V2 is only available Used: Like New on Amazon for $65 plus S/H. V3 is $79 Prime. Not sure if this is really a great deal, since it will be $72 with shipping versus $79 for newest model and it will be here in 2 days versus whenever with woot.
We go through a lot of hard boiled eggs and I was looking for the best way to cook them so they would be easy to peel. Pressure cooking was the answer. I bought an IP Duo and use it every week to cook 20 hard boiled eggs in ~ 15 minutes. They are very easy to peel when pressure cooked.
I won’t speak to whether or not this is a good deal, but I will add to the must have one praise.
Besides everything that has been mentioned, if you like yogurt then this is a must have. It looks like a pain in the butt from most recipes, but if you search, you can find a few that tell you to just make it right in the pot, and put it containers when you are done. My Friday night routine is now to dump a half gallon of milk straight into my pot, spend the 30 minutes heating and cooling that it takes to get the milk ready, dump a couple tablespoons of last weeks yogurt in as starter, and set it make overnight. Put it in the fridge in the morning, and Saturday afternoon I put it all in little glad containers. Enough for me and my wife to have a couple each day all week.
all I see on amazon is ‘used’ for that model at that price.
Is this the 6 qt?
As others have said, this is the older version. I’ve seen the DUO70 for $70 on Black Friday and this version for around 50. Come on woot. You can do better.
With that said, I love my instant pot. I use it multiple times a week and have had it for years now.
Never mind…I see in post above that it’s a 6 qt
This model does not have the yogurt function. The 7-in-1 DUO60 is the cheapest full size model that has the yogurt function.
Note that this is model does not have a yogurt setting, as some Instant Pot models do (as I found out when I went to try making yogurt as found on an Instant Pot blog). I don’t mind, as I found a great recipe for making yogurt in a slow cooker, and I love the Instant Pot for many other things. I’ve made more cheesecake in the last six months than in the rest of my life. It always comes out well in the IP. Macaroni (in mac and cheese or minestrone) comes out beautifully. I don’t find that the gaskets impart smells from savory food when I cook something non-savory, but I do plan to get spare gaskets. The heat does temporarily make the gaskets soft and loose, so you have to wait for them to cool before using them for something else. The only failure I’ve had was trying to cook a whole chicken that I think was too large for the pot. But everything else has worked great. Boiled eggs, yes. Steel-cut oats, yes (though I think I prefer the texture of oats cooked overnight in the slow cooker). Soups and stews, yes. Sauerbraten, yes. Risotto, oh yes.
I have owned an Instant Pot for a couple of years. Great investment.
This model is good, but recommend you buy the newer models that have the yogurt function (button). If you or anyone in your family eats yogurt, homemade yogurt is GREAT.
what size is this pot.
Doh! Missed that this one didn’t have the yogurt function. That is #1 thing I make. But I make lots of other stuff in mine. Pot roast and Mongolian beef are on my list of suppers to make this week in mine.
As has been mentioned, the rings will absorb smells from the meals. They are about $8 each for the official rings on Amazon, or you can get 3 packs in different colors by other vendors for about $10. I swap them out based on what I’m cooking. Clear for yogurt, Brown for beef and other strong smelling meals, and Orange for beans, broth, veggies.
I’ve had my Instant Pot (the 7-1 version with the Yogurt function) for about a year and a half. I mostly use it to make easy-to-peel hard-cooked eggs. My husband has tried making beans in it, but he prefers his old method using a stove-top pressure cooker. We’ve tried making rice in it, but prefer our dedicated rice cooker. The only other thing I have made in it is chicken breasts to shred for enchiladas – and that worked perfectly.
When I first got it I was shocked and dismayed at the size – so prepare yourself because it is huge!
I always plan on making more things in it, but I have not set aside the time to learn how to use it to its full extent.
I have 3 different Instant Pots. I have this model, the 6 quart Ultra, and the 3 quart Mini. If I had space in my kitchen, I’d be in for one. I love mine and use at least one of them almost every day. The little one is in my office for fresh-cooked lunches, and the other two are at home. I’ve used both at the same time when I have 2 dishes with vastly different cooking times and I’m unable to do pot in pot cooking.
This version is about 5 years old, as that is when I bought my first one. I like the newer versions better, simply because it is easier to make yogurt and I can adjust the pressure setting if I need to.
Don’t think anyone mentioned it, but cheesecake made in the IP is wonderful. Yes, I’m one of the cult-like “pot heads”.
“This is a well made appliance (from Canada)…” Made in China.
Just call me an old grouch, but I see too many of the SAME appliance (with minor cosmetic changes) fom China with a dozen different names.
The big question is the after-sale service. Most importers have no spare parts, no service department. By 'em cheap, sell 'em and hope you don’t have to replace the duds by making the buyer pay the shipping back or even both ways. Any reports on this company?
I have the 7-in-1 and really like it. I bought this one because I thought the only difference was that it didn’t make yogurt. The 7 in 1 has dual pressure which I use frequently. The 6 in 1 does not. The 7 in one has a better handle which goes across the whole lid. I burned myself on this model 6 in 1 because the handle is smaller and just a indentation you grab which pivoted the metal part of the lid into my arm. It was also slower to come to pressure than the 7 in 1. It was not worth the 20 bucks I saved over buying the 7 in 1.
This is one of the best purchases I have ever made. I love how fast it is and how easy to get a meal to the table. One of my favorite meals takes just 5 minutes to cook but you must remember that it will take 20 minutes sometimes for the cooker to reach the proper pressure before it will begin the cooking process. So in reality it takes longer for the meal to be ready than people will tell you. It is still much faster than the conventional in most cases. It used to take me 4 hours of cooking time for pinto beans but now it usually takes about 45 minutes. That time is for reaching pressure and then cooking combined. You must still soak beans for some time though. If you don’t they will be crunchy and who likes that. Instant Pot just makes the best pressure cookers. They think of just about everything. I don’t think I would even consider another brand. I have this exact model and I love it.
WTF woot, I literally just got this delivered yesterday. Why you keep doing that? Third time in 3 months. Time to have my credit card price protection kick in.
Edit: Phew, the one I got was the 7-in-1, and not a bad price (was on sale on Amazon for $79.99 when I got it)