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give me the strait dope on these, they feel like a meme unitasker.

>> No.15133140

>>15133122
You can use that model to sterilize multi-use injection vials. Great for roid monkeys and ketamine addicts

>> No.15133148

>>15133122
slowcooker, rice cooker, yogurt maker, and pressure cooker. You can make cheesecake and hardboiled eggs in it too.

>> No.15133151

>>15133122
>cook rice just as well as a rice cooker
>cook stock in 1/5 the time
>cook stew in 1/5 the time
>autoclave multiuse injection vials
Hardly a unitasker. I don't own one but thought about getting one instead of a true unitasker like a rice cooker.

>> No.15133268

>>15133122
It's a pressure cooker. You can use it to do anything you use a pressure cooker to do. If you like making curries, stews, soups, etc. it reduces the cooking time and, in my opinion, the pressure really moves the flavor through everything---meat that you cook will be tender and absorb the flavor of whatever you put it in.

>> No.15133321

>>15133122
My wife wanted one mainly because she wants everything, not because she can cook for shit. I really dont feel like changing how I cook to accomodate some gadget

>> No.15133331

>>15133321
You can make your wife happy and learn a better way to do things, you sound like a real asshole

>> No.15133332

>>15133122
>meme unitasker
They pressure cook beans and rice with less water and shut themselves off when they're done. I own one of these and the more conventional industrial type of pressure cooker (Decor which I believe is just a rebranded Fagor) and so far I'm not disappointed with the Instant Pot. Made a decent cheesecake in it too.

>> No.15133339

>>15133332
*less water than a conventional pressure cooker

>> No.15133349

>>15133331
Im not an asshole. I just dont feel like changing how I cook. Ive have never been in the kitchen and thought, if I only had an instant pot

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>>15133122
> They are gayer than the twink faggot at the bar near my house. Have separate appliances that actually do a good job at everything.

>> No.15133517

hey man, asked kinda the same question here

>>>15126191

>> No.15133623
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>Visited my my mom
>she had little one on the counter, and I mean little like 1 qt
>I used it to make like four pork chops and 2 cut up potatoes in 20 mins
>food came out a 7/10
>she gave me that one and I loved it so much I bought a 10qt
>and a couple cookbooks for it
>I use mine all the time

If you have kids opie, go for it, they're handy as a motherfucker.

>> No.15133709

I like that you can saute all of your shit in it before pressure cooking so it's more of a one-pot meal. My only complaint is that recipes for it online are very hit-or-miss. Some burn, some don't fully cook, etc.

Anyone got tips for porting standard pressure cooker recipes to an instant pot? Might be a dumb question but I don't wanna mess up cooking dal or something in it.

>> No.15133738

>>15133331
You sound like a real faggot. You're one of those fucking bitches who buys everything for his wife because it makes her happy for a minute.

>> No.15133846
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>christmas shill threads

>> No.15134142

>>15133122
These are a meme only plebs who don't know how to cook use and white women too

>> No.15134169

I mostly use the slow cooker function which isn't as good as a regular slow cooker. It seems to take much longer than a standard slow cooker. For something that might get 6 hour in a slow cooker, I would give it 8 hours in the instant pot. The standard lid does not let out enough steam so sauce has a tendency to stay watery and not reduce enough. It is improved if you also purchase the glass lid though.

Having a rice cooker and pressure cooker is an added bonus for me. Im willing to put up with the slightly worse slow cooker function to have the added benefits of pressure cooker and rice cooker. I never would have bought those two things if they were stand alone items so all three in one machine is useful.

>> No.15134506

>>15133846
LISTEN YOU FUCKING FAGGOT, 4CHAN /ck/ IS NOT USEFUL AS A MARKETING SITE AND PEOPLE ARE ENTITLED TO TALK ABOUT THINGS WITH BRAND NAMES
KILL YOURSELF ON LIVESTREAM AND MAKE IT MESSY YOU JOYLESS CUNT

>> No.15134864

>>15133122
It's pretty good, I often use it to make lazy chili or shredded meat an hour or two by dumping shit in with water and seasonings.

It also makes pretty good rice too.

>> No.15134879
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15134879

>UNITASKERS BAD

>> No.15135668

>>15133122
I'm a single guy and I have one. it's alright desu. I would really only recommend it if you do a lot of meal prep or have to feed a family. Otherwise I would rather just buy a small cheap slow cooker.

>> No.15135688

I make tons of shit in this because I like to cook that way. Biggest time saver for me is for stock. I’ll typically make 4 quarts on a Sunday, use the stock that week for whatever. Super fast, like 2h instead of 8h, and doesn’t make the house smell like boiled carcass, I do chili, beans, stews, etc during winter. I use it to make yogurt a couple time a month (makes 1/3 gallon each time.) I have a rice cooker , which was a gift, so I don’t use the instapot for rice. This fucker gets used all the time and, for real, the time savings is important to me.

>> No.15135705

so what i'm getting from this thread is that it's actually a meme multitasker

>> No.15136007

I bought one of these despite already having a standard rice cooker just because

>> No.15136013

>>15133122
We use it daily, steaming veg, cooking rice, stews, stocks, etc. Contrarians hate it because it’s popular, it’s actually useful, especially if you have a small kitchen as it frees up the cooker and is very self contained.

>> No.15136042

>>15133122
>"they feel like a meme unitasker"
>soup
>rice
>stew
>chili
>porridge
>poultry
>steam
>sauté
>pressure cook
>yogurt

>> No.15136045

>>15133122
I can't speak for everyone but I'm a travelling contractor. I live in hotel rooms. 90% of my meals are cooked in one of these things or on an electric skillet.

