Cooking in an Instant pot definitely has many advantages than conventional cooking.
❖ Saves Time and Effort
Electric pressure cookers typically can reduce cooking time by up to 70 percent compared to slow cooking, oven cooking, steaming, and boiling. Less time cooking, more time to enjoy and spend with the family and other important things in life.
❖ Convenient
With its multifunctional pre-set programs, you just touch a button and let the Instant pot do the cooking for you. You can choose from its 12 buttons depending on your cooking needs – rice, multigrain rice, congee/porridge, sauté/browning, soup, poultry, meat & stew, bean & chili, steaming, slow cook, yogurt, and keep warm. If you can’t get to your Instant Pot on time at the end of a cooking cycle, don’t worry, the pot will automatically “keep warm” and the pressure will release naturally.
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❖ Energy Efficient
The heat source of an Instant Pot is electric and built in. You won’t need a separate electric or gas stove. Also, because it takes less time to cook your food, you will save up a lot of energy when cooking.
❖ Safe
If not used properly, pressure cooking can be disastrous. However, an Instant pot has various safety measures and components.
* If you forgot to lock the lid of your pot, it will not activate pressurized cooking – it will only stay in keep warm or sauté function, a feature that you can use when the lid of the pot is open.
* If your steam release valve is not closed or if the sealing ring of your pot is missing, the instant pot will detect that is has not reached pressure properly and will automatically switch to keep warm.
* The instant pot will also prevent you from opening the lid if it is still pressurized.
* The steam release valve has a vent shield to prevent food particles from accumulating, which ensures that the valve remains open to release pressure from the pot.
* If there is burnt food at the bottom of the inner pot because the moisture or the water in the pot is absent, the Instant Pot will automatically stop heating once the temperature exceeds a certain limit.
* The Instant Pot will also detect excessively high temperature and extremely high electrical current and will automatically disconnect the power.
* The pot keeps the cooking pressure between 10.12 -11.6 psi. If the pressure is above 15.23 psi, the steam release, similar to the pressure regulator of a stovetop pressure cooker, will be pushed up and allow steam to release to bring the pressure down.
* If the pressure becomes too high and the pot’s pressure regulator has malfunctioned, you will still be safe because the Instant pot’s mechanism will move the inner pot down, creating a gap between the inner pot and the lid where steam will be released and the heating stopped.
Recipes include:
– New York Cheesecake
– Coconut Rice Pudding
– Pulled Cranberry BBQ Pork
– Boneless BBQ Pork Ribs
– Chicken Pot BBQ
– Buttery Chicken
– Noodle Chicken Soup
– Sweet Potato-Carrot Soup
– Cherry Farro Chilled Salad
– Mushroom-y Risotto
– Cauliflower Mash
– Garlicky Broccoli
– Maple Carrots
– Mushrooms & Zucchini
– Garlicky Potato Mash
– Ratatouille
– Spinach Mash
And many more!