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Originally Posted by KyBunnies
I use a pressure cooker all the time during the summer for canning and whatnot but I have never used one to make chili. both of my pressure cookers are rather large to hold the canning jars. I honestly do not know if I would enjoy an electric one.
Loved the post about the electric pressure cooker. I added this to my wishlist. Thanks!
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Keep in mind, this one is a pressure COOKER (as are all the electric versions available), not a pressure CANNER. I have several canners (all large to huge) that I use, along with a small electric canner (which only does things that would work in a boiling water bath canner and is very restrictive in it's recipes, I found). You can't use a cooker for canning (for several reasons: you don't have the volume required inside to get even pressure, you don't have pressure that can be calibrated for the values required by canning, etc), but you can cook in a canner (not that I personally every do - I don't like aluminum for cooking, wouldn't want to pit my canner, and they are big and bulky and heavy).
The Instant Pot is my favorite all-in-one device, so far. One pot (plus the steamer basket I modified), does several things, small footprint for camping, plus the inner pot and steamer can be used on their own as mixing bowl and colander. I've had other electric pressure cookers in the past, but they use non-stick pots (not stainless) and are larger. My old slow cooker had a glass liner (heavy and breakable); it was nice that it was larger (and had a divided pot, if you wanted to try two things at once), but that also meant it didn't work quite as well when wanting to make a smaller amount.
Not that the chili was a "smaller" amount - that pot was pretty full and fed five adults (one that had been hiking all day) with plenty left over.