Instant Pot

[pc farmer]

Ok guys. This isn't a debate between a insta pot and a pressure cooker. @chopsaw was posting a new toy. I have a Ninja, it does alot of stuff. Some not so great but it still does it.

 

[motocrash]

I agree with Adam...

 

[KrisUpInSmoke]

1. Find a stainless steel cup that is just short of the lid of the insta pot
2. Add water beer or whatever to cup
3. stick cup against the wall of the insta pot turn on sauté mode to get the cup and water hot
3. and chilli around the cup but don't add so it goes over the top of it
4. Shut lid and cook like you would have should be enough liquid now to get the pressure build up without watering down your chili

Have you tried this to see if it works?
A problem with that might be that the liquid/content is so thick that it will scorch and burn, because a couple times when I got the error things were starting to burn on the bottom from the heating up cycle before the cook.

 

[johnmeyer]

Ok guys. This isn't a debate between a insta pot and a pressure cooker. @chopsaw was posting a new toy. I have a Ninja, it does alot of stuff. Some not so great but it still does it.

I wasn't trying to start a debate, but only pointing out that if your main reason to get the Instapot is for the pressure cooker, there are a lot of advantages to getting a "real" stovetop cooker.

And, I'll add one more argument to the ones I presented.

In this post, Chris says his Instapot shut down probably because the bottom got a little dry and therefore exceeded 212 (I assume that is how the sensor works). With a stovetop cooker, you don't have that limitation.

Having said that, I've made dozens and dozens of chili meals in my pressure cooker (it does a fabulous job on chili, both ground beef and meat cubes) and, if you don't pay close attention to both the heat and the liquid, it will burn a little bit on the bottom.

 

[campfire218]

From what can tell all an “instant pot” is just an electric pressure cooker. A stove top come up to pressure in about half time with cooking times about the same.

I have both, and the stovetop pressure cooker sits unused on a shelf in my garage now. I actually like the ability to "set it and forget it" I've never gotten an error code on my instant pot and have had far fewer food failures with it than I did with the stovetop unit.