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By Instant Pot Staff, May 6, 2009

Instant Pot is the most advanced electric pressure cooker available on the market today. Instant Pot is also a multi-function programmable cooker and does the job of five appliances in one, including

• a slow cooker,
• a pressure cooker,
• a rice cooker,
• a steamer, and
• a keep-warm pot.

Instant Pot does each of the above function exceedingly well. You can find detailed comparison in the following articles.

• Why is Instant Pot better than a slow cooker?
• Why is Instant Pot better than a conventional pressure cooker?
• Why is Instant Pot better than a rice cooker?
• Why is Instant Pot better than a steamer?

The benefits of Instant Pot can be summarized in five aspects.

1. Convenience:  8 turn-key function keys for the most common cooking tasks. Delay timer of up to 24 hours,  reducing cooking time by up to 70%. Read more here …
2. Preserving nutrition values with tastes: The Instant Pot smart cooking functions do the best job to preserve nutrition in the food ingredients. Pressure cooking also brings out the best natural taste of the food.   Read more here …
3. Clean & pleasant cooking experience: With multi-function cookers like Instant Pot, the cooking experience becomes so clean and pleasant. The cluttered kitchen space, messy spills, and the suffocating experience in the kitchen become forgettable memory of the past. Read more here …
4. Energy efficiency: saves up to 70% of energy. Find out how it’s done here …
5. Leading safety and dependability: 9 fool-proof safety protections. Read more here …

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By Instant Pot Staff, May 5, 2009

History of Pressure Cooker

Pressure cooking is a method of cooking in a sealed vessel not permitting steam to escape below a preset pressure. Because the boiling point of water increases as the pressure increases, the pressure built up inside the cooker allows the liquid in the cooking pot to rise to a higher temperature before boiling.

Denis Papin (1647 - 1712)

Pressure cooker was invented by Denis Papin, a French physicist, in 1679. However, it only became a house-hold cooking appliance during the World War II, when the people realized how much fuel they can save, due to the much shorter cooking time. Pressure cooking is often used to simulate the effects of long braising or simmering in shorter periods of time.

The Invention of Electric Pressure Cooker

Conventional pressure cookers were made to be used on stove top. A steam regulator, safety valve and pressure-activated interlock mechanism provide protection against the overheating and the danger of explosion. When a preset pressure is reached in the cooker, the steam regulator is pushed up by the built-up pressure to allow the steam to escape. This is the reason why the conventional oven top pressure cookers generate loud and disturbing hissing noise when the pressure is on.

Electric Pressure Cooker is an ingenious invention in the last decade. Historians are still undecided about inventors and the precision time. Arguably, a Chinese scientist, Mr. Yong-Guang Wang, filed the first electric pressure cooker patent on January 9th, 1991 (patent No. ZL91100026.7).  This patent is currently owned by the No. 1 electric pressure cooker manufacturer, Midea.

Electric Pressure Cooker consists of a pressure cooking container (a.k.a. inner pot or cooking pot), the electric heating element, and temperature / pressure sensors. The heating process is  controlled by the built-in micro-processor based on the readings of the pressure and temperature sensors. This whole process forms a so called “closed loop control system” in control engineering terms.  The principle is similar to that of the auto-cruise in most of the cars these days. The user puts all the ingredients in the cooking pot and sets the pressure cooking duration for the type of food to be cooked, the electric pressure cooker does the rest.

Over time, the leading electric pressure cookers learned from the experience and created different cooking profiles, such as simmering, steaming, braising, slow cooking, warming, rice cooking, stew, etc. by using different combination of cooking temperature, pressure and time duration. This leads to a new generation of electric pressure cookers, a.k.a. programmable multi-cookers.

Read about how electric pressure cooker works here.

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By Instant Pot Staff, May 5, 2009

Instant Pot is the latest 3rd Generation Programmable Pressure Cooker designed by Canadians specifically for North American consumers. It speeds up cooking by 2~6 times using up to 70% less energy, and, above all, produces nutritious healthy food in a convenient and consistent fashion.

Instant Pot is a 6-in-1 automatic multi-cooker, capable of completely replacing slow cooker, rice cooker, pressure cooker, sauté pan, steamer and stockpot warmer. Most importantly, Instant Pot cooks meals faster with less energy while preserving more nutrients. Instant Pot is safe, intelligent, convenient and dependable.

Instant Pot is made by the No.1 electric pressure cooker manufacturer with over 10 million units already in household use worldwide. The benefits of Instant Pot can be summarized in five aspects.

1. Convenient:  10 turn-key function keys for the most common cooking tasks. Planning the meal with delayed cooking up to 24 hours,  reducing cooking time by up to 70%. Read about the convenience of electric pressure cooker …
2. Cooking healthy, nutritious and tasty meals: smart programming for delicious healthy food, consistent every time. Read more on making healthy meals with electric pressure cooker …
3. Clean & Pleasant: absolutely quiet, no steam, no smell, no spills, no excessive heat in the kitchen. 6-in-1 capability reduces clutter in the kitchen. Read more about why electric pressure cooker keeps your kitchen clean and pleasant …
4. Energy efficient: saves up to 70% of energy. Find out how electric pressure cooker does it …
5. Absolutely safe and dependable: Instant Pot is UL/ULC certified and has 10 fool-proof safety protections. Read more about electric pressure safety protections …

Instant Pot Electric Pressure Cooker Introduction Video

Instant Pot model IP-LUX60/50 brochures can be found here: English, Chinese.

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