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Re: Insta Pots
« Reply #15 on: November 01, 2019, 08:04:49 AM »

I bought my wife an 8 qt Ninja Foodi for her birthday in July.  She was skeptical at first and loves it now.  It's a pressure cooker, air fryer, crisper, slow cooker and dehydrator all in one.  The crisper is great for reheating fried fish or chicken.  I made the shredded chicken tacos I posted in the recipe section in about 25 minutes start to finish with the pressure cooker instead of 4 hours in the slow cooker.  I set the timer for 16 minutes and 18 would've been better.  The crisper is great for frozen chicken tenders too.  Need to try the dehydrator.  The last jerky I  made I got side tracked and left it in the GMG DB too long.  Didn't need to be any drier.
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Re: Insta Pots
« Reply #16 on: November 02, 2019, 09:39:39 AM »

Our Daughter is going to let us try hers. Not sure the brand etc. but pretty sure its 6 quart. What should we try first? We have no idea where to start.
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Re: Insta Pots
« Reply #17 on: November 02, 2019, 10:06:32 AM »

We have an 8 qt instant pot, and here are some of my (worthless) impressions.

It makes great rice. Easy peel hard boiled eggs every time, as Osborne said. It makes great mashed potatoes -- you can mash them right in the pot and they stay hot. Will make Thanksgiving potatoes in there. Artichokes are awesome--steaming keeps more flavor in them than boiling. You can throw in a chicken carcass and water and make stock quickly.

A lot of the time it doesn't really suit my cooking style as I'm a "taste and adjust" kind of cooker and the pressure setting precludes that kind of thing (we don't need no stinkin' recipes). My neighbors pressure pre-cook their ribs and finish on their Trager but i don't like them to be fall-apart soft like that. I made Cajun red beans (red beans and rice sans rice), and tried to only partially pressure cook so I could adjust the spice and then finish, but after adding flavors the beans overcooked and are kinda mushy. I'll eat them anyway.

I'd rather saute in a frying type pan. The stainless gets sticky (I'm spoiled by non-stick pans) but if there's steam after the saute it seems to soften the brown stuff on the bottom and it's not too hard to clean out.

Instant Pot gets lots more use than my air fryer--haven't really found a use for the fryer that we just rave about. But everything has limitations.

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Re: Insta Pots
« Reply #18 on: November 02, 2019, 10:22:29 AM »

When the potato harvest happens here next spring, I'm going to try some chips in the air fryer.  There's a lot of them grown about 40 miles West of us that are specifically used for tater chips.
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« Reply #19 on: November 02, 2019, 03:45:51 PM »

Our Daughter is going to let us try hers. Not sure the brand etc. but pretty sure its 6 quart. What should we try first? We have no idea where to start.

If you like pozole, here's a recipe we make all the time. It's fast and easy. Canned hominy is fine, but if you have the time to make it from dried corn and CAL, it can't be beat.

• 1 dried pasilla chile (chile negro), or ancho
• 4 cups chicken broth
• 1 cup Salsa Verde
• 2 pounds pork shoulder, trimmed and cut into 1/2 - 1 inch cubes 
• 1/4 large onion, diced
• 1 bay leaf
• 2 teaspoons dried Mexican oregano
• 1 tablespoon ground cumin
• 1 (4.25-ounce) can diced green chiles
• 2 (15-ounce) cans hominy

Directions:
   1. Sear the pork in a pan with oil or fat
   2. Soak dried chile in 1 cup boiling water for 20-30 minutes or until softened; drain well. 
   3. Remove stem from chile and place in food processor with 1 cup of chicken broth. 
   4. Puree until smooth. 
   5. Pour pureed chile mixture and all remaining ingredients, less 2 cups of the broth, into pressure cooker and cook on high pressure for 16 minutes, release pressure. Add remaining broth and simmer for 15-30 minutes more.
   6. Remove bay leaf before serving. 
   7. Spoon soup into bowls and serve with warm tortillas and top with a combination of any of: shredded lettuce or cabbage, sliced radishes, onions, cotija, sour cream, lime, avocado and fresh cilantro.
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Re: Insta Pots
« Reply #20 on: November 02, 2019, 04:38:38 PM »

if you have the time to make it from dried corn and CAL, it can't be beat.

Your recipe sounds delicious. I'm going to give it a try. I have several pounds of dried Posole, do you think that should I cook it in advance or will just the pressure cooker do the job?
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Re: Insta Pots
« Reply #21 on: November 02, 2019, 05:00:03 PM »

Our Daughter is going to let us try hers. Not sure the brand etc. but pretty sure its 6 quart. What should we try first? We have no idea where to start.


what do you like to eat?
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Re: Insta Pots
« Reply #22 on: November 02, 2019, 06:53:43 PM »

How dumb is this? Starting with hard boiled eggs.
Going to keep goofing around until tomorrow, pictures either way.
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Re: Insta Pots
« Reply #23 on: November 02, 2019, 08:31:10 PM »

6 will more than likely give you green yolks. I usually do jumbo or xl eggs, 3 to 4 minutes release pressure and into cold water to stop cooking.
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Re: Insta Pots
« Reply #24 on: November 03, 2019, 12:42:11 AM »

>I'm going to give it a try. I have several pounds of dried Posole, do you think
>that should I cook it in advance or will just the pressure cooker do the job?.


Do you know if that has already been nixtamalized?  It looks like it has - I don't see any skins on the kernals.  And usually when it's labelled pozole it has been nixtamilized.

I would cook it first to get it rehydrated and softened before adding the rest of the ingredients. There are recipes for doing that in the IP as well. You might want to undercook it a bit, so it finishes when you cook it with the rest of the ingredients. Hope that makes sense.
I usually treat it myself with CAL or lye, so it is always fully hydrated by the time I'm adding it to the IP.
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Re: Insta Pots
« Reply #25 on: November 03, 2019, 12:46:57 AM »

I did 6-6-6 yesterday with some large eggs and they got just a faint hint of green tinge. My son makes a lot of egg salad and deviled eggs and usually overcooks the boiled eggs. He was impressed with how fast the IP was, how easy they peeled, and that there was absolutely no sulphur smell.
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Re: Insta Pots
« Reply #26 on: November 03, 2019, 04:18:44 AM »

6 will more than likely give you green yolks. I usually do jumbo or xl eggs, 3 to 4 minutes release pressure and into cold water to stop cooking.
You are spot on, indeed they were. Otherwise perfect.
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Re: Insta Pots
« Reply #27 on: November 03, 2019, 10:21:48 AM »

Calcium hydroxide. It is used to remove the hulls from corn to make Hominy.
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Re: Insta Pots
« Reply #28 on: November 03, 2019, 10:27:58 AM »

Going to try baked potatoes for dinner. You know how recipes read, hopefully they will be good.
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Re: Insta Pots
« Reply #29 on: November 03, 2019, 11:42:09 AM »

Going to try baked potatoes for dinner. You know how recipes read, hopefully they will be good.

My brother said it takes about 45 minutes in his.  I need to try some too.
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