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★★★★★
Just what I was looking for
I've been really getting into my IP LUX-60 as of late and found this awesome little cookbook to take my understanding and proficiency of it even further. I would highly recommend the Kindle edition: I love the find feature, ability to quickly see bookmarks, highlights, and notes, free up space on the bookshelf, and many things are hyperlinked where you can go to other parts of the cookbook by clicking them (for instance, a sauce in the recipe ingredients list is hyperlinked and clicking it will take you to how to make the sauce in a different section). The author presents recipes in a logical manner, easy to read, with summary sections, section headers, steps 1-X, and helpful tips surrounding certain steps. Reading just the intro of the book you can tell that she is an expert with the Instant Pot. She dispels lots of misconceptions that you might have heard from others based on her empirical evidence to the contrary (like never quick releasing pressure of meats because it will dry it out - apparently this is not true / never cooking oatmeal in the PC - you can, etc.). She provides great info on buying decisions for a second or third cooker as well as accessories one might want to consider. She describes the differences between Instant Pot versions, describes the settings in detail, and goes into discussion on various cooking principles, like with meats. You may need to connect the dots in recipes in some cases (for instance, a beans recipe called for 1 quart of water in the ingredient list, mentioned soaking the beans overnight, but didn't specifically state to use the 1 quart of water for soaking the beans) but for the most part the recipes are straight forward. In addition, the recipes aren't overly complicated like I've seen in other PC cookbooks. She covers staple recipes like making stock or hard boiling an egg, covers meals, sides, desserts, all in logical chapters. I will be referring to this cookbook exclusively for some time.
April 2017 · Kindle Store · verified purchase
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