How the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following

Re:How the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following by Dove on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @03:07PM (#13814232)

Courtesy of my dad. This is good stuff, and makes 4 servings.

    1 cup steel cut oats
    4 cups water
    1/2 teaspoon salt
    Cook in Instapot, 5 min at 'Manual' pressure
    Let cool in Instapot for 20 minutes or until pressure relief button pops
    (if you don't let it depressurize slowly it will foam up inside and mess the lid)

    Add the following:
    2 Tablespoons of chunky peanut butter (heaping)
    2-3 heaping tablespoons of sugar (brown is better)
    5 shakes of Pensy's Chinese 5-spice powder
    4 shakes of Pensy's Star Anise powder

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Re:How the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following by tonyedgecombe on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @09:27AM (#13820415)

    1 cup steel cut oats
    4 cups water

That's as far as I get, I then cook it on the hob with a timer (7 minutes when cooking a single portion). I might occasionally add some sugar.

Clearly you and many other people are getting some benefit from the device, I'm really doubtful that I would.

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Re:How the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following by Angostura on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @05:07PM (#13815509)

Or place ingredients in bowl, microwave for 3 minutes.

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Re:How the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following by Dove on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @06:33PM (#13816311)

Wow, seriously? I know this sort of thing is the fashion these days on the internet, but dude. I'm standing right here.

Anyway. To take the comment seriously -- if only it were that easy! Perhaps one of the biggest selling points of the Instant Pot, at least around my house, is its ability to cook steel cut oats quickly, efficiently, and without needing to be watched.

On a further note -- what I've written here is what I received from my dad, but I've always just thrown everything in the pot at the start.

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Re:How the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following by mbrameld on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @05:37PM (#13815792)

3 minutes in the microwave isn't going to cook steel-cut oats...

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