farmquilter

Am making a note about the saute mode to cook in a 'hot' pot, thank you for the suggestion.

lswan

I love my 8 qt for lots of reasons. I highly recommend going to pressurecookrecipes.com with Amy and Jacky for the best recipes and how tos. They explain and show everything well. Never had a bad recipe with them. I love sauteing for flavor and cooking in the same pot. I love the quality of the stainless steel liner and how well it heats evenly. I love not smelling it cooking all day like a slow cooker, although you can use it as a slow cooker. I recommend gettting the mesh basket and I put rotissiere chicken bones and leftovers in the basket and make bone broth- then just lift out the basket and toss the bones and veggies- so simple.

nativetexan

I haven't looked at Instant pots but may. have you heard of soup pots? my friend in England got one and loves it. not sure what it even looks like but i love soups.

osewme

One thing you have to be careful of with the instant pot when cooking soups is the thickness of the soup. We tried making a modified potato soup in ours recently & it was too thick & the "burn" alert kept coming on so we just turned it off & ate it like it was. We had already cooked every thing before we tried to put it through the soup mode but DH wanted to try the soup mode anyway. Seemed like unnecessary time used up to me but I went along with him & it was too think for the instant pot. Guess most soups have to be really, really thin. Lessons learned!

rjwilder

I have one and I love it, it does take some time to come up to temp and start steaming. I use it mostly for pot roast, pork butt and chicken. Squash is so easy to make in it, wash it and throw it in whole. Take it out, let it cool to touch and then cut it and seed it.

AnneR

I bought the ninga foodie adds the air fryer to the function.Love it ! and use it almost everyday.

QuiltnLady1

I have the Mealthy multicooker instead of the instapot. I use it at least twice a week since I like to sauté and slow cook in the same pot so I don't dirty dishes. I love it -- I even make some of the same items in the pot that I used to cook on the stove top since I found it contains the mess better. I did buy a glass lid so I don't wrestle with the pressure cooker lid.