re: #112 Dread Pirate

I got my wife a Ninja Foodi but she’s terrified of using the pressure cooker feature. She finally used it this week to make corned beef and cabbage. It came out well and I think she’ll use that more often.

I love the Instant Pot we have. Like your wife, my wife is still kinda reluctant to attack it. I took to it like a duck to water. As has been mentioned, dry beans are great from one. No soaking overnight and ready within an hour. I have experimented with all kinds of things in it, some came out great, some not so great, but nothing terrible so far (fingers crossed).

Couple weeks ago wife was doing sausage and cabbage and told me to get the crock pot out (it is fairly large and in the lower cabinets). I told her to try the Instant Pot which has a crock pot (slow cook) feature. She said she would rather use the old trusty crock. I decided to look up the slow cook feature online to see what people were doing with it. Seems that the standard configuration of an Instant Pot isn’t really well suited for slow cooking. Locking the cover doesn’t let any steam release and affects how things cook. There are substitute lids that have a ventilator on them that take care of this problem from what I could find. I may have to pick up one.

Kinda glad she turned down trying it. If things didn’t come out as expected it might have turned her off totally from using it for anything else. Guess I’ll have to pick up one of those lids made special for slow cooking, then I’ll get her to try it.

She also complains it is too large (8qt). Got daughter a 5qt which she thinks would be a better size for us now that we are empty nesters, and she is right. But we already have the one we have (a christmas gift from her sisters and mother a few years back). We’ll cross that bridge later. I would just like it if she would do a little experimenting with the one we have.