A pressure cooker is a vital cog in our lineup of kitchen tools, taking care of tasks from simmering stock to cooking meals, all in a short amount of time. On the other hand, we do love a slow cooker that can roast up a tender, flavorful meal over a few hours. But why be forced to decide between two different cookers when you get them both in one, plus a whole lot of other useful cooking options?
That’s what the Instant Pot Pro 10-in-1 pressure cooker provides. And at its current 41% discount for Black Friday week on Amazon, you essentially get the power of two cookers for the price of one. The Instant Pot Pro deserves a deeper dive into all its functions (and there’s a lot of them), so let’s highlight some of the pot’s best and most convenient features.
Instant Pot Pro 10-in-1 Pressure Cooker, $99.99 (41% off)
Not only can the Instant Pot Pro pressure cook and slow cook, but it can also sterilize and warm up food, cook it sous vide style, sauté it and steam it. It even functions as a yogurt maker and cake baker. That’s a whole lot of options for a single cooker — and, if nothing else, owning this all-in-one appliance will save you a whole lot of space in your kitchen cabinet.
Even better, the Instant Pot Pro has 28 pre-programmed settings to handle everything from bread to beef, soup and cheesecake. It also comes with five programmable settings for your own homemade recipes as well as a timer to alert you when to attend to your pot. This feature is useful for pressure cooking recipes in which you need to open the pot a few minutes after steam release.
And when it comes to pressure cooking, the Instant Pro lives up to its name. It creates tasty dishes without a mess, thanks to a diffusing cover that reduces noise when the pot releases steam. This cover is just one of several safety features the pot offers, including overheating protection and a safe-locking lid.
The 6-quart interior pot is the perfect size for creating family meals or large servings of soups, stews and rice, and it also comes with its own silicone-coated handles (not always a given for this kind of cooker). The interior pot can be used as a regular pot on your stove, which is a nice bonus. And speaking of bonuses, the free Instant Pot mobile app comes with hundreds of recipes custom-made for the cooker.
Online chefs call the Instant Pot Pro a “a pressure cooker game-changer worth checking out,” and Amazon users familiar to Instant Pot’s products rave about it as an impressive upgrade on its previous cookers. The highest praise we can give the Instant Pot Pro is that we’re nowhere close to running out of dishes we can create with it, and we have yet to find a single fault with it in terms of functionality and performance.
