Got some country-style boneless ribs that I was going to try out tonight. I think I’ll make a honey bbq sauce that I used for a different chicken recipe, and serve w/ some rice. Looks like I need to cook them on high pressure around 15 min with NPR…sound about right? Wonder if I should brown them first.
It was a pretty easy chicken /wild rice/Brown rice recipe. The frozen broccoli I put in (per the instructions ) disappeared into mush. It was pretty tasty, though. Ill have to find the recipe on line and link it. I also bought the ingredients to make a beef pot roast thing, but the meat was huge and wouldnt have fit in the instapot. So, I pulled out the old, oval slow cooker thing and its cooking away.
You can cut your roast in pieces and then plunk them in the IP.
I did find an instapot recipe but had all the ingredients for this thing, which filled the very large slow cooker!! Question-- i got my s and DIL the Lux, not the duo (
). Aside from yogurt which I know they cant make, are many of the recipes here using low pressure or are most high pressure?
@jym626 It’s good to see you are using your IP right away! Almost all the recipes call for high pressure. The low pressure is good for eggs, fish, seafood. But even for those, you can still use high pressure if you only have Lux. I think one exception is yogurt which needs low pressure. (I have DUO but never made yogurt).
Yogurt isn’t a pressure function. The Duo can make yogurt because it holds an appropriate temperature.
If you are using the Instant Pot for pressure cooking, do not fill the pot all the way! Follow the directions. You need a good section of air to build up steam, and you don’t want the food to get so high it clogs up your valve.
I have a lux and if I hadn’t read about the duo after already buying the lux, I wouldn’t know I was missing anything. I have a 6 qt and it holds a lot. Now that the kids are gone, I think it’s plenty big.
I used my old. Reliable slow cooker today @“Cardinal Fang” .
Threw my Costco left over rotisserie chicken carcass into the IP today along with some water/broth to make a rich broth for some chicken noodle soup later this week. 30 mins HP w/NR. Nice and quick!
I just made a pile of applesauce with the end of the 1/2 bushel of apples left from the market. Easy peeling with the attachment to my mixer, quartered and cored, dumped into the Instapot with 1/2 cup cider, a little vanilla and a little cinnamon. HP for 4 minutes, NR for a few minutes then released it. Lots of great applesauce easy, that still seemed to disappear.
I sent my IP back. H pulled out our Cruisinart Pressure Cooker and low and behold–it also browns.
I gave up on it a few years ago as H does not eat beans and I do not eat much meat. But you have all gotten us interested again so we shall see.
I love our rice cooker and will never part with one.
As for yogurt–it can be made in my pressure cooker. But years ago I made it on the stove–and then put it a warmed then turned off oven over night. Did this for years. But the 1970’s! Am going to try this again.
Bouncing this thread back up for those who got one for the holidays. My daughter got me two cookbooks:
The Instant Pot Electric Pressure Cookbook - Easy Recipes for Fast and Healthy Meals (Laurel Randolph)
Skinnytaste - Fast and Slow - Knockout Quick-Fix and Slow Cooker Recipes (Gina Homolka)
Anyone have either of these cookbooks? If so, any thoughts about them you’d care to share?
I guess I need to take this thing out of the box if I’m going to use it, though! Oh, she got me the glass lid to go with it, too.
Oh, Teri - you will laugh at this. When Mr. B first saw my Instapot, he said something like, “Oh, cool - a pressure reactor. Maybe I can run some reactions in phosphoric acid in it!” LOL. Sorry can’t offer any guidance on the books.
I had to boil a lot of root veggies for a special dish for the NYE. Instapot made this so easy! Load the potatoes in, press Beans button set at 5 min, cook, let the pressure release. Take the potatoes out, load carrots in, press the Beans button set at 3 min, repeat. Then cook some beets etc. So easy! No boiling pots on the stove.
Interesting that it was the beans button - for roasting vegetables! Reason???
I haven’t used any cookbooks either. Just things I have found online or through searches on the Instapot FB community board.
Steaming, abasket. I am just too lazy to manually set up the parameters, and the Beans heat and high pressure set works well for that. 
Ahh, got it.
As did Mr. teriwtt!
I bought one of these for my MIL for Christmas, and I’ve been sending her some recipes. BIL reported that she still hasn’t taken it out of the box. I’m so bummed! I think I’ll ask for an IP for my birthday-I might just get the same one back (and that would be fine, lol).
I think the looks of it can be a little intimidating! Maybe someone can help her set it up and try a first recipe with her.