In our popular Winter Electric Pressure Cooker Recipe Contest, we realized how much fun it was to interact with our users. Most importantly, the submitted recipes substantially enhance everybody’s cooking experience. In the spirit of sharing, we start this Spring Recipe Contest and will award two Instant Pot IP-LUX60 to the winners.
To help everybody visualizing the cooking result of the recipe, please attach pictures of the dish.
The rules of the contest.
The recipes must be for electric pressure cooker, published on publicly accessible websites. If you don’t have a blog or a place to publish, we can put them on InstantPot.com recipe section.
Two prizes of Instant Pot IP-LUX60 will be awarded. Free shipping to continental US (excluding Hawaii & Alaska) and Canada.
The participant needs to give the right to publish one of their recipes on InstantPot.com.
The winning entries must be original and will be judged by
the details of description,
the practicality, and
the creativity
The winners will be chosen by Instant Pot staff on June 30, 2012.
There were 43 submissions with 50+ recipes for the contest. Wow! The user base of electric pressure cooker is surprising strong and enthusiastic!
Thank you all for participating. It’s joyful interacting with you.
Meanwhile, it’s very difficult to choose the winners. We had debats and come up with the list based on our criteria set out on the contest terms, i.e. details of description, practicality and creativity. A little confession to make. Our staff are apparently leaning toward recipes with pictures attached. Pictures are one key part of the description and they make the recipe enticing.
Kellie F.: “NOT Julia Child’s Beef Bourguignon“. The recipe reflects the value and advantages of electric pressure cookers. A complicated dish with complex tastes can be made within 45 minutes.
Maomao Mom: “Sous Vide Duck Breast“. This is the most creative use of Instant Pot. It brings us to a modernist’s kitchen. Besides this one, her other recipes are very creative and full of imaginations. Have a look at her other recipes http://maomaomom.com/recipes-in-english/
Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Winter contest. We’ll contact you in email for shipping detail. To all participants, by continuing sharing, we will all end up as winners.
At Instant Pot Company, we also learned something beyond recipes.
Teresa G. said: “This is like a great cookbook!”
Indeed, we’d love to make InstantPot.com a great cookbook useful to all users. We shall continue encouraging sharing of recipes. The contest must go on. Every season, we’ll award 2 free Instant Pot to two authors of recipes submitted during the period. Please keep your recipes coming.
Sautéing is a method of cooking food with a small amount of oil or fat at relatively high heat. Food that is sautéed is browned while preserving its texture, moisture and flavor. A typical use of sautéing is to brown the meat before pressure cooking.
The new Instant Pot IP-LUX60 is equipped with an advanced sautéing/browning function key. 3 levels of temperature can be chosen with the “Adjust” key for best results.
“Normal”: ~160°C (320°F) for regular browning,
“More”: ~170°C (338°F) for darker browning, and
“Less”: ~105°C (221°F) for light browning.
The “Sauté” function can also be used to thicken the sauce after pressure cooking, by adding starch or simply evaporating liquid. In fact, it can be used for anything related with a sauce pan, e.g warming a canned soup, reheating porridge, etc.
During sautéing, the lid needs to be opened at all time to avoid pressure building up. If the lid is closed, the display will show a flashing “Lid”.
The procedure of using “Sauté”.
Press the “Sauté” function key.
Select a temperature with the “Adjust” key for “Normal”, “More” or “Less”.
When Instant Pot reaches the given working temperature, it displays “Hot” and you can start sautéing/browning meat.
One full “Sauté” session will run for 30 minutes. You can cancel it at any time by pressing the “Cancel/Keep Warm” key and continue with a pressure cooking function.
A brief video demo of Instant Pot IP-LUX60 for browning (sautéing) in action.
Owning to its convenience, dependability and kitchen friendliness, programmable electric pressure cookers are catching on the life style of North Americans in recent years. However, relevant published recipes are hard to find. Thanks to the suggestion from Charles T, we are going to hold a recipe contest. Winners will receive a free Instant Pot IP-LUX60. If all the users can share their recipe creations, this will be beneficial to everybody.
The rules of the contest.
The recipes must be for electric pressure cooker, published on publicly accessible websites. If you don’t have a blog or a place to publish, we can put them on InstantPot.com recipe section.
Three prizes of Instant Pot IP-LUX60 will be awarded. Free shipping to continental US (excluding Hawaii & Alaska) and Canada.
The participant needs to give the right to publish one of their recipes on InstantPot.com.
The winning entries must be original and will be judged by
the details of description,
the practicality, and
the creativity
The winners will be chosen by Instant Pot staff on March 30, 2012.
The hardware design of Instant Pot has matured for many years. Millions of electric pressure cookers of the same design are in use worldwide. However, our design team have been working on improvement to safety and performance for the last 6 months. I’d like to mention two most notable hardware enhancements.
Safety First
InstantPot new power connector design
The original power cable connector has a flat surface, see image on right. Liquid could drip from the lid or water collector along the cooker housing wall into the connector, which could become a power short-circuit hazard. Although none of such incident happened, our design team added a shield to redirect water away from the connector. This shield protect the power connector from any spilling water. See the new design in the picture on right.
Better Steam Release
InstantPot new steam release with silicone rubber cone, see the red circle.
The original steam release has a metal cone inside to seal over the steam release pipe on the lid. Metal on metal doesn’t always create a tight seal. There were reports of steam constantly leaking from the steam release. Although the defect rate is very low, at about 0.6%, our design team believed that they can resolve the problem once for all. The solution is to use a silicone rubber cone in the steam release. The silicone rubber cone creates a tight seal over the steam release pipe. This design was shipped with the last container load of Instant Pot IP-CSG60 and we haven’t had any report of leaky steam release.
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In our popular Winter Electric Pressure Cooker Recipe Contest, we realized how much fun it was to interact with our users. Most importantly, the submitted recipes substantially enhance everybody’s cooking experience. In the spirit of sharing, we start this Spring Recipe Contest and will award two Instant Pot IP-LUX60 to the winners.
When Instant Pot reaches the given working temperature, it displays “Hot” and you can start sautéing/browning meat.
