Thinking of buying an electric pressure cooker/multicooker/Instant Pot

[ColinUK]

Its great when new gadgets work. Let's hear how it goes cooking your first meal please.

Will do.

And just read this… not had butter nut squash for ages but seems like it should be ok
Curried butternut squash soup

 

[AndBreathe]

Will do.

And just read this… not had butter nut squash for ages but seems like it should be ok
Curried butternut squash soup

So, the adventure begins!

I'm with @travellor in terms of using hot water in the IP.

Here are a couple of sites where many of the recipes utilise the IP. Feisty Tapas is UK based, so all her recipes and quantities are in the most familiar units and terminology. TwoSleevers is in the US, but as well as many, many delicious IP recipes, many are LC or keto, if that's how you are structuring your way of eating.

Instant Pot Recipes UK | Feisty Tapas

Instant Pot Recipes with UK ingredients and measurements. Easy and delicious recipes for your Instant Pot or electric pressure cooker

www.feistytapas.com

Recipe Index - TwoSleevers

twosleevers.com

Two Sleevers doesn't live with diabetes to my knowledge, but she and her husband have both undergone gastric sleeve surgery for weight reduction. Her flavours are absolutely exquisite, and if you fancy a simple, but very delicious Indian style dish I wholeheartedly recommend her Butter Chicken.

30 Minute Indian Butter Chicken Recipe | Instant Pot Butter Chicken

Make restaurant quality Instant Pot Butter Chicken in under 30 minutes! Tender chicken in a flavorful spiced sauce the whole family will love

twosleevers.com

On t'internet, as I'm sure you are already are aware, or imagine, there are many IP bloggers, and many LC IP bloggers.

Enjoy the BNS Soup. The other day I did a super-quick spiced carrot soup in 15 minutes, then a bit of an ignoring, until I was ready to eat it. I finished it by running the stick blender, in the pot (no nasty non-stick to be damaged by a blender).

Spicy Instant Pot Carrot Soup

This soup is the bomb diggity. You heard me: BOMB DIGGITY. This carrot soup is as bomb diggity as they come. It's also 5-ingredient easy, Instant

pinchofyum.com

Delish!

 

[domoniques]

Hi
Hope you like your instant pot , I have a couple of slow cookers but my baby is https://ninjakitchen.co.uk/product/ninja-foodi-9-in-1-multi-cooker-6l-op350uk-zidOP350UK I brought it on sale along with extras it does have pride of place otherwise it would stay in the cupboard .

 

[ColinUK]

It’s On and being used to make scrambled eggs
First time using it to cook anything so curious about how the eggs turn out cooked under pressure.
Planning on cooking chicken curry later.

 

[ColinUK]

 

[diatribe]

I have an a traditional pressure cooker (Fissler) and a small Instant Pot (about 60 quid). I have found both to be excellent, the former is large so if I am cooking for many people or doing large dishes I use that, that brand also have replaceable parts which is good after years of use. However, the Instant pot is my current go to for everyday cooking. The combination of a slow cooker and pressure cooker means you can make a whole range of things in it. In fact I just made a nice chic pea curry. Soups etc are a whizz in both as well. Both of these devices have been my go-to methods of cooking a lot of things for a while now and make life so much easier if you re entertaining.

If you want something easy to manage and less prone to issues, I would go for the Instant pot.

 

[Docb]

Reviving this thread cos today my new Tefal pressure cooker arrived! Reckon it might confine my stockpot and steamer stack to the back of the cupboard.

The fun starts tomorrow.

 

[AndBreathe]

I have an a traditional pressure cooker (Fissler) and a small Instant Pot (about 60 quid). I have found both to be excellent, the former is large so if I am cooking for many people or doing large dishes I use that, that brand also have replaceable parts which is good after years of use. However, the Instant pot is my current go to for everyday cooking. The combination of a slow cooker and pressure cooker means you can make a whole range of things in it. In fact I just made a nice chic pea curry. Soups etc are a whizz in both as well. Both of these devices have been my go-to methods of cooking a lot of things for a while now and make life so much easier if you re entertaining.

If you want something easy to manage and less prone to issues, I would go for the Instant pot.

Diatribe, I can't necessarily say for years and years, but Instant Pot spares are available, from replacement lids, to seals, to pressure valves, to inner pots.

 

[Annemarie]

@ColinUK if you have a microwave have you thought of a microwave pressure cooker. I bought one for our caravan and it’s great (chilli in 8 minutes with very little effort) it came with a great instruction book, also available on line. My preferred appliance is a soup maker, brilliant for all the fridge left overs and it even makes ice cream. I find appliances that have their own space on the top get used but those in a cupboard get lost

 

[ColinUK]

@ColinUK if you have a microwave have you thought of a microwave pressure cooker. I bought one for our caravan and it’s great (chilli in 8 minutes with very little effort) it came with a great instruction book, also available on line. My preferred appliance is a soup maker, brilliant for all the fridge left overs and it even makes ice cream. I find appliances that have their own space on the top get used but those in a cupboard get lost

Don’t have a microwave!

 

[Docb]

It is just 10:15 am and in the last hour my new pressure cooker has produced: a piece of boiled gammon which is now smothered in mustard and will go into the oven later to finish it; a batch of steamed veg, some of which will end up in the oven covered in cheese with the gammon; and a batch of celery and Stilton soup which will last me through the week.

I think I am going to like this piece of kit.

I was telling my grandson about it last night. He has just started as a chef in a local pub/restaurant, which used to have a Michelin star, and is reopening having been completely and expensively refurbished (bet you can work out where that is @mikeyB). His comment was, they are good.... we've got one the size of a small car!

 

[ColinUK]

It is just 10:15 am and in the last hour my new pressure cooker has produced: a piece of boiled gammon which is now smothered in mustard and will go into the oven later to finish it; a batch of steamed veg, some of which will end up in the oven covered in cheese with the gammon; and a batch of celery and Stilton soup which will last me through the week.

I think I am going to like this piece of kit.

I was telling my grandson about it last night. He has just started as a chef in a local pub/restaurant, which used to have a Michelin star, and is reopening having been completely and expensively refurbished (bet you can work out where that is @mikeyB). His comment was, they are good.... we've got one the size of a small car!

I’ve got everything prepped to make good old fashioned Yiddishe chicken soup later.

 

[Docb]

Beef casserole made this morning - it was a doddle. Portion for this evening, two portions in the freezer. Will cook the veg for tonight in the pressure cooker. 10 mins from start to eating.

Yes, definitely like it and by the end of the week I am sure some of the old kit (steamer and stock pot) will be confined to the back of a cupboard.

 

[Loobyloo]

Beef casserole made this morning - it was a doddle. Portion for this evening, two portions in the freezer. Will cook the veg for tonight in the pressure cooker. 10 mins from start to eating.

Yes, definitely like it and by the end of the week I am sure some of the old kit (steamer and stock pot) will be confined to the back of a cupboard.

My steamer went to charity after i had purchased mine along with the slow cooker which i hardly used. Wouldn't be without my Pressure King now. My best purchase for the kitchen by far and i def recommend. Hardly a day goes without me using it.