General Your best instant pot recipes

[Papi Chingon]

I have cooked with traditional pressure cookers in the past, but have no experience with the instant pot syle cookers. I got my mother a pressure cooker last year for christmas, but she was too intimidated to use it, which bummed me out. She has friends with instant pots, and she liked them in theory, so this year I bought her one. Since they were on special on cyber minday, I thought fuck it, I'll get myself one as well. I know a few of you have one, so I'm wondering if you have any go-to recipes for me to try out. @Passive Jay @Wild

 

[1372]

I have cooked with traditional pressure cookers in the past, but have no experience with the instant pot syle cookers. I got my mother a pressure cooker last year for christmas, but she was too intimidated to use it, which bummed me out. She has friends with instant pots, and she liked them in theory, so this year I bought her one. Since they were on special on cyber minday, I thought fuck it, I'll get myself one as well. I know a few of you have one, so I'm wondering if you have any go-to recipes for me to try out. @Passive Jay @Wild

I'll ask the missus as she makes them all the time. I meant to ask last time for Jay.... I'll try to add later

 

[Papi Chingon]

I bought 2 of these, if it matters.

View: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0777XQ4S8

 

[1372]

This is our one

 

[Papi Chingon]

This is our one

I still don't really have a concept of these, just know people seem to rave about them as being easy to operate, awesome tasting food, and minimal prep work for dishes that would typically take a long time to prepare (let alone cook).

 

[Rambo John J]

I don't even know what those are
are they a pressure cooker or a crock pot or both?

 

[SuperPig]

I don't even know what those are
are they a pressure cooker or a crock pot or both?

Both.

You can slow cook in them but they’re basically a digital pressure cooker. So you can speed up basic cooking. Plenty of uses especially if you like stews and such...

 

[Rambo John J]

Both.

You can slow cook in them but they’re basically a digital pressure cooker. So you can speed up basic cooking. Plenty of uses especially if you like stews and such...

I have never even used a pressure cooker...I/we can with boiling water and I use crock pot for stew and some other great stuff

can't wait to hear some recipes...might get one of these things

 

[MMAPlaywright]

We got one just last week. So far, I have only made stew, oatmeal, beans, potatoes, hard boiled eggs. Everything has been easy as hell and all has turned out perfect.

 

[Papi Chingon]

I don't even know what those are
are they a pressure cooker or a crock pot or both?

They can pressure cook but not to the ability of a true pressure cooker. They also can be used in many more cooking applications than a pressure cooker can since they can slow cook, be set for specific times to start and end cooking (like put the food in them before leaving for work, program cooking to start at a specific time, then get home and the food is done), and they also have quite a few preprogrammed settings for specific types of food, so there is no guessing game on temperature needed, nor time of cooking.

 

[Wild]

I have cooked with traditional pressure cookers in the past, but have no experience with the instant pot syle cookers. I got my mother a pressure cooker last year for christmas, but she was too intimidated to use it, which bummed me out. She has friends with instant pots, and she liked them in theory, so this year I bought her one. Since they were on special on cyber minday, I thought fuck it, I'll get myself one as well. I know a few of you have one, so I'm wondering if you have any go-to recipes for me to try out. @Passive Jay @Wild

I’d start out with a beef roast, potatoes, and carrots. That’s a pretty simple combo to get your feet wet. May want to search YouTube as well. Probably some good videos on there.

 

[Papi Chingon]

I have never even used a pressure cooker...I/we can with boiling water and I use crock pot for stew and some other great stuff

can't wait to hear some recipes...might get one of these things

Pressure cookers, true pressure cooker, are unbelievable. The instant pots have some of that quality, but don't have the capability of a true pressure cooker. Having said that, they seem to do a bit of everything, so they in theory simplify the cooking process.

 

[Papi Chingon]

I’d start out with a beef roast, potatoes, and carrots. That’s a pretty simple combo to get your feet wet. May want to search YouTube as well. Probably some good videos on there.

That is a very detailed and informative recipe. I'll try to follow it, but it is so detailed that I'm sur I will miss something.

 

[SuperPig]

I've heard that they make pretty good rice cookers but @Banchan would be a better judge of the quality than I

 

[Papi Chingon]

I've heard that they make pretty good rice cookers but @Banchan would be a better judge of the quality than I

Yeah they can do that too. They can also cook beans without having to presoak. I'd imagine when it comes to rice that it wouldn't perform as well as a true rice cooker, but who knows.

 

[Wild]

That is a very detailed and informative recipe. I'll try to follow it, but it is so detailed that I'm sur I will miss something.

Here’s a decent vid that may help.


View: https://youtu.be/EwYSkXYq-oI

 

[SuperPig]

Yeah they can do that too. They can also cook beans without having to presoak. I'd imagine when it comes to rice that it wouldn't perform as well as a true rice cooker, but who knows.

It's a swiss army knife for the kitchen. It's not really as good as any of the things it's meant to replace but it does a pretty good job at a lot of things.

 

[MMAPlaywright]

I’m just messing around with simple stuff, getting used to it. I’ll step up to something more involved soon. I’ve been Googling recipes so far, all have been good.

 

[Wild]

@I Punch Hoes - searching YouTube was a real motherfucker. Took like 20 seconds so make sure you have a ton of time set aside to do some research....fuckface.

 

[MMAPlaywright]

It's a swiss army knife for the kitchen. It's not really as good as any of the things it's meant to replace but it does a pretty good job at a lot of things.

That’s kind of how I see it overall. Plus I’m easy af to satisfy. I don’t need gourmet food.

 

[Wild]

That’s kind of how I see it overall. Plus I’m easy af to satisfy. I don’t need gourmet food.

Me either. I’m a country cooking type guy.

 

[Papi Chingon]

Here’s a decent vid that may help.


View: https://youtu.be/EwYSkXYq-oI

I think that is the guy who narrated the honey badger video.


Recipe looks good though.

 

[Papi Chingon]

@I Punch Hoes - searching YouTube was a real motherfucker. Took like 20 seconds so make sure you have a ton of time set aside to do some research....fuckface.

That was uncalled for. I resent your condescending tone. You have been reported.

 

[Onetrickpony]

There’s a bunch of stuff I made in the cooking thread when I first got mine. Ribs are fucking incredible, so tender the bone wants to fall out taking them out of the pot.

Lifestyle - Whatcha cooking?

I think I gave directions on most of them but basically you throw your sit in there and turn it on.

Made this chilli, 45 min on meat/stew.

I highly recommend those canned chipotle peppers in adobo sauce. And that dill was in the first picture by mistake, had some cumin in the same type of container and grabbed the dill first. Thank Christ I noticed. Dill chilli would not be a good thing.

 

[1372]

Ok... Got the book out from my pot.

Here's a few ideas.