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It is a slow cooker book, not a pressure cooker book. Do not buy this is you want to cook with your Instant Pot
This is a misleading title. It is more like a slow cooker cookbook where they added some times for pressure cooking. The times recommended for the pressure cooker functions are way off, like 5-7 times longer than any experienced pressure cooker chef would use. For example, there are several recipes where they tested a food item like chicken, cooking it for 40+ minutes in a pressure cooker, of course it turned out badly, 3 minutes would have done it. Pressure cookers save people time and money and they want a cookbook that does the same. I feel like they tried to write a cookbook without actually knowing what they are doing. The Instant Pot is the best selling product on Amazon, with amazing reviews and many helpful websites and Facebook pages that offer insights on its proper use. I love the idea of this book and I love ATK, they usually do a very good job but this is something I would personally be ashamed to put the ATK name with. It is very hard for me to write this review as typically ATK is amazing, I am just sad that they wrote a book on a topic they clearly did not understand. I hope they try it again in the future and perhaps they bring in some experienced Instant Pot chef's to help them out.
May 2018 · Books · verified purchase