We’ve ordered an Instant Pot

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Do you have one? What do you like to make in it?

I used to have a slow cooker, which was great for making stock and mulling wine.

Argh sorry Fifthkey

Sadly rice pudding and risotto are on my most hated foods list, its a shame as I would like to try doing them just out of curiousity.

Mine has had a rest for a couple of days but will be used for proving dough for pizza later then yogurt overnight.

You take that back! Rice pudding is breast milk for grown ups.

I can't even bear the smell or look of it ket alone actually eating it. Traumatised by 1970s school dinners. I've only just got over my aversion to custard from those days. As for dumplings, I was genuinely shocked to find out about 10 years ago that they don't have to be chewy and rubbery.

Mmm, hot rice pudding with cold vanilla ice cream. It must be a decade since I've had that.

One of my fondest childhood memories is my Dad deciding that rice pudding must be easy to make and not realising how much the rice swells up so starting off with far too much dry pudding rice. He had to keep dividing it into different pots and adding more milk. We had enough to feed 15 by the time he was done.

Instant pot now at £111. I'm sure it was £132 this morning.

WeAreSailing would like to announce the long overdue arrival of her new baby!

Right what idiot proof 1st time easy peasy recipe can I do? Feeling a bit scared and cant stop giving it the hairy eyeball

Now at £109 on Amazon. DH has now ordered it for my birthday present after i "subtly" hinted i could use it to prove bread as well as everything else. I love kichen gadgets.

Graph of Amazon price over the last couple of years from camelcamelcamel.com

I'm having my skimmed milk Greek yogurt for breakfast, it's delicious!

Oh it worked for you! I'm so pleased saintaiva

Glad the cold start yoghurt worked for you, too, Barbayagar

Saintava how did you make it?

I've just looked back at my Amazon order and mine was £85.99 when I got it (it was DH's Christmas present to me). It felt even more special because I knew it was a real bargain. But it's been as low as £69.99! That must have felt so good!!

@lougle I wasn't sure it would, but thought I'd give it a go, I used the cold start method too, so just put the milk in the pot, added a couple of teaspoons of 0% Greek yogurt, put it on yogurt setting for 8 hours, chilled it in the fridge for a few hours and then strained it for about 2 and a half hours in a nut milk bag. So impressed, it tastes so much fresher and nicer than shop bought!

Once I've lost the weight I want to lose then I'll be making it with whole milk

I find the price fluctuations a bit baffling and manipulative. Anybody that has paid £132 while it was out of stock will be annoyed, and cancel or send it back and buy again at the lower price.

I found that people tend to just buy another one when they see it cheap! Believe me, having two opens up so many more possibilities for cooking.

Mine was £69.99, Black Friday two years ago, someone posted on here and I bought it on impulse. Certainly won't be getting another though, we only just have enough space for one.

Really loving ours. We had tortilla for lunch made in the IP - various bits of manky veg, eggs and cheese. It was very soft and not at all rubbery. Yesterday I made tomato and lentil soup, then Indonesian peanut chicken, both of which were easy, mess free and delicious.

Curry is simmering away in mine tonight. Yum.

I'm using mine as a slow cooker and making cowboy stew with a gammon joint in, for lunch tomorrow. I've had my instant pot for over a year and a half and have only used it sporadically. So glad I'm now using it more and more

Oooh mine arrives tomorrow! Bit nervous and excited.

Mone has arrived today!😮

What's the difference between a slow cooker and an instant pot?

An instant Pot is multifunctional and is also a Pressure Cooker

I got rid of my separate pressure cooker and slow cooker when I got the instant pot, so it's space saving for me as well