InstantPot electric pressure cooker

Graetzbridge · 24 Jul 2022 at 13:26

We got it yesterday. My dear wife did a marinated chicken with vegetables. For lunch today we had a delicious macaroni with five cheeses. For dinner tonight it will be a gammon. In my wife's words it is a game changer.

Diddums · 24 Jul 2022 at 13:28

Edge of my seat here, tell us more! Tell us more!

dlockers · 24 Jul 2022 at 13:29

Pics of wife

Graetzbridge · 24 Jul 2022 at 13:33

dLockers said:
Pics of wife

I don't know what your wife looks.

labbby · 24 Jul 2022 at 13:33

pics of wife in instantpot

Kenai · 24 Jul 2022 at 13:34

Why only five cheeses?

Graetzbridge · 24 Jul 2022 at 13:36

labbby said:
pics of wife in instantpot

Why would you put your wife in an Instapot?

Chris Wilson · 24 Jul 2022 at 13:36

Pressure cookers seemed to go out of fashion, but were a fast and energy efficient way to cook many different dishes.

Graetzbridge · 24 Jul 2022 at 13:38

Kenai said:
Why only five cheeses?

I guess she just had five different cheeses.............

dlockers · 24 Jul 2022 at 13:39

Kenai said:
Why only five cheeses?

Inflation

dlockers · 24 Jul 2022 at 13:39

Chris Wilson said:
Pressure cookers seemed to go out of fashion, but were a fast and energy efficient way to cook many different dishes.

Caused death occasionally in your day didn't they?

Graetzbridge · 24 Jul 2022 at 13:44

Chris Wilson said:
Pressure cookers seemed to go out of fashion, but were a fast and energy efficient way to cook many different dishes.

Yes but this is more than your regular pressure cooker. My wife has one of those too. Actually my mother had one about 60 years ago.

BUDFORCE · 24 Jul 2022 at 14:16

Could you fill it with vegetable oil and use it as a "broiler" or pressurised deep fryer?

Diddums · 24 Jul 2022 at 14:26

dLockers said:
Caused death occasionally in your day didn't they?

So did the black death.

Tony Edwards · 24 Jul 2022 at 14:32

Chris Wilson said:
Pressure cookers seemed to go out of fashion, but were a fast and energy efficient way to cook many different dishes.

dLockers said:
Caused death occasionally in your day didn't they?

Kids today. You just dont know the horrors we lived through so you could have safe products. They were not like they are now. Instead of a valve you had a weighted lump of metal to allow the steam to escape slowly but sometimes a pressure cooker going off and shooting that thing into the sky could cause serious damage if that weight hit someone. Then you also have a massive jet of steam coming out of the pot that had to be stopped.

You youngens just dont understand.

Chris Wilson · 24 Jul 2022 at 14:43

dLockers said:
Caused death occasionally in your day didn't they?

I can't say I have ever heard of one causing death, but like any pressure vessel they need respect.

Chris Wilson · 24 Jul 2022 at 14:49

Diddums said:
So did the black death.

Another Chinese virus....

Having originated in China and Inner Asia, the Black Death decimated the army of the Kipchak khan Janibeg while he was besieging the Genoese trading port of Kaffa (now Feodosiya) in Crimea (1347). With his forces disintegrating, Janibeg catapulted plague-infested corpses into the town in an effort to infect his enemies. From Kaffa, Genoese ships carried the epidemic westward to Mediterranean ports, whence it spread inland, affecting Sicily (1347); North Africa, mainland Italy, Spain, and France (1348); and Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Germany, and the Low Countries (1349). A ship from Calais carried the plague to Melcombe Regis, Dorset, in August 1348. It reached Bristol almost immediately and spread rapidly throughout the southwestern counties of England. London suffered most violently between February and May 1349, East Anglia and Yorkshire during that summer. The Black Death reached the extreme north of England, Scotland, Scandinavia, and the Baltic countries in 1350.

Chris Wilson · 24 Jul 2022 at 14:57

BUDFORCE said:
Could you fill it with vegetable oil and use it as a "broiler" or pressurised deep fryer?

Kentucky Fried Chicken, you have a potential competitor

Neighbours of BUDFORCE, check your house insurance immediately

Hotwired · 24 Jul 2022 at 17:26

BUDFORCE said:
Could you fill it with vegetable oil and use it as a "broiler" or pressurised deep fryer?

Yes people do that.

The manufacturers of domestic pressure cookers do not want to hear anything about it because

- you get that oil considerably higher than the 130 degrees that water based cooking reaches so that's the seals and safety features getting questionable
- if the worst happens and the pressure vessel blows out a safety valve (as it's meant to) or blows the lid because the safety valve fails then everything is covered in boiling oil and oil vapour which sets up the room to be a decent fire bomb.

BUDFORCE · 24 Jul 2022 at 19:16

You can buy them, but commercial grade only, usually gas fired, and they are seriously expensive, like £3000+ for a used one.

Basically a deep fryer but with a lid on your crank down. The idea is the moisture in whatever you are deep frying can't escape you you get your food deep fried but also moist.

And yes, I was messing, I really wouldn't attempt that with some Amazon electric toy.