The Best and Worst Way To Use Your Instant Pot | Joe vs. The Test Kitchen
Professional Test Cook Joe Gitter has worked on over 20 cookbooks and performed hundreds of recipe tests. Joe vs. The Test kitchen is an inside look into the mistakes and wins from the recipe testing process, showing the right and wrong ways to cook amazing food. In this episode he breaks down how to properly use a multicooker and makes braised short ribs.
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As home cook we just want to get dinner done, its not a mindful experience for us, it also why we like crock pots. Like Ron from Ronco said set it and forget it.
I'm here because my sister, who loves mushy food and soup, bought me the biggest insta pot available as a gift thinking I would love it. I needed opinions or tip on it. I've used it once.
Here's my tip to you. Mine is the biggest, and presumably expensive, one available in 12/23. It DID NOT COME WITH A STEEL POT. It's Teflon. You could sear a cold sock on a hot rock better than this thing could do ground meat, with or without oil! So after everything I've watched, it appears I have a broth maker.
Get a steel pot!!
Rofl Im Joe the guy who smiled after showing us all how some of us are trying to release steam…. And then disappointed by the mush ingredients because its not a normal pressure cooker on the stove its one thats not so forgiving.
I need to be watching these vids with a bib. The drooling reflex is STRONG!
Great video. Your volume is quieter than most videos I've watched on YouTube. It was almost hard to hear you with non-ear-covering headphones (also not noise cancelling) with moderate background noise. Most YouTube videos would be easier to hear. Don't need it to be blasting, just a tiny bit louder. Just a suggestion for people who are hard of hearing.
I know this is too overkill, BUT, I just do my browning and veggies in my cast iron skillet THEN I put it all in the instant pot because of the dreaded BURN signal.
I would love see more multicooker recipes and uses. Like could you do the pepper roast in it? As the cooker says it can bake.
Another great demo by Joe. I really appreciate that he is constantly providing information, not just describing his actions. He has just upped my Instant Pot cooking ten-fold. Believe it or not, my best use for the IP is hard boiled eggs. Perfectly cooked with shells that come off super easy. Sometimes in just 2 pieces.
One more killer video – Kudos! New Cook is excellent – the Excellent ATK Crew is growing!!
omg! I was literally on the verge of finally buying an Instant Pot after a friend talked me into it. But, the first 5 seconds of this video totally scared me away from the idea! Then you cooked something and made face that it wasn't good. OK, I'll stay with my old crockpot.
How do I know if my Instant Pot is not good like his new one ? I’m so tired of trendy kitchen appliances.
Why is this so hammy? Too jangly for ATK.
Every time I cook onions in the instant pot I a sour/bitter smell emits from them. Sometimes it ruins my dishes. Regardless of cook time. This keeps happening. What can I do?
The Instant Pot requires all the same prep necessary for the dutch oven or the old pressure cooker. I use an 80 year old Presto pressure cooker with a wooden handle to get the same result or better results than that digital communist Chinese made contraption produces. The seals, weight and pressure safety valve are all still sold by Presto. You can buy an old pressure cooker for a few bucks 2nd hand and it will still be working perfectly 100 years after that digital thing is in the landfill.
Love this guy!
Thought instantpot company had collapsed & in administration.
Another excellent video.
Might be a stupid question, but why doesn’t the bag of ice melt when Joe places it on the hot metal plate to aid depressurisation?
Love this man! I still re-watch his video on how to steam hard cooked eggs from 5 or so years ago. More Joe, please
I love making soups in my insta pot.
Oh no now I want to upgrade my old instant pot