YouTube Instant Pot Unboxing
Let me give you an Instant Pot introduction. World meet the Instant Pot, Instant Pot meet the world, or if you’re on my blog, meet a kawaii world.
I’ve been using my Instant Pot for a few weeks now. Since I’m cooking and writing about every recipe from one cookbook, and I’ve learned a lot already. I’ve gone through quite a few of those healthy recipes now, and I’m thoroughly impressed with the Instant Pot product. I can leave the Instant Pot slow cooking delicious food for when I get home, or I can make a fancy couture meal in 6 to 9 minutes. How amazing is that? From fast pork ragu, to lentil chili, to easy butternut squash risotto, this machine is now the most used utensil in my entire kitchen. It already has the scraps, scratches, and love marks to prove it. I’m doing a review of every recipe from the Good Housekeeping Instant Pot Cookbook on my blog.
Since my Instant Pot purchase I’ve also become a huge fan of making my own yogurt. In fact, I now make my own greek yogurt at home every single week. It not only tastes much better than store bought, but I can control the thickness of it too. Even if you only used the Instant Pot as a glorified yogurt maker, I’d still tell you to invest in one. I calculated approximately how much money I spend a year on yogurt here in New York, and it came roughly to $1,395. If that seems like a lot to you, keep in mind I eat yogurt every morning for breakfast, and I also frequently cook with it. I’m paying those steep New York City prices. If I make my own yogurt, the cost comes in at around $350 a year. That’s enough for an exotic plane ticket somewhere for vacation! At least that’s how I plan to view it. Still not convinced?
How do I use my Instant Pot the most?
Obviously the Instant Pot is already a well-known, glorified kitchen instrument that seems to do just about everything. With the Instant Pot model I own, I do make about two nice meals a week, but the reason I love this machine so much is because of all of the small things I do that simply require the push of a button.
Make Rice in the Instant Pot
I make Instant Pot rice about 3 times a week. It’s a rice, water, button push and then a delicious meal. With rice for my energy filling snacks, a quick bolt of energy from natural food is simple to keep around all week.
Make Eggs in the Instant Pot
I frequently make 12 hard boiled eggs at once in the Instant Pot and then just keep them stored in the refrigerator for salads, quick snacks, deviled eggs, and more. This is yet another meal or snack that you can make with one ingredient – eggs, and simply add water and make them all at once. All you have to be is a master button pusher. Ninja skills…
Make Greek Yogurt in the Instant Pot
I make Instant Pot greek yogurt once a week, and while it does require dedication as far as time is concerned, it’s also just milk, a bit of yogurt, and the push of a button. For that reason it’s still something that’s super easy to do every week.
Make Labne in the Instant Pot
That delicious Lebanese topping that goes on everything Mediterranean that you love to eat? Super easy. To make Instant Pot labne you just make the greek yogurt and then strain the heck out of it.
Make Meats in the Instant Pot
I frequently enjoy cooking up a whole chicken, cornish hen, or just different meats in my Instant Pot. Just by adding some water or broth you can decide between pressure cooking your meat in a few minutes or even slow cooking it while you go to work. I like to pressure cook my chicken for a few minutes and then add it to salads throughout the week. I pressure cook or slow cook my chicken and it makes a healthy dinner for me for almost the entire week. One of the best things about cooking with the Instant Pot is that the healthy meals you can make are fast and easy.
Make Vegetables in the Instant Pot
In particular I enjoy steaming kale in the Instant Pot, but you can use the steamer rack to steam any vegetables for a quick and healthy meal. If you prefer, you can also leave the lid off, toss in some cooking oil and cook your veggies in minutes. This is a great option for me because I usually already have my precooked chicken made for salads. Sometimes I feel saladed-out so to speak and instead of arugula or kale, I prefer a side of vegetables.
Instant Pot Review
In short do I recommend buying an Instant Pot? I think it’s pretty obvious that I do. Even in my itty bitty New York kitchen, my Instant Pot takes up roughly half of my entire counter space. Do I care? Not at all. Unless I’m baking bread or making a cake(both of which I do pretty frequently) I hardly ever turn my stove on. I used to bake chicken in the oven a lot, and now I only use my Instant Pot. It’s insanely faster and requires about a 4th of the energy and labor. Of all of the kitchen supplies I’ve ever purchased thus far in my life the Instant Pot is my favorite. Go get one!
Buy the Instant Pot.
