Store the Instant Pot with the lid upside down so the sealing ring is exposed to air, instead of with the lid closed onto the pot.Make sure to remove the sealing ring and fully clean it after cooking.Here are a few tips on caring for the sealing ring: The sealing ring can sometimes pick up odors from the cooking. Your Instant Pot or pressure cooker comes with a plastic sealing ring on the inside of the lid. Understanding the Instant Pot sealing ring We want to help you understand how long the pressure cooker recipe will actually take to make. Once you take into account these additional times, you can accurately estimate the time needed to cook using a pressure cooker! All our Instant Pot recipes have the preheat time (and Natural Release, if applicable) clearly marked. But some recipes call for a Natural Release, where you wait with the cover on for the pressure to naturally release from the pot. A Quick Release means that the steam in the pot is released immediately and you can remove the lid. Natural release time (depends on recipe): Some recipes call for a “cool down” process to release the pressure in the pot.It’s usually about 5 minutes, but can be up to 20 minutes (in our mashed potatoes for a crowd). This time can vary depending on the recipe and how much food is in the pressure cooker. “ Preheat” time: After you add the ingredients to the pot, the Instant Pot requires about time for “preheating” or coming up to pressure.However, keep in mind that there are two additional times to add to the cook time. Sweet potatoes cook for 16 minutes, and apple crisp cooks in 2 minutes, and broccoli in 0 minutes! The cook time for pressure cooker recipes can look deceptively short. “Hidden” cook time with a pressure cookerĪs Alex and I have come to understand our Instant Pot, we’ve learned a few things. We found that this pressure cooker performed similarly to our Instant Pot and the timing was interchangeable. The other pressure cooker we have experimented with is the Ambiano Digital Pressure Cooker that we used to make the steel cut oatmeal. So, only use the Instant Pot Mini for these recipes at your own risk! For example, we’ve heard that the Instant Pot Mini is pretty different and does not work as well as the standard size. We can’t speak to other brands and types of Instant Pots. The pressure cooker we used to test all of these healthy recipe is the Instant Pot 6 Qt Multi-Use Programmable Pressure Cooker. It might sound silly, but one of the reasons we love the Instant Pot is that it gets extra pans off our stovetop or oven so that we can concentrate on cooking the rest of the meal.Īlex and I use an Instant Pot brand (Instant Pot is the brand name Instapot is a slang variation). But some things it can shave the standard cook time in half: like cooking dried beans, spaghetti squash, or beets. The Instant Pot is not always faster! It depends on what you’re making. Recipes don’t require baby-sitting like they do on the stove or in the oven. The nice thing about pressure cooking is you can “set it and forget it” in many cases. While it’s not a perfect solution to making fast meals, here are the major advantages we see: Now, we make so many different recipes in the Instant Pot (as you can see above). We were on the fence for years until we gave it a try. If we add something new to our kitchen, we want to be confident it will be useful in the long term before committing precious cabinet space. We’re pretty wary of adding new gadgets to our kitchen. Why cook with a pressure cooker?Īlex and I will be the first to admit: cooking with an Instant Pot is not something we ever expected to do. It’s the exact opposite of a crock pot or slow cooker, which has very long cook times. But there are lots of brands of electric pressure cookers! The concept is to cook foods at high pressure, which cuts down on cooking time. (Really! We didn’t believe it until we tried it.)Īn Instant Pot is a digital pressure cooker (Instant Pot is the brand name Instapot is a slang variation). And even better: boiling eggs in an Instant Pot makes for easy peel hard boiled eggs. The entire process takes about 20 minutes and couldn’t be simpler. Last up in our healthy Instant Pot recipes: eggs! Did you know you could cook hard boiled eggs in a pressure cooker? This method is totally hands off: you don’t have to wait for water to boil or worry about overcooking the eggs.
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