the rice, slipped it all together, set it. Walked back into the living room, watched a tv show.

Half a hour later,"You want to eat?" Its done? "Yeah its done" Dang that is easy.

Almost did the beef pot roast in it today, but its -20 below or colder, good day to run the oven.

Vegitable beef soup tommorow.

[Rick N Bama]

For those of you who have one. Did you dispose of your pressure cooker and crockpot ? My wife is interested.

They haven't been disposed of, but since the Instant Pot has a slow cooker setting it's not been used any at all.

[Randy C]

we love our instant pot

[fiberoptik]

My only beed is the XL has teflon in pan. Don’t like teflon.


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[Lloyd Smale]

i still use my pressure cooker for canning beause its bigger. but rarely use the crock pot anymore because with a push of a button it is a crock pot too.

[Fishman]

We eat a lot of rice and have a dedicated rice cooker. I guess I should say “had”. It is in storage because the instant pot does that better too. And faster. In fact, that is what we use it for most of the time.

[Mtnfolk75]

Made a Modified recipe Hoppin' John in our's for New Year's dinner, like everything else we have done in it, it came out excellent. Also, we have the Instant Pot Brand in a 6 Quart & the Cooking Pot is Stainless Steel, NO Teflon.

[rondog]

Thinking I might get one of these if I can catch a good sale. I figured my wife would roll her eyes but she said she has friends that rave about them.

That's how it works - if it's MY idea, it's bad. But if one of her friends does it first, it's OK.

[GhostHawk]

Another winner tonight!

Instant pot hits it into the bleachers again.

Started with 4 chicken thigh's, added 1 cup of chicken broth.
A sprinkle of poultry seaoning, one block of curry.

On top of the chicken I placed the trivet, and a ceramic bowl with 1 cup of rice, 1.5 cups water.

https://www.amazon.com/Vermont-Curry...ont+mild+curry

Set for delay start 1 hour, 8 min pressure cook, natural release. Was timed so that the 10 min natural release was done as my wife walked in the door.

Removed rice, chicken, thickened the sauce with a little flour.
Heaven, simply heaven.

That curry I saw listed on a couple of different sites so I got curious and bought a box from Amazon. It sits in the fridge in a closed plastic box.

There are 8 "blocks" in the box, I only added one. I went with mild as my wife is pretty sensitive to the hot stuff.

Flavor is great, has a nice mellow rich curry flavor without being overpowering.

Some brussel sprouts finished the meal off. Leftovers will be gone by tomorrow.

This is the second time I have tried the curry, first time was pork chops. Both were winners.

We have the 3 quart IP, one of the earlier accessory's I bought was a ceramic non stick liner.
I really like this, just a quick spray of pam or a dab of oil and it washes clean quick and easy.
I would highly recomend that if you use your IP more than once a week you might want to get one.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

And the Adventure continues! Tommorow I think it is beef soup day.

[2011redrider]

Wife just bought a 6 qt Duo, all her co-workers had them. she had to search to find one locally, seemed to be all sold out due to Christmas. Did some Eggs, Mac n Cheese and Chicken breasts yesterday. All came out great. today is applesauce and Pot roast with a tri tip (since that is what we are stocked up on and chuck roasts are about 4-5 bucks a Lb) is on the schedule for her next days off. Never had eggs peel so easy, nedd to make a new batch of pickled eggs.

[GhostHawk]

Turkey thighs with Curry gravy for Sat night supper, with quartered potatoes in steamer basket above. Leftovers went into turkey chow mein noodle hotdish sunday.

Awesomesauce!

[smokeywolf]

We eat a lot of rice and have a dedicated rice cooker. I guess I should say “had”. It is in storage because the instant pot does that better too. And faster. In fact, that is what we use it for most of the time.

Best rice I've had comes out of a high end Zojirushi rice cooker with induction heating. We also eat a lot of rice.