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    What made me think to post this was the 'what have you made to eat today' thread that I just posted a pic in. To make a long story short, we ended up with a new Crock Pot brand pressure cooker. It's not a crock pot, but Crock Pot brand, same as an InstaPot, but it's an electric pressure cooker. I'd always liked watching the pressure cooker infomercials and looking at all the good food they cooked. We've had it for several months, but I finally opened the box two or three weeks ago and tried it out.

    I think the first thing I cooked was chili. Turned on the 'brown' option which allowed me to brown up the ground beef and small beef tips I like to put in for texture (along with onions, green peppers, etc), then dumped in the tomato sauce and all the other stuff and cooked it about 45 minutes under pressure to make sure the beef tips got good and tender. It was really good.

    The next thing we tried was a pork butt to make carnitas. Cut the butt up into smaller pieces, browned it, put in spices, etc, and cooked 40-45 minutes. Fall apart tender. Then some chicken breasts and the same thing.

    The great thing about it is that if you like to cook with a crock pot low and slow all day to make things tender, and we do, it shortens that time down to less than an hour in most cases. So you can decide you want one of those kinds of meals and you don't have to put it together in the morning and then cook it 6-8 hours. You put it together and it's done in most cases in less than an hour. Some in 20-30 minutes. So really no more need for the crock pot.

    We've done several big chicken breasts for the third time already. Cook it up, eat what we want, then put the rest in the fridge to make different dishes out of all week and to help me with my low carb eating. You can have these great meals in a short time that used to take all day long in the crock pot.

    I said all that to say this: yes, the pressure cooker has revolutionized the way we cook now.

    First pic is some beef tips and pork chops cooked in the pressure cooker with cauliflower rice as a rice substitute. It's just cauliflower grated up like rice.

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    How do I get this into the Pressure cooker


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    Quote Originally Posted by Cardinal TT View Post
    How do I get this into the Pressure cooker


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    Well, first you have to kill it. FB can help you with that.

    Then you cut it up into little pieces. Fuego can help you with that.

    Then follow the cooking directions in the instruction booklet.

    Snip-snap.

    Supper.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    What made me think to post this was the 'what have you made to eat today' thread that I just posted a pic in. To make a long story short, we ended up with a new Crock Pot brand pressure cooker. It's not a crock pot, but Crock Pot brand, same as an InstaPot, but it's an electric pressure cooker. I'd always liked watching the pressure cooker infomercials and looking at all the good food they cooked. We've had it for several months, but I finally opened the box two or three weeks ago and tried it out.

    I think the first thing I cooked was chili. Turned on the 'brown' option which allowed me to brown up the ground beef and small beef tips I like to put in for texture (along with onions, green peppers, etc), then dumped in the tomato sauce and all the other stuff and cooked it about 45 minutes under pressure to make sure the beef tips got good and tender. It was really good.

    The next thing we tried was a pork butt to make carnitas. Cut the butt up into smaller pieces, browned it, put in spices, etc, and cooked 40-45 minutes. Fall apart tender. Then some chicken breasts and the same thing.

    The great thing about it is that if you like to cook with a crock pot low and slow all day to make things tender, and we do, it shortens that time down to less than an hour in most cases. So you can decide you want one of those kinds of meals and you don't have to put it together in the morning and then cook it 6-8 hours. You put it together and it's done in most cases in less than an hour. Some in 20-30 minutes. So really no more need for the crock pot.

    We've done several big chicken breasts for the third time already. Cook it up, eat what we want, then put the rest in the fridge to make different dishes out of all week and to help me with my low carb eating. You can have these great meals in a short time that used to take all day long in the crock pot.

    I said all that to say this: yes, the pressure cooker has revolutionized the way we cook now.

    First pic is some beef tips and pork chops cooked in the pressure cooker with cauliflower rice as a rice substitute. It's just cauliflower grated up like rice.


    I've used a stove top pressure cooker for years to make beef stew. An hour in a the pot instead of hours of simmering to have fall apart stewing beef. BUT we got it for a wedding gift 42 years ago and I'd love to replace it with one of the new electric models. I know last fall, many of my friends were posting on FB about how wonderful their InstaPots are and how much they love cooking with them. So maybe I'll watch the flyers as Christmas approaches and buy one. Thanks for the inspiration.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post

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    Good job! You need to post more pics of your creations!

    But you did forget the beans in the chili.

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    Quote Originally Posted by krystian View Post
    Good job! You need to post more pics of your creations!

    But you did forget the beans in the chili.
    I KNEW someone would bring that up. :)

    Texas chili for us. No beans. Neither one of us like them in our chili. Just made a fresh batch today.

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    Quote Originally Posted by A.J. View Post

    I've used a stove top pressure cooker for years to make beef stew. An hour in a the pot instead of hours of simmering to have fall apart stewing beef. BUT we got it for a wedding gift 42 years ago and I'd love to replace it with one of the new electric models. I know last fall, many of my friends were posting on FB about how wonderful their InstaPots are and how much they love cooking with them. So maybe I'll watch the flyers as Christmas approaches and buy one. Thanks for the inspiration.
    Just do a little comparing. I'm not sure how ours stacks up to Instapot and the others. It was basically one of the cheaper ones Mrs fuego found to buy my sister for Christmas. She never used it opened it and needed some money so we basically bought it back from her. Sat in the basement for several month. When we got back from vacation I decided to try it.

    I guess the one feature I would miss is 'brown'. I made the chili again today, browned up the beef tips, then put the ground beef and veggies in and cooked the meat up, then just put all the other stuff in and turned the browner off and turned on the pressure part. The 'brown' keeps you from having to use other pots or pans to brown/sear the meat up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    I KNEW someone would bring that up. :)

    Texas chili for us. No beans. Neither one of us like them in our chili. Just made a fresh batch today.
    I don't like beans of any kind, so IF I make chili, it's beans free as well.

    Do you put bacon in your chili? That makes it pretty delicious.

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    Quote Originally Posted by A.J. View Post
    I don't like beans of any kind, so IF I make chili, it's beans free as well.

    Do you put bacon in your chili? That makes it pretty delicious.
    Never tried that. Just put it in there raw and let it cook, or brown up with the meat first?

    I like beans, but not kidney beans. I've had chili with black beans in it a few time, not loaded though, and that was fine. But no beans in the chili for sure.

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