Instant Pot DUO Plus 3 Qt 9-in-1 Multi- Use Programmable Outer Lid Pressure Cooker, Slow Cooker, Rice Cooker, Yogurt Maker, Egg Cooker, Saute, Steamer, Warmer, and Sterilizer - Stainless Steel

I bought the 8 qt Instant Pot Pressure Cooker about month ago. I planned to buy Slow Cooker, but I didn’t find such a big size. Now I am so glad I bought Pressure Cooker because it has a Slow Cooker function as well. It's amazing gadget - one of the best I have ever had at my kitchen. I have 6 (sometime 7) in my family, so, I use it every two days. I already bought the second inner pot to ease my life. I have a problem with my back. But since the time I got the Instant Pot, I haven’t had troubles with my back whilw cooking as I don’t need to stand at my regular pots for a long time. Once you have prepared all your ingredients and put it in the pot, you can forget it while it does everything for you. My parents still can't believe how fast I am cooking now. I have tried almost all functions (except for Yogurt, Eggs and Cake). Clean up is easy. I like it is stainless steel and not non-stick surface. I would recommend having 2 inner pots (for soup and main dish) to save more time yet. Also, I bought a steam basket. In my opinion it worth every penny you invested in.

Read tons of reviews and tutorials, and countless times on the instruction manual and my unit simply failed. Pressure built up to a point - with 750ml of water and 45mins pre-heating/pressuring and after 2 mins 'cook' time, unit was set to vent. Valve lowered and proceeded to open, only less than approx 50ml of water left. Something's broken somewhere and this can be catastrophic if actual cooking had taken place. Checked all seals/o-rings seems ok..might have a hairline crack somewhere.Please exercise caution! Safety first.

For a long time, I wasn't a believer. I mean, I'm all for electronic gadgets in the kitchen. If I want to cook something for hours until its delicious and tender, I've got a traditional slow cooker. If I want to feel fancy when I'm preparing perfectly-cooked meats, I've got my Anova sous vide, and a wireless meat thermometer for the grill. But friends and family were always like, "Oh but you gotta get an Instant Pot!" But no, I didn't _have_ to get an Instant Pot.Eventually, though, there was a sale, and I bought one. Now, I didn't really have any meaningful concept of the differences between the sizes and models. This 8 quart Duo Plus came up as a daily deal thing, and I bought it. It was a good price. And you know, it can make like 2 gallons of yogurt or porridge or something, so...great...whatever.I'll be the first to admit that I didn't count on the sheer size of the thing. At the time, it was just my wife and I and our two-year-old daughter. When I unboxed this 8-quart monstrosity, I experienced a moment of trepidation, a fear of ridicule from my wife, who would point out that we don't need a really really ridiculously huge pressure cooker for just us. But I moved on from that anxiety, and I set about putting this thing to work.The first time each of us used it, we felt what I'm sure every other pressure cooker rookie feels at first—the crippling fear that you're about to die in a horrific high-pressure home explosion, and that your family will always be embarrassed to explain that they were related to one of _those_ statistics. But, as I'm sure most pressure cooker owners do, we survived.And it didn't take long before we realized (my wife especially, since she does a lot of the cooking) how fantastic this giant culinary autoclave really is. Cook an entire dinner of roast chicken with red beans & rice in one go? Done. Steam a whole mess 'o veggies when some friends show up with their gaggle of kids for dinner? Easy. Meatballs. Tamales. Artichokes. Corn on the cob. All quickly and (perhaps most significantly) very simple. And there's just a single pot to scrub at the end! Then just throw it back in the pantry until next time.Last night I think I reached my true peak of giant Instant Pot appreciation. I cooked two racks of BBQ pork back ribs. I thought about just taking the meat to my dad's house and letting him do them in the smoker. But that would have taken like 10 hours! I could have tried the sous vide, but that would required me to cut up the ribs into ziploc-sized portions, to come up with a way to cook that much meat together in a bigger cooler than I usually use, and to then clean up the mess and cook for at least a few hours to get a good texture. And who has that kind of time when there's football to be watched and naps to be taken? Want to know how long I spent preparing this meal in the Instant Pot? We wanted to eat at 6pm. I boldly began my process at 5:00.- Five minutes unwrapping and rubbing the meat and stuffing it all into my countertop sauna. I'll leave the visualization to you.- Twenty minutes as the Instant Pot got up to cooking pressure.- 25 minutes cooking + 2 minutes decompressing (and filling the house with delicious porky aroma)- Five minutes painting on some sauce and letting everything sizzle on the grill.Seriously. Delicious, perfectly cooked barbecue ribs—enough to feed at least eight people—ready in about an hour.So yeah. I'm a fan. And even though it's comically large when we're just cooking for ourselves, I'm glad I got the 8 qt monster after all. I haven't even explored all of the fancy other options and space-age things it can do. But I will. If only because I can. Thanks, Instant Pot! <insert smile with tooth sparkle and "ding" sound>

Any regular rice-cooker is better, the saute function is trash. The cooked rice is like porridge alwaysOne thing it doing well is only soup and pressure cooking.Of course, there is thousands of positive feedback.Based on my amazon experience, positive feedback are not truth proof of quality.I will keep that to save time to cook soup only

Have been thrilled with our Instant Pot Duo Plus 80 kitchen appliance. We heard can be used for many quick and Delicious recipes. Well it does deliver and will not disappoint! We will be using this instant-pot weekly and our 1st beef roast was fantastic. I found it easy to setup program and mostly simple to clean. It's got great build quality and the 8 quart is awesome size for a family of 4. Will recommend and includes a quick start recipe book and food reference guide for cooking times. Want home cooked dinner in 20 minutes.. this is your ticket.