The Instant Pot Pressure Cooker Cookbook: 101 Incredible Recipes for Busy Families!

This has quickly become my favorite recipe book. I have it on soft copy so I can use my tablet in my kitchen. I got my Instant Pot for Christmas and have never used a pressure cooker other than canning. When I started looking through this, I was amazed by the great looking recipes. I have tried many any the recipes are spot on with spices for my family. Cooking times seem to be spot on too. Disclaimer: I received this item for free or at a discount for my honest unbiased opinion.

Having just purchased an Insta-Pot, I thought it might be nice to have a cookbook to go along with it. I chose this one and now I regret it. The recipes are pretty good, if a tad basic (which is what I was looking for). Too many cookbooks had weird food combos that I knew my meat-and-potatoes hubby wouldn't eat. This one has simple fare that can be tweaked to our tastes. The problem is the format. The font is small and blurry, and it will not enlarge on my Kindle HDX. What you see is what you get... period. No font changes, zooming, etc. Ugh, it is a pain to read at best, and a deal-breaker for me. I will be purchasing a different cookbook for my appliance and relegating this one to the "oh well, I learned a lesson" pile.

This book goes into a lot of detain on how to use the Instant Pot with charts also so you can quickly look up how much time you need on say, frozen veggies for example. It also has recipes for every function of the pot, not only the pressure cooker but the slow cooker, the rice setting and steam. This is nice for a beginner as you learn about your pot. Most of the ingredients are what you are probably used to, although there were some I won't use such as the veal. The recipes are also in larger print so easier to see when using. The one thing I can think of that would really make is better is a spiral or lay flat binding.

Recipe choices are a personal thing, depending on what each of us want or need. That said--personally I find this recipe book great!!! Down to earth, delicious recipes. Direction for each recipe is very clear and easy to follow. Perhaps more for those of us needing easy and quick and familiar. My thanks to Virginia Hathaway. Needless to say, I love my new Insta Pot!!!

First let me say that I don't actually own an Instant Pot yet ... I'm anxiously awaiting its arrival in the mail. But, I thought it would be a good idea to pick up a couple of cookbooks and get sort of a leg up on this new-to-me method and decide what I'd like to try first. I selected this book because it said Instant Pot in the title. This book has numerous errors in just the first chapter, I didn't get very far before getting disgusted. Here's some examples: Blueberry Croissant Pudding: has you put the croissants and blueberries in a heat safe bowl. Then you mix up the egg/milk mixture and pour it over the croissants and let that all sit for 20 minutes. Then instruction #5 says to cook on hig pressure for 20 minutes. Ummmm ... do you just dump all the stuff out of the heat safe bowl into the pressure cooker? Do I need to add any water? Breakfast Hash: instruction #5 says to bring the pot to high pressure and then allow it to slow release. Wonderful! How do I cook it if you just want me to turn it on and then off? It usually takes at least a couple of minutes to cook something, but no time is given. Breakfast Sandwiches: one of the ingredients is "drop of olive oil." The instructions say to lightly grease the bottom of 2 ramekins. OK, what size? 2-4-6-8-10 ounce? Don't ask me, I use custard cups, not ramekins. And I'm still trying to figure out what the heck to do with that drop of olive oil. Cinnamon Raisin Brerad Pudding with Caramel Pecan Sauce: it calls for 1.2 tsp ground cinnamon ... uh-huh, sure ... and then 1/4 cup corn syrup, but is it light or dark? Golden Dumplings: 0.25 cup(s) Milk, there's also 7 Tbsp. Butter and 4 Tbsp. Butter. Then the instructions say to cut the butter into the flour ... good, which one 7 or 4? And #6 says to add the water and lemon juice .... HOLD IT! What lemon juice? The ingredients only call for 2 lemons, but it never says what to do with them. If it needs lemon juice then it should have said Juice of 2 lemons. It was actually this recipe that was my first clue to the fact that these are not the author's recipes. Huevos Rancheros: again with those ramekins, no size given. Plain Yogurt: calls for 1 qt. milk and 4-6 tsp yogurt or yogurt starter. It then has you evenly divide the milk into pint jars (hint: there are 2 pints in a quart). Then it says to stir int he yogurt or starter ... is that 4-6 tsp in each jar? Potato & Bacon Casserole: ingredients call for xooBD; cup onion and 8 oz. bacon. Yep, you read that right, xooBD; cup ... there's quite a few of these measurements in places. But who buys bacon in ounces? Why not just say 1/2 lb. bacon? Sausage & Egg Breakfast Casserole: again with the heat safe bowl and then you just cook it on high for 12 minutes. And again, no water. Stewed Fruit: xooBE; cup packed brown sugar ... well at least it's not xooBD; cup, that's a relief; and 2 lemon slices ... no thickness or peeled/unpeeled, nada. Beef and Broccoli: the instructions start ... Procedure: 7 Season the roast with salt and pepper on all sides. 8 Brown the meat in the Instant Pot on saute mode. Maybe I'm a little OCD, but it sure seems like there should be instructions 1-6 in there, but I looked everywhere and nothing. Trust me, the list goes on and on and on. Like I said, I'm pretty confident that these are not the author's recipes. As a matter of fact, I think I've seen most of them on YouTube and other websites while researching prior to purchasing the Instant Pot. I definitely regret purchasing this book. Yes, the recipes sound delicious up front, even if I don't know what xooBE; cup means, but look for them elsewhere, they're out there. I'm going to try and get a refund, and if that's not possible, then it's the delete key. I'm an absolute newbie at this and I need a well-written cookbook with clear ingredients and clear instructions. I'm not a newbie when it comes to cooking, but I still appreciate a well-written recipe.

pour l'instant mon appréciation porte sur le support, je réserve mon avis sur le contenu des recettes,que je n'ai pas encore testé seule la couverture est en couleur le livre broché est un ensemble de photocopies en noir et blanc qui ont été assemblées les photos des plats sont en noir et blanc et de mauvaise qualité, il faut avoir de l'imagination pour voir réellement ce que cela représente le livre numérique aurait été amplement suffisant, le seul avantage d'une version broché est de ne pas a avoir a imprimer les recettes soi même et de pourvoir les annoter/traduire directement sur le livre sans aucun remord si vous attendez un beau livre de cuisine, passez votre chemin

Some good recipes - although some of it looks like photocopies but a good book!

This book is great for people who are new to the instant pot. It has recipes for most of the functions so that you get to use all the functions of the cooker and so far, I have not tried them all they but have not tried one that was not good.

habe mir den Instant Pot gekauft und passende Rezepte gebraucht - dieses Buch passt und die Rezepte sind sehr lecker und easy da alles im Pot einfach nur schnell und easy geht. Als berufstätige Mutter habe ich nicht allzuviel Zeit und der Instant Pot war für mich die Rettung.

Extremely poor quality paper, all pictures in black and white, very poor image quality. Timings wrong with recipes. This is a cut and paste job from other peoples recipes. DO NOT BUY