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Meat (Poultry, Beef, Pork and Lamb)

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By Instant Pot Staff, June 28, 2009

There are a few things to aware of when cooking meat.

  • Raw meat is perishable food, which should not be left at room temperature for more than 2 hours (or 1 hour if room temperature is above 32C/180F).  When use delayed cooking, do not set delayed cooking more than 1 ~ 2 hours.
  • Do not try to thicken the sauce before cooking.  Corn starch, flour or arrow-root may deposit to the bottom of the inner pot and be burnt to block heat dissipation. This could cause the cooker overheating.
  • You may want to brown the meat to seal the natural juice before starting pressure cooking.

Please note that the cooking time is pressure keeping time on Instant Pot or other electric pressure cooker operating at 10.2 – 11.6 psi or 70-80 kPa. Cooking times are approximate. Please use them as a guideline only.

Pressure Cooking Timetable for Meat (Chicken, Duck, Turkey, Beef, Pork and Lamb)

Meat Cooking Time
(in Minutes)
Beef, stew meat 15 – 20
Beef, meat ball 10 -15
Beef, dressed 20 – 25
Beef, pot roast, steak, rump, round, chuck, blade or brisket, large 35 – 40
Beef, pot roast, steak, rump, round, chuck, blade or brisket, small chunks 25 – 30
Beef, ribs 25 – 30
Beef, shanks 25 – 30
Beef, oxtail 40 – 50
Chicken, breasts 8 – 10
Chicken, whole 20 – 25
Chicken, cut up with bones 10 – 15
Chicken, drumsticks, legs or thighs 10 – 15
Cornish Hen, whole 10 – 15
Duck, cut up with bones 10 – 12
Duck, whole 25 – 30
Ham slice 9 – 12
Ham picnic shoulder 25 – 30
Lamb, cubes, 10 -15
Lamb, stew meat 10 -15
Lamb, leg 35 – 45
Pheasant 20 – 25
Pork, loin roast 55 – 60
Pork, butt roast 45 – 50
Pork, ribs 20 – 25
Turkey, breast, boneless 15 – 20
Turkey, breast, whole, with bones 25 – 30
Turkey, drumsticks (leg) 15 – 20
Veal, chops 5 – 8
Veal, roast 35 – 45
Quail, whole 8 – 10

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Cooking Time

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By Instant Pot Staff, June 28, 2009

As with conventional cooking, cooking with Instant Pot programmable cooker is full of personal choices, creativity, a lot of science and experimentation. No two people would have exactly the same tastes, preferences of tenderness and texture of food. The cooking time chart provided in this recipe booklet is for reference purpose. The user is encouraged to experiment and find your own time setting for the best result to the user’s own liking.

There are other factors that may affect the cooking time. Different cuts of meat and different types of rice, for example, may require different cooking time to yield the same tenderness or texture.

The following pressure cooking timetables provide a general guideline on the length of pressure cooking time for various food.

When cooking frozen food, there is no need to defrost the food in the microwave first.  However frozen food will prolong the pre-heating time and cooking time by a few minutes depending on the amount of food.

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