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Instant Brands - maker of the Instant Pot - files for bankruptcy (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by gary@lemmy.world to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We bought the smallest version some years back. The idea was to use it to replace our rice cooker with something multi-purpose.

The rice cooking function takes 12 minutes at pressure, and the Mini InstantPot takes 8 minutes to get up to pressure, for a total of 20 minutes. This is the same as a dedicated rice cooker, so it's a wash in that respect. The big difference is that you loose very little water to steam, compare to the rice cooker. So you use about a 1:1 ratio of rice to water. The results are good.

So our InstantPot is guaranteed fairly regular use just from that, and anything else is just a bonus.