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The key difference is that the Instant Pot is a pressure cooker, which ordinary rice/multi-cookers are not, they just heat the pot to boil water until the tempe
by jpatokal 9y ago
The key difference is that the Instant Pot is a pressure cooker, which ordinary rice/multi-cookers are not, they just heat the pot to boil water until the temperature reaches a cutoff point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_cooker#/media/File:Electric_Rice_Cooker.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_cooker#/media/File:Electr...
- mattmaroon 9y agoElectric pressure cookers were invented in the US in the 1950s. The instant pot is pretty much identical to the one my grandmother had in the 1990s (I think presto).