It works. I can make rice (with stuff in it, an entire meal). Stews and all that shit, obviously. Pot roast. I can cook a whole chicken, ribs, ect. It's not the best in the world, it's just a way of cooking the food. It's fairly quick and it works.

>> No.15136067

>>15133122
Have fun having this explode on you, my mom filed a lawsuit because that shits lid blew off and burned the hell out of her.

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>>15136067
>being so retarded your mom can't operate a simple pressure cooker.
Well she had you and clearly the autism was passed down :3

>> No.15137676
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15137676

Got it as a gift since my crockpot was old.

Use it 3 or 4 times a week now for different stuff, love it.

>> No.15137731

>>15133122
What’s the best cookbook for these things?

>> No.15137764

>>15133122
Its not a unitasker. No more than an electric stove top is a unitasker. Its good for cooking anything you would usually cook in a pot, or pressure cooker. I find it doesn't scorch on the bottom like most stove top pressure cookers.

>> No.15138579

>>15133122
>buy Instapot
>buy jumbo sized eggs
>1 minute, release pressure, ice bath

perfect softboiled eggs. don't let niggers tell you that this isn't worth buying one.

>> No.15138583

>>15133122
pot roast gets done in 1/5 the time and tastes better

>> No.15138734

>>15133122
A convenient pressure-cooker. I thought it was crap too, but I use it more than my analogue tfalt

>> No.15138785

Its actually fantastic. The only “meme” thing about it is that depending on how full it is it could take 30 minutes to pressurize, so the whole marketing thing of “cooks in half the time” is bullshit.

>> No.15138932

>>15138785
That's only if you're doing a natural release recipe instead of just hitting the release. Even then, short ribs in under an hour that are as tender as if braised for 4 is totally worth it.

>> No.15138942

>>15133122
the only benefit over a slow cooker is that there's a lot of recipes for it out there.

>> No.15139075

>>15138942
This is straight bullshit.

>> No.15139081

>>15133122
>a meme unitasker.
complain about them if you want but they certainly aren't a unitasker

>> No.15139084

>>15138785
even with that its still super fast, just not quite as fast as some recipes suggest

>> No.15139101

>>15133349
>Ive have never been in the kitchen and thought
there's your problem, smoothbrain

>> No.15139105 [DELETED] 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBFWDeOGicM&t=3s

>> No.15139424

The saute function is shit so stews come out terrible unless you transfer to a pot on your stove, in which case, why bother.

No reason to use one over a stove top pressure cooker. They're slower, prone to electrical faults and have even less versatility. Inferior in literally every way.

>> No.15139449

>>15139424
>No reason to use one over a stove top pressure cooker.
it doesn't take up space on your stove top and is easier to use, pretty simple. Also the saute works fine, not sure what trouble you have had

>> No.15140223

>>15133122
Not a unitasker, but i can't wrap my head around why they don't crank the temp up a bit and add a basket to make it a deep fryer too.

>> No.15140238

>>15140223
bc they would get sued bc someone would try to pressure fry like chic-fil-a does and catch their house and family on fire.

>> No.15140243

>>15140238
That's what asbestos is for, duh.

>> No.15140249

>>15133122
>unitasker
Alton brown is an autistic faggot. I can guarantee he owns more dumb cooking shit than anyone on this board, dumb bitch probably owns like 50 different pots and pans alone yet preaches against unitasking

>> No.15140250

>>15139101
you're the smoothbrain here anon
lrn2read

>> No.15140261

>>15133122
Started using mine for decarbing and making cannaoil in glass jars. Quick and easy.
The ultra model gives burn warnings a lot when cooking. I recommend the other models.

>> No.15140478

>>15133122
>unitasker
>shows settings for multiple tasks

>> No.15140709

>>15133122
I've been using one for years. It's by far the most convenient method for cooking stew type dishes because you don't need to supervise it. Put the ingredients in, close the lid, press the button, and come back some time later. It doesn't matter exactly when because it holds the food at a safe temperature after it's done cooking. It might not be as delicious as traditional methods done by an expert, but it's near impossible to fuck it up, and it takes about 1/10th the effort, so it's the ideal product for lazy people. I consider it second only in importance to the microwave.

>unitasker
Unitasker hate is a meme. Everybody complaining about unitaskers unironically owns a toaster and doesn't notice the contradiction.

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>>15140249
Alton's hate for unitaskers is for shit like an avocado tool that does the job worse than just using a knife and a spoon.

By definition, an electric pressure cooker is less of a unitasker than a rice cooker, but if you're eating rice every day, Alton himself has no complaints about owning such a device.

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>cooks food
Yep it's a unitasker all right.

>> No.15140769

>>15137676
imagine holding her legs down and then shoving your face into her crotch she wouldn't be able to get away haha

>> No.15140793

>>15140249
>50 different pots and pans
Yes, and they can all be used as cooking vessels, baking dishes, meat mallets, or pepper crushers.

>> No.15140798

>>15140709
>Everybody complaining about unitaskers unironically owns a toaster and doesn't notice the contradiction.
Toaster ovens are a thing.
They make better toast than slot toasters do, and also grill hotdogs.

>> No.15141742

>>15133122
I don't have the room, otherwise I'd have bought one. A regular pressure cooker can do most of its more useful things too though.

>> No.15141745

I got one as a wedding present and have never once used it

>> No.15141824

>>15141745
If you spent less time namefagging on a black widow spider venom milking board you might have.

>> No.15142339

>>15133709
isn't a normal pressure cooker a pot with a special lid, which you could also sear or saute in