Instant Pot. Why does my wife need one of these. What does it do that is better than the other 50

[Anonymous]

I am a woman who prefers not to have an Instant Pot. I don't need a $100 pot to steam rice and vegetables, I already have a slow cooker, and I don't like food from a pressure cooker.

However, if your wife likes to collect gadgets and experiment with cooking, then let her be happy. What's it to you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can't explain it. Crock pot food is nasty. Fast crock pot food is even nastier. Resist!

It's a pressure cooker, dummy.

Same! Pressure cookers produce really disgusting food.

Only if you don't know how to cook or select decent recipes.

I went to culinary school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can't explain it. Crock pot food is nasty. Fast crock pot food is even nastier. Resist!

It's a pressure cooker, dummy.

Same! Pressure cookers produce really disgusting food.

It's not the appliance's fault if you are a terrible cook.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can't explain it. Crock pot food is nasty. Fast crock pot food is even nastier. Resist!

It's a pressure cooker, dummy.

Same! Pressure cookers produce really disgusting food.

It's not the appliance's fault if you are a terrible cook.

I am quite confident in my cooking skills as I went to culinary school. But crock pots and pressure cookers ruin most food. They are good in very specific instances, but almost no home cook who wants to make good tasting food needs one.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can't explain it. Crock pot food is nasty. Fast crock pot food is even nastier. Resist!

It's a pressure cooker, dummy.

Same! Pressure cookers produce really disgusting food.

It's not the appliance's fault if you are a terrible cook.

I am quite confident in my cooking skills as I went to culinary school. But crock pots and pressure cookers ruin most food. They are good in very specific instances, but almost no home cook who wants to make good tasting food needs one.

Sorry, but if it's good enough for Hugh Acheson, Melissa Clark, Kenzie Lopez Alt and millions of talented home cooks in India, it's good enough for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been kind of tempted to get one if it can replace the other gadgets I use -

crock pot
rice cooker
pressure cooker

Can I get an intstapot and then get rid of the rest?

Yes, that's exactly what I did. Of course, now sometimes I'd like to be using the crock pot and the rice cooker at the same time, but it's nice to have consolidated.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can't explain it. Crock pot food is nasty. Fast crock pot food is even nastier. Resist!

It's a pressure cooker, dummy.

Same! Pressure cookers produce really disgusting food.

It's not the appliance's fault if you are a terrible cook.

I am quite confident in my cooking skills as I went to culinary school. But crock pots and pressure cookers ruin most food. They are good in very specific instances, but almost no home cook who wants to make good tasting food needs one.

Sorry, but if it's good enough for Hugh Acheson, Melissa Clark, Kenzie Lopez Alt and millions of talented home cooks in India, it's good enough for you.

*Kenji

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can't explain it. Crock pot food is nasty. Fast crock pot food is even nastier. Resist!

It's a pressure cooker, dummy.

Same! Pressure cookers produce really disgusting food.

It's not the appliance's fault if you are a terrible cook.

I am quite confident in my cooking skills as I went to culinary school. But crock pots and pressure cookers ruin most food. They are good in very specific instances, but almost no home cook who wants to make good tasting food needs one.

Speak for yourself. It works great for me and many millions of my fellow Indians.

[Anonymous]

Its a dust collector...trust me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can't explain it. Crock pot food is nasty. Fast crock pot food is even nastier. Resist!

It's a pressure cooker, dummy.

Same! Pressure cookers produce really disgusting food.

It's not the appliance's fault if you are a terrible cook.

I am quite confident in my cooking skills as I went to culinary school. But crock pots and pressure cookers ruin most food. They are good in very specific instances, but almost no home cook who wants to make good tasting food needs one.

Crock pots, yes. True pressure cookers (not these BS electric ones) absolutly not. I make all of my curries, stocks, dried legumes in a PC and it delivers a far superior product than stovetop in a faction of the time. I can get a stock to gel after just 1.5hrs in the PC and it comes out much much more clear than a low simmer and makes for an easy stock to consomme.

You learned absolutly nothing of eastern cooking in culinary school.

[Anonymous]

It can make really rich chicken broth in about 2 hours. Enough said.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can't explain it. Crock pot food is nasty. Fast crock pot food is even nastier. Resist!

It's a pressure cooker, dummy.

Same! Pressure cookers produce really disgusting food.

It's not the appliance's fault if you are a terrible cook.

I am quite confident in my cooking skills as I went to culinary school. But crock pots and pressure cookers ruin most food. They are good in very specific instances, but almost no home cook who wants to make good tasting food needs one.

Crock pots, yes. True pressure cookers (not these BS electric ones) absolutly not. I make all of my curries, stocks, dried legumes in a PC and it delivers a far superior product than stovetop in a faction of the time. I can get a stock to gel after just 1.5hrs in the PC and it comes out much much more clear than a low simmer and makes for an easy stock to consomme.

You learned absolutly nothing of eastern cooking in culinary school.

I will give you that a pressure cooker is very good for stock. And the IP is excellent as a rice cooker. But OP's wife doesn't need an IP.

[Anonymous]

Just give in, buy it, face the fact that it will be used once and sold at a garage sale.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can't explain it. Crock pot food is nasty. Fast crock pot food is even nastier. Resist!

It's a pressure cooker, dummy.

Same! Pressure cookers produce really disgusting food.

It's not the appliance's fault if you are a terrible cook.

I am quite confident in my cooking skills as I went to culinary school. But crock pots and pressure cookers ruin most food. They are good in very specific instances, but almost no home cook who wants to make good tasting food needs one.

I agree with you. I make homemade sauces and soups and much prefer them to be simmered on the stove. I never cook Indian food and I think that would be an entirely different need and an entirely different thread. Did the OP specify Indian food?

[Anonymous]

Insta pot will not save you time. After cooking, add another 15-30 minutes for the pot to depressurize. Unless you have a large family that eats a lot of beans and rice, it's not worth it.