Cooking can be tough and intimidating. You need to meal plan, buy groceries, have the correct cooking tools, cook, and then wash dishes. Since cooking needs so many steps, it becomes so easy to order delivery on Seamless or to eat at a restaurant. Luckily, that is where the Instant Pot comes in to save you time and money. This cooking appliance is known to cook fast (whole frozen chicken in under an hour) and it is also a multi-cooker.
What can the Instant Pot do?
The Instant Pot is a pressure cooker, slow cooker, rice cooker, sauté pot, steamer, warmer, and yogurt maker. Thus, the Instant Pot also saves you money and counter space because it replaces seven kitchen appliances.
Where can I learn how to use one?
Luckily, there are so many resources on Facebook for recipes, tutorials on YouTube, and pins on Pinterest. I even attended a live Instant Pot cooking demo at Bloomingdales that I found on Eventbrite. My roommate also owns an Instant Pot, so I have been learning in the kitchen as well.
How do the dishes taste?
I tried baked potatoes at the Instant Pot Cooking demonstration and it was so delicious! I was amazed at how fast it was to cook baked potatoes. For example, baked potatoes take 18 minutes to cook in the Instant Pot, whereas in the oven it takes 45 minutes. Also if someone blindfolded me I would not have known the difference between a baked potato made in the oven or one made in an Instant Pot.
Where can I buy an Instant Pot?
Amazon is the easiest, since if you have in Prime it comes in two days. Depending on the model it costs $89.95-$199.95.
3 Instant Pot Meal Planning Guides
- Instant Pot Meal Plan (One Happy Housewife)
- Instant Pot/Slow Cooker Meal Plan for a Month (365 Days of Slow + Pressure Cooking)
- Meal Plan Monday {Instant Pot} (Instant Loss)
2 Free Instant Pot Demo Events ( NYC)
- Instant Pot Cooking (Friday, May 10, 2019 6pm-7:30pm)
- Instant Pot Cooking (Friday, May 24, 2019 6pm-7:30pm)
5 Upcoming Free Food Events (NYC)
- Family Cooking Class: Look Who’s Cooking – May 11th (Saturday, May 11, 2019 10:30am – 12pm)
- Cooking with All-Clad (Monday, May 13, 2019 6pm – 7:30pm)
- Korean Grandma’s Kimchi at Essex Street Market’s Grand Opening Party (Saturday, May 18, 2019 12:45pm – 1:15pm)
- Cooking with All-Clad (Monday, May 20, 2019 6pm – 7:30pm)
- Family Cooking Class: Look Who’s Cooking – June 8th (Saturday, June 8, 2019 10:30am – 12pm)