Ann_Tagonist
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I use a 12" cast iron skillet. It will last forever.
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When microwaving frozen dinners for one, you don't actually need any pots or pans, but you do have to follow the directions carefully.
Huh. Didn't know that. Thanks for this!
I don't have an instant pot. I might be the only one around here who prefers to put on an apron, pour a glass of wine, turn the music up and spend the night cooking. Even if that means I'll be eating at 8pm.
I prefer low and slow. Take that any way you want.
I'm not a fan of the texture of boiled meat, unless it's soup. That's what crockpots do, they boil the meat, and an insta-pot just does it faster.
One neat thing about insta-pots, I've heard that certain models are able to pressure-can foods. I have a huge, cumbersome All American pressure cooker, for canning, and I've never filled it to capacity.
Now, the Air Fryer is freaking bad ass. I mostly roast in it. I roasted a beef tenderloin for the first time in my air fryer the other day... it was better than any beef tenderloin I have ever cooked. I highly recommend them. I bought a Phillips brand.
I'm not a fan of the texture of boiled meat, unless it's soup. That's what crockpots do, they boil the meat, and an insta-pot just does it faster.
One neat thing about insta-pots, I've heard that certain models are able to pressure-can foods. I have a huge, cumbersome All American pressure cooker, for canning, and I've never filled it to capacity.
Now, the Air Fryer is freaking bad ass. I mostly roast in it. I roasted a beef tenderloin for the first time in my air fryer the other day... it was better than any beef tenderloin I have ever cooked. I highly recommend them. I bought a Phillips brand.
Title says it all.
You can cook frozen meat in under an hour.
Not into it. I would like to try an air fryer though.
I have both the Instant Pot and the Phillips Air Fryer.
Instant Pot-
Last thing- Beef Stew pressure cooked. We can't tell the difference between it and the slow cooker version. I use red wine as the liquid in this recipe, so that may be the X factor. In general I would agree that a slow cooker develops better flavor/ pressure cooking needs more seasoning.
I also use it instead of my rice cooker. You know how a microwave saves time on small amounts of food, but is less efficient with large ones? Well, the Instant Pot is the opposite vs. a rice cooker. The bigger the batch, the more time it saves.
Mostly I use it as a soup machine. It saves hours of standing and stirring. My knees and back appreciate this. I recommend it for soup enthusiasts.
Air Fryer-
I haven't used this a lot. I think it would be better for single people. I've made egg plant fries, sweet potato chips, and crisped some Canadian bacon. Grilled a sandwich once. All of it was good. But with good food, you tend to want bigger basketfuls of it. So I do it 5 times and then ask myself if I'd have been further ahead with the conventional oven. Not my favorite thing to clean. I haven't figured out it's best use.
The air fryer is an oven. I was so pissed. That thing was a waste of money. It bakes. It don't fry shit.
But it makes things crispy, no?