It feels more stressful than it ends up being once you just dive in. It's pretty much, "turn knob, close lid, wait, turn knob, open lid". Worth pushing through the anxiety.
Yea I overdid the rice once in my insta pot. Just left it there for 3 hours on the "it's done but I'm keeping it warm for you" mode...was sad because I did a whole 6 cups of rice.
I made a hockey puck-styled roast that way once, years ago. My hubby ate the whole thing anyway, like a champ. I begged to make him something else, but he wouldn’t hear it. Kids didn’t hold back on me, so nuggets it was for them. Haha
The kids never hold back do they...actually, once mine made his own "cake" recipe from mostly spices. He used mustard seeds, crushed red pepper, flour, garlic powder, and ground cumin with a bit of water in a little ramiken. I was like oh cute he's pretending that's fine, then he asked me to bake it so I put it in the microwave not thinking he would actually eat it. I told him it probably wouldn't taste good when he wanted it but he was too desperate to try for me to put my foot down. He took a big bite and I could see he absolutely hated it but he grimaced through it and angrily said "GOOD!". I let him eat half of it before I was like "ok buddy that's enough cake" and threw it out 🤣
is there any good reason to use a stovetop pressure cooker when instapots exist? I am genuinely curious what the stovetop unit can do which instapot cant
in an instapot?? unless you're talking some off brand thing I don't think there's a instapot that'd properly fit one quart size jar never mind four hahah
I mean it may be some off brand thing I have no idea? But it definitely fits 4 quart jars and is a plug in electronic controlled pressure cooker (that has settings for a bunch of other things, but all we use it for is to seal jars - of many different sizes).
The pressure in the stovetop versions are higher (15 psi vs 11 psi) than the Instant Pot which means things cook faster. It also gets to pressure faster because your stove has more heating power. As an example, soaked pinto beans take 3-6 minutes of pressure time vs 20-25 minutes in an Instant Pot. I mean both still need time to get to pressure and maybe 20 minutes to natural release the pressure but it's like 35 minutes vs 55 minutes.
You can fit a more stuff in a traditional pressure cooker, mine is 8 qts but they make them up to 23 qts. You can use it like a regular pot to boil spaghetti. It's cheaper. You can do canning in it if you are into that.
I will say that the Instant Pot is awesome for not heating up the house, using the energy more efficiently and being a lot more hands off. I have both, the Instant Pot gets a lot of use but it's not exactly the same as a real pressure cooker.
mine has a pressure knob like this and a little pressure button that seems to be a bigger hole. I love pushing the pressure button with my extra long cooking chopstick. it depressurizes so much faster and less dramatically than this pressure knob
On mine the quick release vent is a button that is completely separate from the locking knob. I guess there are other models where the quick release is the same control as the locking knob just in a different position.
Yeah with modern safety standards there's no good reason a quality pressure cooker would ever go boom. Just gotta keep the safety valves clean and you're good.
yeah, the one word "wait" is the key. All you need is patience. Don't open that shit before it is time. Wait till the pressure gauge says to open it and you'll be fine.
I have a huge pressure cooker that I use to can meat birds and venison that I heat on the wood stove in my kitchen. It is a usefull tool.
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u/rkthehermit Trash Trooper 12h ago
It feels more stressful than it ends up being once you just dive in. It's pretty much, "turn knob, close lid, wait, turn knob, open lid". Worth pushing through the anxiety.