re: Official Amazon Prime Day Thread 7/12/16

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Can you cook gumbo in it? That would be awesome.

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I cook seafood gumbo is ours all the time. I cook down my veggies first on saute. I don't always make my own roux though. I just use a name brand mix in a box. Comes out great. We actually like to get two different brands and mix them together.

I don't use the pressure cooking to do it though. I just use the saute option.. I don't like the way gumbo comes out when pressure cooked. The versatility is what is so nice about it. You can even put it on slow cook if you want after high cooking with a boil.

(keep in mind the saute option only stays on for 30 minutes *i think*.. so you may need to hit it again. this is actually nice because it's safe if you forget it's on and it's no biggie to turn back on)

I like that I have two of these though, because we cook our gumbo in one and I pressure cook rice in the other. Remember rice for the instapot only needs the same amount of water as rice.. ex: 2 cups rice 2 cups water

I also cook chicken or turkey spaghetti in it with the saute option.. do my meat cooking first.. then put in my sauce..

If some people for whatever reason didn't have a stove or anything, they could probably make-do with this thing. Have even had success making ribs in it.

It does great making chili, tortilla soups, and beans as well.. Or using the steam rack to cook cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage.. I probably use it most for rice cooking though. Love not having to watch it or keep up with my cooking all the time.

The best thing you can do is research how long certain things take to pressure cook online. Then you can manually cook it according to the times recommended. With the steam rack you can boil eggs on pressure cook.. the manual time recommended is 4 minute to 5 minutes set.

It would be cool if there was a thread dedicated to cooking with it.