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Just ordered a Instant Pot on Prime Deals, the only think I wanted it for is to make Tonkotsu broth but i know it can do a lot more. Besides that and Chinese Braised Pork, what do you guys, if you have one, cook in one?
What do you cook in a pressure / Slow Cooker
- Thread starter Raymond Lin
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As I understand it, the pressure in a pressure cooker will do what heating slow and low for a long time. Like breaking down fats (which is flavour). So you are cutting down cooking time.
The learning curve is because it is sealed, you don't need to add more water to begin with in order to simmer it down, you put in the amount of water you want at the start. But also bearing in mind that it takes time to pressurise so if you are just making a quite simple soup, it would not be any faster than on a stove.
But if you are cooking a 3hr, or 12hr stew or braise or anything needs slow, constant, long time, it will significantly reduce the cooking time with it.
Guess there is only one way to find out! Personally, I don't expect it to be as useful for curries as Spices in chillies and curries can overpower a lot of flavours to become the dominant flavour which means breaking down the protein in meat isn't as much of a benefit in a way which you can taste. It will no doubt make chicken or tough meat softer however.
Interesting. So you sweat onions, celery first in the pot? And just out all of the stock in at once and put the lid on?
There is a Sauté function, so you do that first to fry up ingredients, brown the meat etc. Then you throw in the rest and do the pressure cook part.
I find the saute function takes too long to heat up personally, so I ended up doing it on a saucepan on gas stove then transfered it back into the pressure cooker.