[floridaorange]

Do you recommend?

[M_Six]

I'd give you ours if you lived nearby. We tried several recipes with it and never found one that was worth doing again. And the word "instant" should not be applied to this device at all. There's nothing instant about it. YMMV

[floridaorange]

[Ohio Enthusiast]

It's an electric pressure cooker. Pressure cooking does some things very well, but most things can be accomplished easier with regular cooking. We have a handful of recipes for it and we use it to cook dried beans for other dishes (which is something that I was never able to do with regular cooking methods). It excels at recipes that are "dump everything in and set pressure for X minutes". Also works great for making dulce-de-leche from condensed milk cans.

Bottom line, it's not an expensive appliance, but it does take quite a bit of room. If you have the space and budget for something you might use a few times a year, go for it. If ours broke I'm not sure we'd get a new one in a hurry.

[floridaorange]

It’s in the top 5 most purchased items on Amazon which sparked my curiosity especially if it makes healthy meal prepping easier.

We have a slow cooker but don’t use it very often at all.

[Ohio Enthusiast]

Originally Posted by floridaorange

We have a slow cooker but don’t use it very often at all.

A slow cooker and an electric pressure cooker overlap a little, but they're not the same and there could be use for both in a kitchen. I'll also throw in sous-vide precision cookers, which I like a lot and use for quite a variety of recipes.

[stbm5]

we have one and use it 4-5 times per year. probably use my slow cooker 2-3x more often. there are a couple recipes we have where its a true one pot solution. but basically its mostly just a pressure cooker. i dont think it has any special utility for food prep. if i were going to cook a lot of meat all at once i think id prefer to use the slow cooker. if you wanted to cook a bunch of potatoes all at once then its good for stuff like that.