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The smart cooking appliance Instant Pot is designed with the objective to make cooking more enjoyable and less laborious. At Instant Pot Company, we plan to release a new design every 12~18 month. We are constantly seeking new ideas that could make Instant Pot more convenient and useful to the life style of North Americans.
If you have any suggestion and request, please comment on this page. When your new features are eventually realized, we’ll send you a free product.
Get rid of the rubber seal. Use something more reliable like large metal threads, or some kind of clamp. Those rubber seals wear out, or fail to seat correctly, and the pot is then useless. I used to use my pot reliably, and lately it just never seals correctly, and it just sits there and beeps. Very annoying.
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Instant Pot Staff Reply:
May 13th, 2013 at 11:55 am
Hi Rick,
Due to the fact that the inner pot shifts up and down inside the cooker when pressure increases and decreases, the sealing ring is an integral part of the design. We cannot use metal threads or something fixing the inner pot to the lid.
The sealing ring is a proven design and works very reliably. If you have an issue with your Instant Pot, please get in touch with our support team: support@instantpot.com. We’ll try out best to resolve it for you.
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Rich Weber Reply:
May 13th, 2013 at 1:14 pm
Clearly it would be a significant redesign. The entire pot and lid would insert into the heating assembly and the lid would no longer lock into it as it does now. There would be no need. The electronics would remain the same, obviously. I suppose that would defeat the purpose. It would then simply be a kind of cooktop/pot combo. However, I disagree that it’s a proven design. Our device has had problems off and on since we got it. We mostly considered it user error, but the problem has gotten progressively worse, which kind of rules out a user error. Visibly the gasket looks ok but it just doesn’t seal at all any more. We’ve noticed moisture contributes to the problem, as well as lid positioning, etc. Something does need to be reworked a tad with regards to the lid/gasket/pot if it’s not this idea, then something else. We’ve contacted support. We’ll see what they say.
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Instant Pot Staff Reply:
May 13th, 2013 at 1:44 pm
Hi Rich,
Thanks for you feedback. We’ll take it to our design team to for their consideration.
My instant Pot is the best kitchen appliance ever! I just discovered it a month ago as an healthy easy way to whip up meals for plant based lifestyles! I probably have referred a dozen ppl to the amazon store! Now I wish I bought a bigger model. Especially for steaming… you can only make a couple of servings at a time. 8 qt minimum would be ok. Also, a steaming basket is a must! An additional pot with handles and lid for fridge! My 11 y/o daughter even loves it! She made homemade applesauce with a friend over the weekend!
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2 things that I’d like to see in future iterations of the Instant Pot:
1 – Instead of using a timer, an actual clock that can be used to tell when cooking should be done would be great. I like to have breakfast/dinner ready at a certain time so this would eliminate counting and math errors on my part.
2 – Add an option to turn the sound on/off or change the sound settings. I know some like the loud beeps, but I’d like to be able to either eliminate the sound all together (to keep from waking up other members of the household) or reduce it in sound level or number of beeps.
Other than that, I LOVE the Instant Pot! Probably one of the best purchases I have ever made.
Thank you!
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I love my Instant Pot….Where does one find the glass lid, and if it came with a reset button, it would be nice.
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Instant Pot Staff Reply:
March 10th, 2013 at 8:55 pm
Hi Lois,
The “Keep-warm/Cancel” button resets all existing program.
You can find the glass lid on our store or Amazon: http://instantpot.com/store/product.php?productid=13&cat=0&page=&featured=Y
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need a bake/cake feature
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Instant Pot Staff Reply:
March 8th, 2013 at 7:56 am
We had the bake/cake feature before. Due to the sealed cooking environment, it’s critical to get the cake mix right. The result of cakes were inconsistent in our tests. Failure rate was over 3/4.
Until we have a dependable program, Instant Pot won’t have a bake/cake function.
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1. Auto venting
2. Table serving pot – can be served right after cooking, no extra dish to clean
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I would like to see a ‘braiser’. There are stove top ones but no electric ones. It would be so very convenient and I could Cook larger pieces of meat …..I often feed many people.
Please consider this. A braiser is a flatter, but much wider pot.
