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How the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following

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Re: How the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following

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Post by x0x0 »

komali2 wrote: post #196
jjaredsimpson wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really find I like it best when I've done stews, pork shoulder, red sauces, and stocks. It pretty much works the same for all of them. I get all my aromatics roughly chopped, saute for a couple minutes just to brown them up, then I put them in the blender and transfer to the IP for an hour or so. I just submerge the meat and guess at a time that matches a stove top pressure cooker. So I get what you mean about the…

Pork shoulder and pulled pork are fantastic in a pressure cooker. I don't really use mine for anything else.

Better than in a slow cooker?

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Post by awwstn »

[perhaps related] The late, great Roger Ebert wrote a book about rice cookers: "The Pot and How to Use It: The Mystery and Romance of the Rice Cooker". Like pretty much everything Ebert ever wrote, it's excellent:

https://www.amazon.com/Pot-How-Use-Mystery-Romance/dp/074079...

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Post by et-al »

awwstn wrote: post #202

[perhaps related] The late, great Roger Ebert wrote a book about rice cookers: "The Pot and How to Use It: The Mystery and Romance of the Rice Cooker". Like pretty much everything Ebert ever wrote, it's excellent: https://www.amazon.com/Pot-How-Use-Mystery-Romance/dp/074079...

(And this is the original blog post that inspired the book: http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/the-pot-and-how-to-...)

Re: How the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following

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Post by logfromblammo »

criddell wrote: post #164
logfromblammo wrote: post #144

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Is [direct] payment a necessary component of advertising?

Generally, yes. Maybe I'm confused. Are you talking about the Instant Pot story, or the ads around the story? I'm seeing a Car Fax ad, an ad for a movie, a t-shirt company ad, some other google ads and some ads promoting other BBC properties.

I can't speak for grandparent poster, but when I read the article, it seemed like it was more advertisement than journalism. So it passes the duck test. It doesn't really matter to me if anyone actually paid BBC to run the story, because to me, it is at least 51% advertisement and no more than 49% news story.

Re: How the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following

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Post by wwweston »

>"Cooking is a social and emotional practice that creates a lot of meaning in our lives...So a product that takes centre stage in cooking practices also creates a sense of attachment by being an agent in our social and emotional lives."

Note that this is the opposite of Soylent, which treats cooking and eating as a distraction from the central problem of nutrition.

(I suppose you could alternatively say it's a complement to Soylent, which you could characterize as unhitching nutrition from cooking and eating rather than banning them from the process, letting people choose whether they want to pick up all the activities together or separately.)

Re: How the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following

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Post by fr0sty »

darkstar999 wrote: post #203

I already have a (great) rice cooker and a (not so great) slow cooker. Does the instant pot _actually_ replace those two appliances? Does it sous vide?

Does not do sous vide, but it certainly can replace your rice cooker and slow cooker. Only trouble is having only one appliance prevents you from cooking parallel (making curry _and_ the rice to serve it over, for instance, would be a problem).
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