Jeff I forgot to mention, there is a saute setting on the instant pot. With the cover off you can hit that and brown anything you want, then add liquids/ingredients, pop the top on and set for your pressure cycle. Extremely easy to make just about anything that way and it comes out well cooked and quite flavorful.
What timex said. Any moist-heat based cooking, braising, stewing, rice making, stock making, simmering, sauce making, etc. You can even steam in them.
Something that I saw somewhere⌠You know those can openers that open the can from the side instead of the top? So that the lid doesnât fall into the can?
You can use any hand can opener to do that. I just did it tonight. Color me pleasantly surprised.
I do as well. Best peeler ever. Iâm also partial to the OXO salad spinner, the OXO mixing bowls and OXO meat tenderizer. Overall I love -most- of their designs, you can tell they actually design for making the work easier.
Iâm not a fan of a few things though. The measuring cups tend to hold on to oils through the wash sometimes, I replaced them with stainless and love those so much more. And the can opener broke within the first month.
So how do people clean these things without losing layers of skin each time? Every time we have shredded cheese, I know this monster is in the sink waiting for my blood again.
I have one of those peelers as well. Itâs a go-to everyday when I make my son dinner.
AlsoâŚI met a woman who works in testing at OXO recently. It was one of those awkward social moments where I suddenly got all excited and started asking dumb questions and everybody else in the room was all, âHey. We were talking about the boyfriendâs job. Whatâs wrong with you?â
Like the time I met the woman who has a job collecting and storing seeds that are native to California and I couldnât resist shifting the conversation to her.
But if you go with the grain, it doesnât dislodge the bits of cheese that are stuck in there. You go against to get them out, and the thing eats your knuckles.
Wait⌠Youâre not supposed to do this? So like, youâre all interested in what one person does, get all excited, ask questions and everyone else doesnât like it??
Iâm not being sarcastic here, I am processing. Youâre saying that not everyone else shares my enthusiasm for the same things and youâre supposed to actively keep conversation as some sort of game where each person has equal time and approval?
My microwave died over the weekend. Apparently the internal light â but not cooking â was causing a surge of some kind, and kept tripping the breaker until the third time killed the microwave outright. Nothing else on the same circuit was running at the time. Well, my Echo was, but I doubt that counts.
Anyway, now I find myself researching microwaves for the first time in many years. From what I can tell, thereâs really nothing cool and interesting about microwaves these days. Even the microwaves that have convection oven features are, according to a friend, not really worth it.