I would like to see a larger pot as well…..however, if braiser style was available, I would not need a larger pot. I would like to be able to make cheesecake in a larger than 6-7inch pan.
I stack all my food without a special stacking tool……I use what I can find, one on top of the other.
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Teresa Graham Reply:
March 3rd, 2013 at 9:38 am
Please consider a braising style pot.
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Suggest to have stackable steam trays with height adjustable rack, so can cook rire or soup and steam dishes at the same time. Would be great to have slow cooker ffeature.
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I am wondering when the Instant Pot with a lower pressure will be available, as I want to cook vegies in it.
krealynb
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Instant Pot Staff Reply:
February 19th, 2013 at 8:50 am
Hi Krealyn,
We plan to launch an Instant Pot with dual pressure settings (high and Low) in August.
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I want to suggest a feature for the timer: when I adjust the timer, I have to count the hours, for example, at 9:00 the night before I set the timer for soup to start cooking at 7:00 in the morning, and I have to set the delayed start for 10 hours. If you can add a build-in clock so that I can set the actual time, for example, I set it for 7:00 am, it will make it much more simple. Thanks.
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Instant Pot Staff Reply:
February 15th, 2013 at 3:43 pm
We’ll take this into account for our future models. Thank you.
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I would love to have a ceramic coated (PFOA & PTFE FREE) cooking pot.
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Siu Reply:
February 13th, 2013 at 8:41 pm
I second a clay/ceramic pot for some Chinese recipes.
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Hi,
I love my Instant Pot. I would like to be able to adjust pressure in the manual mode from low to medium to high. A trivet and steamer basket for the inside would alaso be nice.
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I have had my Instant Pot only a couple weeks and I LOVE it! Everything has turned out really well. I bought this to try to stop using the microwave, and I think it would be wonderful to have a smaller sized version (2 quart or so) that I could use to make sides at the same time. This cooks so quickly that I am usually waiting on the sides to finish up on the stove. (Or the main dish – whichever I am not using the Instant Pot to cook!) My only other request would be a cookbook – it’s quite a learning curve if you’ve never used a pressure cooker before!
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Helen Reply:
October 8th, 2012 at 2:20 am
I agree, Tiffany…a cookbook would be great! My first time at this, and took forever for me to find that I have to cook everything separately (like beans and rice). Plus didn’t realize at first that there’s a pressure keeping time and a cooking time. Smaller size, steamer baskets, and additional pots to purchase would all be great as well.
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Hi InstantPot,
I’ve had my InstantPot for just a month or so — and, I LOVE IT !!
(although, I’m still trying to figure out how to adjust the time… — probably user error…)
Anyway, here are my suggestions:
The InstantPot would be even better:
(1) if it came with a FITTED SILICONE LID for storing the pot in the fridge.
(2) I could purchase an EXTRA POT with SILICONE LID.
(3) if it came with a SILICONE STEAMER BASKET with a HANDLE.
(4) if it came with a SILICONE BOWL with a HANDLE for heating leftovers without submerging in the steaming water. (I prefer to use my InstantPot, rather than the unhealthy microwave, especially when the food comes out so much better.)
Or, I suppose you could sell these as additional accessories.
THANK YOU,
Susan
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need to make a steamer tray or basket
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Instant Pot Staff Reply:
August 12th, 2012 at 9:46 am
Hi Scott,
Thanks for your suggestion.
Yes, we are working on a stackable tray and basket to make the best use of the space in the inner pot.
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Hi,
I think that would be very useful if Instant Pot products are with dual voltage.This will be great for many people from Europe who like your product but can not use is now.
And will be awesome gift!
Cheers!
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Instant Pot Staff Reply:
February 11th, 2012 at 6:04 pm
Thanks Temenuga. We have many inquiries from Europe and Australia. Unfortunately we cannot supply the product yet. We are working on this.
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Laura @ hip pressure cooking Reply:
June 11th, 2012 at 5:57 am
Temenuga, you can use Instantpot in Europe as-is, with a voltage converter. This is not just a plug adapter but a heavy electrical box that you plug into the wall, and then plug the InstantPot to this box. Make sure that the voltage convertor can convert up to 1000W (Instantpot’s operating wattage) – since they make different “strength” converters.
Ciao,
L
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