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Old 01-04-2018, 01:14 PM   #398
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Originally Posted by sjfan View Post
So this thing is not a good pressure cooker (like most electric pressure cookers, it can't get the pressure that a real cooker gets), and it's not a good crock pot, and it's not a good replacement for a Dutch oven. I wanted to like it, but it tries to be 5 or 6 different things, and is incredibly mediocre at all of them.

You're much better off getting a good Dutch oven or pressure cooker than this POS--you can get the Lodge Dutch oven at Target for $30-40, and it'll do a hell of a lot more and better than the Instant Pot will.
Well, no. Obviously, a Dutch Oven and an IP/Pressure Cooker are two completely different things. I have several DO recipes that I wouldn't convert, for one reason or another, but I've been shocked, after a lifetime of what I'd refer to as more-advanced cooking than the average bear, at just how well this DOES work. I've already made a number of dishes I would have thought couldn't work out well, in an IP/PC, and I was, I'm happy to say, completely wrong. The IP/PC versions came out brilliantly.

I am inferring that you are deriving this opinion from the Daily Mall article, presumably, but...the Amazon IP factoids should tell you that if it were true that the IP was "mediocre" at all these things, it wouldn't have the fanatical following that it does. (Not to say that the masses necessarily recognize quality, in food or anything else--otherwise, there's no explaining reality TV, Kardashians, etc.--but there would have been a clear schism between people who KNOW how to genuinely cook, and people who can assemble a recipe, when it's provided in detail, and there hasn't been. Foodies haven't turned their noses up at the IP, nor Foodie rags. Wouldn't they have been the very FIRST to say that it's the tool of a lousy cook?)

It's been a lifesaver for me with my work schedule--but not simply because it's remarkably fast for "comfort food" meals, but because the food is incredibly GOOD. Not mediocre.

But, hey...I don't think that anyone here is twisting your arm. You have processes that work for you, so...why change?

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