I must confess: My instant Pot has replaced my smoker for Pulled Pork

[smokenoob]

moved all the way up the list to "other", quite a leap!

[fuzzydaddy]

Hey if that's what makes you/your family happy then that's great. For us, we prefer eating the bark from a long cook on the kettle or egg way more than the pulled pork itself. However we have never not eaten every last bit of the pulled pork.

[Bogy]

Yesterday while pulling the pork I had a crowd around me reaching in to grab bark while I was pulling. Missed all their dang fingers!

[fuzzydaddy]

Bogy sounds like you cook a fine pork butt! It's hard to stop them once they start.

[Steve R.]

Ha! I've had to smack a hand or two (of grown-ups) from time to time while trying to get dinner ready to serve.

[Baltassar]

Not an Instant Pot owner, but interested. Read this the other day about Instant Pot Max, apparently forthcoming: https://thewirecutter.com/blog/whats...stant-pot-max/

[JCGrill]

Have one May try this sometime next winter when it's 20 below and I want pulled pork in an hour instead of a day.

[Cheef]

Nom NOM Paleo is also a good resource.

[Steve R.]

Instant Pot is an amazing tool, one of the absolute best cooking gadgets we have in the kitchen. But the late great Lewis Grizzard might have responded with "Damn, brother, I don't believe I'd of told that!"

[Mr. Bones]

I truly do miss Lewis, Brother!

[Mosca]

I make pulled pork in the slow cooker that comes out pretty good. I’ll have to try it in the IP some day.

I caution some of my older brothers and sisters though, beware of the old-dogs-new-tricks phenomenon. After my first couple Instant Pot cooks, it’s just sat on the counter taking up space. It seems that I do what I do, and I cook what I cook. And my imagination doesn’t go beyond that very often; I’m not sitting around thinking, "I wonder if I could make chicken tikka masala in that Instant Pot?" I added a Weber Kettle to my BGE two years ago, and only recently have I started to use it regularly over the BGE, mostly for grilling. So, keep that in mind, be aware of who you are. I don’t miss the hundred or so dollars, but I wouldn’t mind having it back, either.

[Mosca]

Understood. You gotta know yourself. I think it’s great, but I never use it. Same with sous vide. It’s great, and it resides in a drawer.

[jlazar]

We bought a new pressure cooker 2 years ago and have used it once.

[Bogy]

Saw that a friend, much younger than myself, had her instant pot for sale on Facebook yesterday for $35, because she didn't use it. Gone five times by the time I saw it.

[jlazar]

There are a lot of tools that make fantastic food and everyone should use what suits them best. But not all great food is barbecue. When I make Pulled Pork my family wants it barbecued. I go back to Meathead's definiiton: Just what the heck is barbecue, anyway?

There are many legitimate definitions, including verbs, nouns, and adjectives. There is even a legal definition. One definition just will not do the job. When you cut through the haze, ultimately, it is smoke that differentiates barbecue from other types of cooking. The fact is that there are many forms of barbecue around the world and it is the presence of smoke that unifies them all.

[texastweeter]

I'll stick to my pitts, deep fryers, and grills; leave the instypots, nuclear microwaves, and hot tub time machines to you highfalutin folks. To each their own

[Histrix]

I wouldn't say my InstanPot or sous vide have replaced making pulled pork on my grills but they certainly get almost equal time.

When I make a kalua pork butt I use my slow cooker with a PID controller to make sure the temp doesn't exceed the temp I set. I like doing a pork butt sous vide and then finishing with a few hours in my oven or a grill.

I like the somewhat different results each method provides. Variety is the spice of life after all.

[johnec00]

What's difference between an instant pot and a good old pressure cooker? I've had one of the latter for over 50 years, but mostly for canning (jaring?). Never tried any meat in it, but maybe I should.

[Cheef]

I BELIEVE but don't count on it to be true? A pressure canner is different than a pressure cooker. Usually much larger and produes less pressure.

[johnec00]

Cheef - The pressures are identical (0-15psi). A pressure cooker intended primarily for canning is generally larger. Mine is 16 quarts (I think) and is referred to as a pressure canner by the manufacturer. When canning non acidic foods (green beans for example), the full 15 psi is needed. I also have a smaller one for general pressure cooking (who needs 16 quarts of baked beans?)

[jgreen]

Sometimes you need speed, and sometimes you just need a reason to sit out by your smokers.

[Ahumadora]

Couldn't agree more. Spend a day socializing, relaxing drinking a beer with friends while attending your stick burner or....... Get it cooked in an hour using and instapot so you have time to iron the curtains.

[johnec00]

+1 all the way from Canada to Argentina

[EdF]

johnec00 Instant Pot is electric, comes with a lot of pre-programmed settings, and is typically 10lb of pressure. A good stovetop will usually be 15lb of pressure, no programming. I like both. A good book on using a stovetop (that can be adapted for electrics by multiplying times by 1.4) is Lorna Sass's Pressure Perfect. Lots of great recipes and adaptations, as well as a lot of know-how. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
And this site is full of info: https://www.hippressurecooking.com/

[johnec00]

So it's a fixed pressure cooker with a 21st century front end?

[EdF]

Pretty much!

[johnec00]

I'll wait until I can call it on a phone . . . no that won't work, I'd have to buy a "smart" phone. Guess I'l just stick with my 50 year old $20 pressure cooker

[Abom]

johnec00 I have both, but the regular one requires you to stand over it until it reaches pressure, and then fiddle with the heat to get it to stay where you need it. This concept of "turn the flame down to low" doesn't work, it's different for everything you cook in it. OTH, with the IP you set it and walk away. When it's finished, an alarm goes off, and it switches to "keep warm" so you don't have to get back to it right away. As a result, I've used the IP more in the last 6 months than I used my Fagor in the last 10 years.

[EdF]

Consider it a "pellet burner" analog!

[Cheef]

For those of us with a REAL Deviled Egg Jones? It is a miracle machine. 15 minutes, Ice bath, and easiest peeling eggs you will ever find.

[Abom]

Amen to that! I cook up an entire carton of 18 at one time, and peel practically falls off.