[Gingersnap]

I've used slow cookers for years (a real help when I was working) and have been using an Instant Pot Duo for 10 months. I can't speak to egg cooking since I use the amazing Cuisinart egg cooker for that stuff. But.....

The Instant Pot is incredible. When doing standard stuff like stews, soups, pot roasts, etc., the Saute feature means that you can brown the meat and soften your veggies in one pot. The manual pressure setting does what pressure cooking does: tender, juicy meats of all kinds.

It's also a slow cooker AND the adjustable temp means that your old 'Crock-Pot' recipes will turn out perfectly since modern slow cookers just eventually boil everything.

Bone broth takes an hour at pressure and maybe an hour and a half all told. It will turn into jelly once it cools. Tomato sauce is an hour. Yogurt is stupidly easy - way easier than my old yogurt maker. Risotto needs no baby-sitting. You can make polenta or cornmeal mush with the porridge setting (or make steel cut oatmeal if you like that sort thing).Tamales, anybody? Cheesecake? Want to make your own pumpkin pie filling? A pie pumpkin fits inside and so much easier.

Can you tell that I'm a fan?

[Jamestown1630]

Thanks very much. I especially want it for bone broth; and you’re right - the modern crockpots go to a boil no matter what.

We’re also thinking it would be good for things like spaghetti squash and acorn squash, that take so long in the oven.

[CottonBall]

OK, you convinced me. I need to get one!

It’s going to go at the top of my Christmas list.

[CottonBall]

Oh, Any advice on what brand to get? Size? Features?

[lizma2]

“The Instant Pot is incredible.”

Just when I thought I wouldn’t buy another kitchen gadget!

You guys and my friends are all telling me it’s a must. I’ll check out it tomorrow. UGH!