Instant Pot

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5 yrslongest happy owner

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I’m confused reading these posts about recent Instant Pots being considered low quality. I’ve been using mine every other day for over five years with zero issues whatsoever. Maybe it works too well as I haven’t checked up on the company since.

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YMMV, but the rice cooker is mostly collecting dust since I got and Instant Pot. Why? The IP is much faster than a rice cooker. Also, the inner vessel is more durable - it's stainless steel (as opposed to the non-stick coating in the rice cooker), so no worries about scratches, dishwasher, etc... .

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Not that this means your response is wrong (I largely agree) but funny enough in my household our insta-pot is essentially just a rice cooker. We basically use it for nothing else, but it’s also really good for rice! Fluffy and perfect everytime.

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Everyone who wants one already has one, and it's not the kind of thing you need to upgrade every year. I'll keep using my Instant Pot for the next 10 years, but that won't help Instant Brands make money.

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Instant Pot. Can be used as a rice cooker, slow cooker, pressure cooker (mostly known for this last use) Though probably not as good for rice specifically as an actual high-end rice cooker, it greatly increased the range of foods I eat. Makes it easy to make nice one pot meals overnight for multiple days, you can make really good broth soups from chickens etc quickly, or slowly if you prefer. If you like to try tougher cuts of meat, this is also a good reason to get it. The fact it doesn't occupy one burner is also helpful.

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>Also that 12 minutes is not inclusive of the 10 minutes it takes to get up to pressure This is a huge downside that people always neglect to mention with instant pots. Probably not a big deal with rice, since the other methods also take ~20 minutes total, but for larger meals, that extra time is a lot more than it takes for rice, and the slow release at the end is also somewhat necessary for other foods that don't completely cook during the short time that's recommended. Things like roast and such aren't 'done' just because everything is up to a reasonable temperature, that extra cooking that's done during the slow cooling of the release helps flavors develop.

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I never quite understood the hype of Instant pot. It just seemed like an Electric pressure cooker. Breville has had one since the mid 00s, and my mother had a simpler Sears branded one in the 90s. Was it bandwagon effect? It always seemed like one of those products you'd see on an infomercial. The overall build quality, particularly the front button membrane, looked extremely cheap to me, like what you'd see on random Wish.com crap.

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Instant Pots are awesome, broadly useful, and last a long time. They reached market saturation, though, and the company kept trying to find a way to keep up the growth curve it had when Instant Pot was being adopted. And then, of course, the Private Equity “extract money and load the firm up with debt” maneuver of death.