/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15035288
I've got a good beef cheek recipe for a pressure cooker. I just use a normal pressure cooker because I'm not a housewife that fell for the daytime marketing but I'm sure you can use it in your meme pot. Let me find it...

>>15035288
My family got one recently and I have cooked 3 things so far. Rice which turns out amazing and is so quick and easy. The other 2 things I wont share the recipes because they were not very nice, one was a vegan cauliflower tikka masala because my brother is vegan. It wasn't that good (I hate cauliflower) but the actual veggies cooked well and I was happy with the texture and saute mode. I also have made a beef birria, but that was really bad. The beef came out good, but I added probably 100 times too much cinnamon (I followed the recipe...) and it was hard to enjoy outside of tremendous amounts of tortilla, cheese and coriander. Maybe it is supposed to be like that though, I've never really made or eaten mexican food before so idk. I'll try something normal for me at some point and I'm sure it will be perfect, I'm very happy with the cooking speed and texture so far, I just seasoned stuff poorly.

>>15035314
Bottle of beer is 350ml pilsner. Also OP is a massive faggot asking for recipes and not sharing the ones he reckons are good

>>15035331
Based I'll try it

idk if they are meme pots or not. I think they get the meme label because they are kind of like cell phone cameras to having multiple cooking implements. But many of the chefs don't use a real camera anymore and just use their cell phones, whereas photographers would call theme meme faggots for doing so.

I am interested in the memepot + airfryer combo. I know the reddit response is "it's a convection oven".

>>15035288
These things are ideal for making bean. You can do dry beans in 30 minutes.
The thing I do most is chicky morsels. Just dice up chicken into nugget sized bites, flavor them how you like, and they come out perfect.

Mostly use mine for beans and rice and my fucking god it does a great job at that.
Basically anything vaguely stew-like or rice based is great. You can technically use them to sear and then pressure cook stuff like beef but ehh. Anything youd make in a sauce pot or a slow cooker is good, but faster done.

>>15035452
Theyre not revolutionary or anything, theyre just compact, handy, and easy to use. Its like people who whine about rice cookers "just use a pot waaah" fuck you this is way easier.
I think the meme comes from all the sad soccer moms trying to make every dish under the sun with them.

>>15035452
>>15035546
p.s. air friers are underrated

>>15035546
Yeah I imagine it just replaces a few things. I still would use a slow cooker because I enjoy the aromatic smells over hours it cooks as opposed to my roommates faggot smelly cat he illegally owns but guilted me into accepting. I can get an instant pot for like $100. If I wanted a bamboo steamer alone to fit on top of a 12" pot it would run me $30-50 for one niche function to make a few veg and boa buns

I also like that for instant pots specifically you can buy a separate air fryer attachment. I hate the process of deep frying, the smells of deep frying, and the clean up.

What is it with you Americans and your need to have every kitchen tool be its own electric countertop appliance?
Unless you need to make yoghurt, a stovetop drops pressure way faster because you can remove it from the heat source and even put it in cold water. You can also take it camping and use on a gas cooker since, did so on earlier this year on a campervan trip where the weather was just shit for grilling, so hearty stew and chili was much appreciated.

Anyway, it is great.
Unsoaked beans in 30 minutes, godly and fast rice and potatoes, stew, tomato sauces.

Also, since the pressure encourages the maillard effect, you can forgo browning in a pinch. Some of my best bolognese was literally just hastily chopped greens, tomato sauce and spices/boullion/etc in the cooker, with a brick of frozen minced beef.

It is really interesting for thawing.
Using frozen meat in your pressure cooker dish? Add 5 minutes. Cooking frozen chicken legs? Throw em in the cooker for 10, then broil in oven.
Frozen fish? Cooked in the blink of an eye

>>15035580
Its the microwave equivalent of a slow cooker. Its no substitute for slow cooking a pork rump for 9 hours for some dank tacos but if you just want pork tacos in an hour kick that bitch on.

>>15035331
Sorry, my recipes were pretty basic so didn't think anyone would care. The risotto was the first time I've ever made risotto so I kept it simple:

saute onions and garlic in some butter, add arborio rice and stir it in a little, then add chicken stock, stir and deglaze, then set pot to pressure cook for 9 mins. do a quick pressure release

open lid, stir, add in whatever "toppings" you want, i just used some cooked bacon lardons and air fried chicken thighs. add parmesan cheese and other seasonings to taste and mix in. wa la.

Only had mine for like 2 mo. Made some stews and chilis, turned out ok.
Best thing it's saves me lots of time, like doing it in a third of time.
There are tons of instapotty cookbooks out there. gug it

>2 lbs pork belly cut into 1 inch cubes
>1/2 cup water
>1/2 cup soy sauce
>1/2 cup beef stock
>2 tbsp dark soy sauce
>1/2 cup rice vinegar
>1/4 cup sugar
>4 garlic cloves
>1/2 tsp five spice
I put it all in the instant pot on high pressure for 30 minutes and let it depressurize for 15 minutes, removed the meat to a baking sheet and put it under the broiler for a few minutes because I thought it was a good idea. Reduced the liquids in the pot by about half then tossed the meat back in before serving it over rice.
I thought it was really good but what can I do to improve? I am not a smart man.

>>15036331
Sounds really good. I think I'm finna boutta finna finna gonna try this

I made oxtails, to see what all the hipster fuss was about. It was very good.

https://www.myforkinglife.com/jamaican-oxtails/

And no, IP's aren't a meme, they're useful as shit, all shitposting aside, its just the normiebook/reddit fanbase, like the cast iron fanbase is intolerable as shit.

>>15036331
Nothing to really improve honestly. You're basically making char siu real quick.

Only things I could think of.

>swap out sugar for honey or brown sugar
>put in whole spices instead of just the powder
>glaze the meat while it's in the broiler
>toss the meat on a grill instead of in the broiler
>serve with kimchi and other pickled veggies to cut the richness.

And all that is personal preference really. Never made it this way, but I definitely might in the future seems like a big time saver.

>>15035288
Beef stew is an easy success. I like to do it with taking the whole roast and cutting myself. The ones already cut for stew always seem a little tough to me.

It's also really solid for making a good sausage ziti.

>>15035288
Split Pea (or lentil) and Ham soup works out pretty well with the instapot.

>>15036331
I like to saute/broil the meat first, since with some dry meat you can get some good color - then toss the whole thing in the pot to hydrate.
I have no clue if that's right or not. What are you thinking when you do the in and out with the meat?

>>15036555
I'll definitely try it with honey or brown sugar next time I try this. I was hoping i could reduce the liquid enough for a good glaze but it still ends up too thin. I was unsure if it would turn out as well if I thickened it up with a corn starch slurry, coated the meat and then put in the oven.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_9P9GRqGcs

incredible results