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Re:Instant Brands, maker of Instant Pot and Pyrex cookware, ... by bombcar on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @11:55AM (#36312111)
Ours is mainly a glorified rice cooker that sometimes does something else.

As a rice cooker, it cooks rice.

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Re:Instant Brands, maker of Instant Pot and Pyrex cookware, ... by pessimizer on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @01:10PM (#36313350)
You're missing out, because you should be using it to make beans. As a bean cooker, it turns a annoying multi-hour job into from dry to beautifully cooked in an hour. As a rice cooker, you should just use a rice cooker, they're like 1/3 the price and you can run it at the same time as the bean cooker.
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Re:Instant Brands, maker of Instant Pot and Pyrex cookware, ... by bombcar on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:11PM (#36314274)
I really do need to get into the bean scene, but we have had issues [1] in the past.

[1] https://www.whelenmassnotification.com/wp-content/uploads/si...

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Re:Instant Brands, maker of Instant Pot and Pyrex cookware, ... by imp0cat on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @02:10AM (#36322031)
YMMV, but the rice cooker is mostly collecting dust since I got and Instant Pot. Why? The IP is much faster than a rice cooker. Also, the inner vessel is more durable - it's stainless steel (as opposed to the non-stick coating in the rice cooker), so no worries about scratches, dishwasher, etc... .
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