I got the small Instant Pot and love it.
Brought it home at 4:00 O’clock and served tender beef stew at 5:15.
Like anything, there is a learning curve. Set up the Instant Pot first and use
the warm up time for the rest of the meal.
Oh yeah, jiggle the pressure valve to make sure it is seated. Otherwise it will vent steam and never switch to pressure.
Crane
The November 2017 Consumer Reports reviews insta pots.
I nearly threw it away and then remembered this thread. Plan to read it now.
Never heard of one till I saw they were being recalled on the new. Seems some of them like to melt, and/or catch fire.
Didn’t bother to watch the whole segment to get further details, as I don’t have one.
Same company, different product.
Well, this is interesting. This just came out on Inc.com
Since I hate it when posters link to something but don’t tell me what I’m about to open… The author talks about the Instant Pot and it’s many uses… including making wine! 
Ditto, I am totally obsessed now - those ladies are hilarious.
Unless you’re running a chinese restaurant needing mass quantities, you shouldn’t need anything special like this to make rice. It’s literally as simple as boiling water on a stovetop.
And Randall refers to research chemist Derek Lowe’s blog in that article – Derek was best friends with one of my freshman roommates in college, and (as you might imagine from his blog) responsible some of the more imaginative pranks I’ve ever been involved in (mostly as a collateral victim).
So I saw a recipe online for cooking frozen fish. I put in 1/4 cup of lemon juice, and 3/4 cup of water. Set the frozen fish (some white fish, cod maybe?) on the rack, and cooked it on manual for 5 minutes. It tasted OK, but it wasn’t very flaky; it was slightly tough in texture.
Suggestions?
You had better make sure you check that they’re allowed first. When I was in college you couldn’t even have a stand-alone microwave (just a bizarre fridge/microwave combo leased from the college), let alone a crock pot, pressure cooker, or hot plate.
My only suggestion is that does not seem like something that would cook well in a pressure cooker. I wouldn’t cook it that way, but I’d be somewhat interested to hear if anyone had good results (although, to me, it’s just as fast to fry it up or steam it the conventional way.)
Yeah, if i had access to an actual stove and a frying pan, I’d saute that in a little butter, and then drizzle lemon juice on top after it was cooked.
I’m getting more comfortable with me instant pot. I’ve now done three beef dishes (brisket, short ribs, chuck roast), chicken broth, and rice in it. Making a nicely cooked stew after supper (to serve the next evening) is convenient. Being able to brothify a chicken carcass after supper and be done before bed time was a huge win, and the broth was excellent. Rice is easy, but rice is easy on the stove, too, so that will probably be an occasional thing.
What’s this word “allowed” mean? That didn’t stop us from having a full sized refrigerator in the dorm; where we stored a ton of beer which we weren’t allowed to have, and cooked food on a hotplate which we also weren’t supposed to have. Also we rebuilt our beds into bunk beads so we’d have more room in the actual dorm. Yes this was in the early 80s when dorms weren’t private bedroom apartments. If you didn’t pick on, you got assigned a roommate.
Bunk beds or lofts? If you mean lofts, they have been ‘legal’ for quite a long time. I first went to college in fall of 1985 and lofting beds was pretty much standard by then.
That was also the year full-sized refrigerators became ‘illegal’. They had been ‘legal’ before then.
Bunk Bed; but what’s the difference? Isn’t a loft bed basically a bunk bed with nothing underneath it? In my old style dorms every room had two twin beds, two tiny desks, and two closets that could be locked. Regardless we built bunk beds in anticipation of moving a sofa into our room, but I don’t remember that ever panning out. This was in 1980-81.
Did you two go to the same school or do all college dorms in the country have a uniform set of furniture regulations now?
It’s not the 80s anymore. Rooms are inspected every other month or so to make sure you’re not violating the fire/safety rules, and you’re written up if you are. If you’re a repeat offender you can be kicked out of your dorm for having contraband items.
Neither of my kids mentioned that. I will ask, but I don’t think that is generally true.