I love my instant pot. I don't do anything artisanal as I'm not fancy enough for that. Some chicken breast with some teriyaki sauce and water for 20 minutes comes out great.
Inside the Home of Instant Pot
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#102I use a Cuisinart pressure cooker like a chain smoker. I cook a vegetable stew that lasts 4 or 5 meals, then cook my next vegetable stew for the next 4 or 5 meals, and so on. No recipes. Basically what's fresh and in season from the farmers market with legumes (lentils, beans, peas, et), nutritional yeast, herbs or flavoring (usually ginger or jalepenos) and water. Then salt to taste, topped with nuts, and crispy veg…
I'd be glad to know how to make bread in a pressure cooker!
First the caveats: My pressure-cooked bread tastes delicious to me, but I experiment so my results vary. Most batches wouldn't make it into a bakery.
For one thing, I start with wheat berries that I turn into flour in my blender. I blend some to fine flour so it gets doughy, but some course, which gives more texture and, I hear, lowers the glycemic load or something like that.
For another, I add flavors. I started with garlic and onions, then moved to banana, carrot, apple, cocao powder, etc, and various combinations, usually based on what's in season at the farmers market. The one I made over the weekend had banana, cranberry, and ginger.
Here's the recipe I started with, though I use water instead of milk to keep it vegan.
- 2 cups (250g) all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate baking soda (not baking powder)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/4 cup (270g)whole milk plain yogurt (or sour milk, or milk with 1¼ tablespoons of vinegar)
- water in pressure cooker under the metal container the dough goes in
Instructions:
1. Oil metal container so bread doesn't stick
2. Mix everything
3. Pressure cook high presser 15-20 minutes with 1/2 cup water under the metal container
I've only done soda bread, working my way to yeast.
My metal container happens to be my rice cooker bowl. I don't use the rice cooker any more, but the bowl fits perfectly in the pressure cooker. To keep the metal bowl from touching the pressure cooker's teflon, I cut some potatoes and put them in the water, so I get a few pressure-cooked potatoes in the process.
These pages have pictures that helped, although my bread is much more grainy and brown:
- https://www.hippressurecooking.com/pressure-cooker-bread-les...
- http://www.instructables.com/id/Easy-Bread-Anywhere%3A-%22Ba...
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#103I love this thing. I feel like the whole family is eating healthier since we have it. My favorite food is Risotto, which comes out really great. Has anyone a very good resource for some other great recipes?
Wikileaks published a great Risotto recipe last year -- hopefully Mueller will published some email with Trump's secret taco bowl recipe soon.
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#104Great in theory, but I've just been reminded that I haven't liked anything that comes out of it. Things turn out kind of weird imho. For example, carrots we're too soft, spinach was completely crushed and an ugly green. The texture always put me off. Anyone else have a similar experience?
If you want varied textures, throw some frozen vegetables in after you finish cooking it. (Peas, carrots and corn are good options — anything with some snap that are small pieces.)
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#105If you get the bluetooth enabled version, you can have delicious steel cut oats ready for breakfast. You just set the time you want it finished and wallah! https://instantpot.com/portfolio-item/smart-bluetooth/
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#106This article glosses over the real story which is how did Instant Pot win when their product is functional similar to ones that have existed for a long time? (And no, it's isn't sensors, they all regulate heat and have a valve that prevents explosion.)
This is the same as when people write articles about AirBnB and act as if they invented the space when VRBO was there for years.
I have no problem with stories about an upstart toppling the existing players (in fact I love em) just tell me how it happened.
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#107If you actually read this article, there's barely any information in it that warrants that many words. It's basically just an advertisement that goes "lots of people have bought this thing!" with the automatic effect that readers will then go "wow sounds popular I should think about getting one".
When anything doubles in sales for 6 straight years I think this kind of article is warranted. When it is a top 5 item across stores on Black Friday. The story is how a small Canadian company has such religiously loyal customers and evangelist. I think it is a far article. I bought myself one in September. I love to cook and cook 70% of meals. Almost everything is from scratch and takes over an hour. I now use this I…
I think to OPs point, is not that articles in general aren't warranted. It's just that this one was useless. It doesn't tell me what instant pot did to make it beat out rivals other than some nonsense about sensors.
And sending units to reviewers is paid advertising. I'd like to hear more about that. Was that his plan from the beginning? Make the same device everyone else does at the same price but get blog reviews?
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
We've used a Japanese multi cooker for years. Tiger brand. Does rice, steaming, slow cooked stews and soups, even cakes and yoghurt. I'm very surprised at everyone talking as though the Instant Pot invented it.
The key difference is that the Instant Pot is a pressure cooker, which ordinary rice/multi-cookers are not, they just heat the pot to boil water until the temperature reaches a cutoff point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_cooker#/media/File:Electr...
Electric pressure cookers were invented in the US in the 1950s. The instant pot is pretty much identical to the one my grandmother had in the 1990s (I think presto).
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#109Does it deal with power failures, as in it remembers it's state and then properly adjusts for delayed start and stop considering the duration of power failure and adjusting process considering the cooking due to already generated heat when power was gone?
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#110If you get the bluetooth enabled version, you can have delicious steel cut oats ready for breakfast. You just set the time you want it finished and wallah! https://instantpot.com/portfolio-item/smart-bluetooth/
The non-bt version does this too