This season can be a much busier time for many people, and sometimes, cooking is not as high a priority.
I understand; moving closer to the holidays, between school and work events and parties, family gatherings, decorations and holiday shopping, people have a lot on their plates, and when they walk through the front door, you may realize you forgot to cook anything or have no leftovers and now you have to figure out what to do.
Let me give you a piece of advice; if you can do it, budget to buy an Instant Pot and let that help you out a little bit.
What's an Instant Pot? They are the newest phenomenon sweeping through people's kitchens. If you've used a crock pot, an Instant Pot essentially does the same thing, but so much more. The beauty of using an Instant Pot over a crock pot is that Instant Pot are designed with additional cooking settings for multiple cooking usages.
Crock pots are primarily for slow cooking, like soups, stews and roasts, breaking down tough cuts of meat into tender cuts of meat. But crock pots only have two or three cooking settings for temperatures, which makes it tough to use for other uses. In addition, there is no way for steam and heat to escape from a crock pot, which is why they are so popular for slow cooking; they trap the heat to keep cooking the food.
Instant Pots, though, allow heat and steam to escape once cooking is completed, so it's not continually heating and cooking. It can also control the temperature based upon what you are cooking. So you can cook a variety of things; more than soups and stews, but steam vegetables, make breakfast, boil eggs, cook desserts, sides dishes, cook rice, saute garlic and onions...the possibilities are endless. I've even made a whole meal in an Instant Pot in under an hour; rice, chicken and green beans.
And one of the other great benefits of an Instant Pot is an easy to clean process; because you only need the one pot that's already included in the Instant Pot. How much easier can that be?
We about the love of the Instant Pot, and you need to go get one instantly!
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