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MGVINCE Member Joined Mar 2009 Posts 1856 EE 100% (24) MO, USA	Posted: 2/17/2024 1:33:49 PM EDT Needing to replace our ceramic crock pot slow cooker. We just use it for soups and roasts. Have you found the Instant Pots just fads that you don’t use anymore? Are they really much more useful? Looks like they can do a lot. Would be open to try other things cooked in one. Thanks.
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TrashWrencher 11B24J3 Joined Dec 2010 Posts 28569 EE 100% (5) MO, USA	Posted: 2/17/2024 2:33:08 PM EDT [Last Edit: TrashWrencher] [#1] My wife loves hers. She’s made beans, various chicken dishes, cooked spaghetti squash, hard boiled eggs, her dad makes yogurt in his, pretty much everything you’d crockpot all day you can do in a half hour. While I couldn’t care less (I don’t use it), it’s on our counter several times a month.

tree-hugger Member Joined Aug 2009 Posts 13060 EE 100% (1) USA	Posted: 2/17/2024 2:50:44 PM EDT [#2] Every meal we've made with ours has been a real hit.
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smullen LARUEMINATI Joined May 2005 Posts 26812 EE 0% (0) MO, USA	Posted: 2/17/2024 4:18:08 PM EDT [#3] Wife had to have one, she might used it 4 or 5 times, now that Air Fryer I bought her, she uses the fuq outta that thing and so do the kids.... I dont use either.
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dfariswheel Joined Feb 2005 Posts 10326 EE 0% (0) USA	Posted: 2/17/2024 8:18:38 PM EDT [#4] There's always some new fad kitchen appliance. The only two that seem to really be useful are a crock pot and an air fryer. My wife often makes corned beef brisket, cheesy chicken, and pot roast in the slow cooker.

1MoreFord Joined Mar 2014 Posts 726 EE 0% (0) AR, USA	Posted: 2/18/2024 6:44:13 PM EDT [#5] If you're going to replace your slow cooker one way or another get an instant pot. They slow cook plus many other things. A slow cooker is an Alton Brown single tasker while an instant pot is a multitasker.

MGVINCE Member Joined Mar 2009 Posts 1857 EE 100% (24) MO, USA	Posted: 2/18/2024 9:20:29 PM EDT [#6] Thanks for the replies. I’ll go ahead and do some more research on the Insta Pot.
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zercool Joined Apr 2008 Posts 6156 EE 100% (75) MO, USA	Posted: 2/19/2024 4:48:55 AM EDT [#7] We love ours. Wife makes chicken stock from bones every time we get a Costco chicken - no need to simmer for hours, just pressure cooks for 30-45 minutes and done. I do ham and beans. Frozen ham and dry beans to hot soup in an hour.

danos660r Joined Oct 2008 Posts 3008 EE 0% (0) MO, USA	Posted: 2/21/2024 1:23:21 AM EDT [#8] It's the best for chicken to get it to the fall apart kind of cooked. Some people make cakes in them. That and the air fryer are life changes.

JJKrzos Joined Nov 2004 Posts 442 EE 100% (11) MO, USA	Posted: 2/21/2024 11:22:41 AM EDT [#9] Hi, Wife uses an oval slow cooker from Ninja for everything, stew to soups. She loves it. I'm partial to a versatile air fryer oven.

drobs Member Joined May 2003 Posts 11451 EE 100% (5) MO, USA	Posted: 2/22/2024 7:35:17 AM EDT [#10] Our Insta Pot sits on the shelf unused. Just too complicated. Our air fryer doubles as a toaster. We use it as a toaster. We use the heck out of our Crockpot.

tree-hugger Member Joined Aug 2009 Posts 13096 EE 100% (1) USA	Posted: 2/22/2024 10:35:58 AM EDT [#11] We had our first bad meal out of the instant pot last night. We had frozen fish of grouper meat consistency that didn't cook all the way like the recipe said it would. We had to finish it off in the microwave because we were impatient. All three of us had just returned from the gym and we were ready to feed.
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Originally Posted By tree-hugger:
We had our first bad meal out of the instant pot last night.

We had frozen fish of grouper meat consistency that didn't cook all the way like the recipe said it would. We had to finish it off in the microwave because we were impatient. All three of us had just returned from the gym and we were ready to feed.

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Remove and clean your pressure relief device. I found it fails to seat when dirty from heavy use. This in turn prevents the Insta Pot from reaching enough pressure to cook. Other parts that can fail are the head gasket. Make sure it isn't stretched out, damaged, or dirty.

We love our 'Pot and use it for soups, pull-apart chicken, chilis, you name it.

Still use a dedicated rice cooker though.

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