Re:How the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following
by ajmurmann on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @10:02AM
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I'm not sure if you are using your regular pressure cooker correctly. Your vegetables should come out similar as if you steamed them. You are probably cooking them too long. The pressure cooker also shouldn't have to vent all the time. At least with my Kuhn Rikkon you have to carefully adjust the temperature to ensure the food is at the right temperature and then very little venting should happen. Of course that also requires constant monitoring and adjusting. But most things only need pressure cooking for 5-10 minutes anyways.
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Re:How the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following
by smanatstpete on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @10:54AM
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Maybe I was cooking them too long. I used to have a $90 cooker (I think it was T-Fal), but I could never get it to cook correctly. With Instant pot, the cooking time does not seem to matter. Same thing with venting. I could never get it to vent without much noise.
Re:How the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following
by namdnay on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @12:16PM
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the standard SEB pressure cooker that every household owns in France constantly vents when under pressure - there's a kind of spinning valve on the top that make a choo-choo train noise :)
usually you turn the hob to full until it starts spinning, then you reduce to low for the duration of the cooking