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Our Instant Pot makes great rice - I barely use my Zoji anymore. The IP clearly beats it for brown rice both in speed and flavor as the Zoji's seem to be optim
by MegaDeKay 3y ago
Our Instant Pot makes great rice - I barely use my Zoji anymore. The IP clearly beats it for brown rice both in speed and flavor as the Zoji's seem to be optimized for white. My Instant Pot also has a slow cooker function as well that works just fine.
About the only place the Instant Pot falls down a bit as a pressure cooker is when you need the full 15psi, like the Modernist Cuisine recipe that pressure-cooks squash with a bit of baking soda to kick in the Maillard reaction. The recipe works great in a stovetop pressure cooker that hits 15psi but fails in an Instant pot that only hits around 12.5psi or so - you can always taste the baking soda when it is done cooking. The pressure difference might also impact making stock but I haven't tried a side by side (though the Instant Pot is non-venting so I'd expect it's stock to at least have superiour clarity).
If I could only pick one out of the four, it would be the IP. No question.
- AlanYx 3y agoJust curious, can you adjust the cook time upwards by 10% or so to overcome the pressure difference?
- MegaDeKay 3y agoFor the pressure cooked squash with baking soda? Tried that and it didn't work. There is some magic that happens at the higher temperatures associated with the higher pressure.
- Marsymars 3y agoProbably depends which rice cooker you have. My Zojirushi (highest-end non-pressure model when I got it a few years ago) clearly outclasses my IP for any kind of rice, though is much slower. I used to have a Cuckoo pressure rice cooker that made the best rice, fast, but it eventually started leaking even after replacing the seals, and professional repair would have been prohibitively expensive in Canada