Instant Pot takes advantage of pressure cooking, which cooks flavorful meal, softens the food and retains vitamins/minerals. Thanks to its micro-processor controlled cooking cycles, meals are made in a consistent fashion.
Trapping Flavor in Food
Instant Pot cooks meals in a fully sealed environment. Nutrients and aroma stay in the ingredients instead of being dispersing around the home. The original juice of fish, meat (e.g. chicken), and fruits remains within the food.
Retaining Vitamins and Minerals
When steaming with Instant Pot, you don’t need to put large amount of water. Enough water to keep the pressure cooker filled with steam is sufficient. Because of this, vitamins and minerals are not leached or dissolved away by water. Since steam surrounds the food, foods are not oxidized by air exposure at heat, so asparagus, broccoli, and so on retain their bright green colors and phytochemicals.
Tender & Tasty Meal
Meat and bones can be cooked really tender in Instant Pot. After cooking in Instant Pot, the bones pork ribs are completed separated from the meat and become chewable, allowing calcium and other minerals to be easily absorbed.
Under pressure cooking, whole grain and bean based meals are also softer texture and taste better than cooked in other methods.
Consistent Results
Another important features is that Instant Pot cooks meals with remarkable consistence. During pressure cooking, heat is very evenly, deeply, and quickly distributed. The Instant Pot’s intelligent programming ensures cooking being consistent regardless the volume of water and the amount of food. This is an unmatched advantage with programmable electric pressure cookers.
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Conventional pressure cookers used to have a image of a steaming, spitting monster of a pot, noisily rattling on the kitchen stove. This is no long true with Instant Pot.
During operation, Instant Pot is absolutely quiet. It is fully sealed when pressure builds up in the inner pot. There is no steam escaping from the pot, and hence, no smell in the kitchen or spreading in your home.
Another important benefit is that Instant Pot keeps your kitchen clean. There are no messy spills, splashes or spatters to clean up and no boiled over foods.
Being a multi-cooker, Instant Pot can reduce the number of cooking appliances in your kitchen, saving you money and helping to minimize clutter and keep the kitchen organized.
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Instant Pot has 8 one-key operation buttons for the most common cooking tasks, including:
- Soup,
- Rice,
- Multigrain rice,
- Congee,
- Meat & Stew,
- Beans & Chili,
- Steaming, and
- Slow Cook
These one-button operation keys are carefully designed to achieve consistent cooking results. Of course, if you prefer to set you pressure keeping time for your own recipe, you can do so with the manual setting.
The following features are most notable to the one-button operation keys.
Intelligent Programming
These buttons are programmed intelligently based on thousands of experiments to achieve the best cooking results.
Take the “Rice” button as example. During rice cooking Instant Pot estimates the amount of rice and water by measuring the pre-heating time. The pressure keeping duration is then varied based on this measurement. Detailed considerations are taken during every rice cooking stages of soaking, blanching, steaming and braising. See Pete Vegas’ “Rice 101″ to learn more about the science of cooking rice.
Each function button can further be refined to vary food taste in the range of “rare”, “normal” and “well-done”.
Automatic Cooking
Instant Pot also provide convenience in fully automated cooking process, timing each cooking task and switch to keep-warm after cooking. Unlike conventional pressure cookers, you do not need to have a timer to manually monitor the cooking time.
Planning Meal with Delayed Cooking
Delayed cooking (up to 24 hours) can also be done with Instant Pot, allowing you to plan the meal ahead of time. Most importantly, you don’t have to stand around in the kitchen to watch over the cooker in operation. You are no longer tied to the kitchen to make the meal.
Needless to say, Instant Pot also reduces cooking time by up to 70%. It works wonders when you come home after work and have to get dinner on the table in a hurry.
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Instant Pot is one of greenest kitchen appliances, saving up to 70% electricity in comparable cooking to other appliances, e.g. oven, boiling pot + stove, steamer, etc. It is highly energy efficient thanks to the following features.
- As we know, food cooks rapidly under high temperature. Less cooking time means less energy consumed. Like other pressure cookers, Instant Pot reduces cooking time by up to 70%.
- Secondly, Instant Pot exterior housing is fully insulated. It’s cool to the touch in brief cooking and only lukewarm during long operations. Energy is concentrated on cooking the food. This makes it even more energy efficient than the conventional pressure cookers.
- Thirdly, Instant Pot’s intelligent monitoring system only heats the inner pot to maintain a certain pressure level. In a long duration cooking, heating is off nearly 40% of the cooking time.
- Fourthly, because Instant Pot is fully sealed during cooking, much less water is required for cooking (e.g. about 75% less in steaming). This essentially reduces the energy consumption in making a meal. As another benefit, your kitchen will not be steamy hot during the summer.
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Both conventional and electric pressure cookers operate based on the pressure cooking principles. Two key differences set them apart.
- Programmable electronic control capability in the electric pressure cooker is completely missing in the conventional pressure cookers. It’s the programmable capability that allows the electric pressure cooker to be more convenient and produce the best and consistent cooking results.
- Heat source: Conventional pressure cookers use a separate heat source, e.g. a gas stove or an electric range. Electric pressure cookers come with an integrated heating unit inside. The advantage of an integrated heating element is to create a full feed-back system which controls the entire cooking cycle. This makes electric pressure cooker more convenient (no need to watch over it), pleasant (no loud hissing noise, no steam), safer and more energy efficient.
To determine which one is the right choice, you should look at your intended cooking tasks and the benefits.
Convenience
Instant Pot has 8 one-key operation buttons for the most common cooking tasks. It is a 5-in-1 kitchen appliance. On top of these, delayed cooking allows you to plan the meal ahead of time. There is no need to keep time and set alarm when pressure level is reached.
Fast cooking
There is no doubt that higher pressure cooks faster. Convention pressure cookers work at a range of pressure level, commonly at 15 psi (e.g. Fagor Duo) and also the complete range of 13psi (e.g. T-Fal Sensor 2), 12psi, 11psi, 10psi (e.g. T-Fal and WMF) and even 8psi (e.g. Lagostina Endura). Meanwhile Instant Pot operates between 10.15 and 11.6 psi. With the set-and-forget programmable cooking, the slight difference in cooking becomes irrelevant.
Energy efficiency
When comes to energy efficiency, Instant Pot is an undisputed winner. Instant Pot has a fully insulated housing, minimizing energy being dispersed without cooking the food. Its microprocessors controlled cooking cycles turns off heating automatically when the desired pressure is reached, and switches on heat when the pressure drops. Heating is only on ~60% of time.
Safety
Conventional pressure cooker typically come with two or three safety valves, with the only mechanism of releasing steams to reduce pressure. Instant Pot comes with 9 level safety protection, including safety valves, pressure control, temperature control and fool-proof operation detection. Experiences show that most pressure cooker disasters could usually be attributed to user error. Instant Pot was carefully designed to eliminate and avoid most of the potential problems.
Better cooking result
Most chef would agree that the difference between a 15psi cooker and a 11psi cookers is limited, i.e. 2~3 minutes of cooking time. However there’s a huge difference in the consistence of the cooking result. Thanks to its programmable cooking and micro-processor controlled precision, Instant Pot produces consistent tasty food 100% of time.
With these benefit comparison, it is very clear that Instant Pot is the clear undisputed winner.
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