Day 1 of our 12 days of Christmas was the Roborock 2-in-1 robot vacuum cleaner. Today we’re moving on to my absolute favourite small appliance: the Instant Pot pressure cooker.

There are so many reasons why an Instant Pot is one of the best Christmas gifts. It’s not just a gift for someone who loves to cook or someone who cooks for a crowd: it’s a gift for anyone who cooks, period.

What is an Instant Pot?

Instant Pot for Christmas

Maybe you’ve only just heard of Instant Pot and you’re wondering what its all about. An Instant Pot is a pressure cooker, but it’s not the same as the pressure cookers you put on the stove.

An Instant Pot is a stand-alone device you plug into the wall. You seal the lid on whatever you’re cooking, and when you choose a menu option, pressure builds up inside the appliance and cooks your food. You can also use it as a slow cooker.

Because you use pressure to cook the food, your meal will cook faster and retain more nutrients. The average time for a roast beef is 60 to 90 minutes depending on how you want it to turn out. That’s a huge time saver when you consider it will take 3 or 4 hours in the oven.

What can you make in the Instant Pot?

instant pot hardboiled eggsThis amazing small appliance lets you easily use pressure to cook roasts, stew, soup, rice, hard-boiled eggs, and even yogurt. You can find 7-in-1, 9-in-1, and 10-in-1 models.

The 10-in-1 model even makes cake, and you can sterilize baby bottles or mason jars in it too. I’ve used it for making jam and it makes the sanitizing and sealing process so easy.

It will make the absolute best hard boiled eggs you’ve ever had. They come out perfectly every time, with no grey ring to indicate they’ve been overcooked.

Instant Pot keeps your meal warm too

Instant Pot menuInstant Pots are built with many different safety mechanisms to make them easy to use and safe to cook with. The lid is specially designed to lock in place and can’t be opened once it’s pressurized. Releasing the pressure is as easy as tapping the knob on the top of the lid.

The device will even release the pressure on its own and keep your food warm inside. This comes in handy if you’re out for the day, but you want a hot meal reading and waiting when you get home.

Join the Instant Pot community

instant pot communityOnce you have this appliance in your kitchen, you’ll begin to wonder why you waited to get one. It makes cooking everything so easy, and you can put all of your ingredients in the pot, turn it on, and forget about it until the timer goes off.

After you’ve tried to make a few recipes, you may want to join the Instant Pot community. There are so many great online sites and pages dedicated to recipes for the Instant Pot, and you’ll soon see that anything you can make on the stove or oven is better when you make it with pressure.

You can even layer your meals when you have an Instant Pot, so if you’re having mashed potatoes, vegetables, and a roast, you can add them all to the pot and cook them all at once.

Those are just a few reasons why the Instant Pot is a great gift for Christmas. You can find the Instant Pot on Best Buy right now, and be sure to come back tomorrow for Day 3 of our 12 days of Christmas.

 

 

 

Shelly Wutke
Editor TV & Home Theatre
I'm a Vancouver freelancer and tech enthusiast. When I'm not writing you'll find me on my farm with my alpacas, chickens, and honeybees. Visit my website Survivemag

8 COMMENTS

  1. This looks like it would be really nice for someone who isn’t used to preparing food to do it a little easier.

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