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I have a few questions about instant pots, because people love them, but I just can't figure out why I'd want to use one. Maybe someone reading this can help!
So, ok, instant pots can cook beans quicker. But I have no idea how you decide how long to put the beans in for! And every time I've tried I've ended up with crunchy beans, so I have to restart the whole instant pot process and basically cook the beans twice, which ends up not being that much quicker than just doing them in a pot on the stove. How do you get the time right the first time so you don't have to cook the beans twice? Do you just way overestimate the time since beans can't really get overcooked?
Second, I recently tried to make some rice in the instant pot, using the usual ratio of rice to water that I normally would. It was terrible! Just wet and mushy and awful. What is the correct grain to water ratio for an instant pot? Not just rice, but like, say I wanted to make barley, or any other grain. In a rice cooker you want to do 3 to 1 water to barley. How do you adjust water to grain ratios for an instant pot?
And third, this picture has me confused. Why would anyone ever cook pasta in an instant pot? Isn't that going to be way slower than on the stove? Because the instant pot has to pressurize and then de-pressurize? What am I missing?
Basically, someone who likes instant pots, please instant-pot-pill me. People swear by these things, but in my mind they're entirely useless to downright worse than other cooking methods. What is it about instant pots that makes them good, because I literally do not understand.
Thanks!
For making beans, it’s not the time savings, but the mental energy reduction. Dump beans, dump water, spices? Sure. Then turn on, and come back to eat beans whenever. No worrying about the stove boiling over, no hot pan, no burner occupied when you need to cook other shit. Just dump and go.
Otherwise I agree with you. I pretty much use my IP for beans exclusively. Chickpeas for hummus- every other week. Canned beans aren’t expensive, but the amount of beans I’m eating adds up.
Ah ok, that makes some sense. I really enjoy the process of cooking beans, I like having a pot simmering on the stove for hours, so I'm probably not about to switch to instant pot for beans. The whole set it and go thing is pretty cool in some contexts I'm sure. I use a crock pot sometimes for similar reasons.