Instant Pot Unboxing YouTube Video Transcription
Hi guys. Thanks for watching theLifekawaii. Today I have an instant Pot box that I have from Amazon. I’m going to open it up and show you everything that comes inside.
Here’s the box. Interesting story about this Instant Pot box. My mother purchased one, and she hasn’t used it for several months and I went home for Christmas and she said that I could have it. The reason she hadn’t used it was because it was too confusing. She said was too confusing to use and she is used to her standard crock pot and she was going to give it to me. So since I had not used one before, I took the time to actually read through the entire manual of the one that she had. I was mostly reading it out loud, so she ended up learning how to use it too and before I left, she decided that she was going to keep it after all.
So I did not get that Instant Pot. But my mother is a super super, sweet, nice woman and she ordered one for me off Amazon, this one, so she kept hers and she not only got me my own, but she said she upgraded me. So I guess we’ll find out what upgraded means. But since I live in a tiny little New York apartment, I hope it’s not the size. I think they come in 6 quart, 8 quart.
Instant Pot, okay so here’s the box. Comes in a box like this. I was going to see if it said…looking for the size. Duo Plus 60. Okay so when you first open the box it tells you immediately what everything inside the box is. You can see that. So mine comes with a manual recipe book, a quick reference guide, rice paddle, soup spoon, measuring cup, condensation collector, and also a steam rack. Which is good because I eat a lot of kale. And then of course it has the Instant Pot, and the lid, and the pot on the inside. I kind of assumed you guys just knew that.
Okay this must be all the the things I was just listing. Instant Pot Duo Plus user manual and Instant Pot recipe booklet 4th edition. Ok this must be the quick reference guide. Oh wait a minute. This side is not in my language. Not in any of the three languages I speak, ok here we go English. Oh that’s nice that’s convenient. So yeah I will probably just fold this like so, and then put it on my refrigerator. I’ll give you a little sampling of that. It’s kind of like a fast reminder if you want to throw something together. Here’s the cable. Let’s see how long this cable is. I actually prefer when they’re a little bit shorter just because, of course my New York kitchen is like 7 feet by 3 feet. Well good grief. Okay. Oh good, yeah okay, so it is short. I mean if you like a longer cable you can attach an extension cord of course, but I like that it’s short like this. You can just plug it in and then tuck the cord behind, and it won’t be all over my my 2 foot wide counter space. There she is and that’s everything, boxes empty now.
Here is the Instant Pot. Warning, hot steam from steam release valve can cause burns. Do not place hand, face, or unprotected skin over the steam release valve while cooker is in operation. Ok so this thing. This thing that seems to be the most important part. All right that looks good. Ahh, here’s all the goodies.
So I believe this is the measuring cup and there was a rice paddle. Okay so one of these, soup, this is the soup spoon. This is the rice paddle. And they both have the little open ends so you can hang them on the wall or something. I keep everything in a drawer, so I don’t need to do that, but if that’s important to you. Is this the condensation thing? I guess so. Oh that was on top of the box wasn’t it. Wait there are so many pieces of box. Yes, so this is the condensation collector. I’ll say this they packaged it really safely. Okay here’s the steamer. There we go. Nice. Here’s the inner pot. Yes it says on the inside PC Max 2/3 and 1/2 so you have a little outline for whenever you’re loading this up to cook all of your yummy deliciousness. And then last but not least, we have the actual pot itself. So here’s the inside and here’s the front.
Ok and then I also have in addition to that this, which I bought myself because I was so excited. My mom could never not tell me when she’s gotten me gift. She does it every year it doesn’t matter what it is, if it’s Thanksgiving or Christmas or my birthday or something that she gets just for fun, she always calls me and she gets kind of quiet she’s like, “I got you something…”
Here we go, important for my blog… The Instant Pot cookbook so I went to Barnes & Noble’s and I went through a whole bunch of instant Pot cookbooks to try to find one that I liked, but also one that was realistic with my New York schedule. Thank you, okay hopefully whoever’s in there is okay. Yeah so I liked this one. The recipes seemed very doable and also affordable. Most of them had a relatively quick cook time. So that is very important for me since I go to work Monday through Friday, always go to the gym, come home, have rehearsals or I’m singing in the recording studio. So I just need something really fast. Not to mention performances on the weekend. So this I’m going to be doing reviews of the recipes in here, and the only ones I won’t be doing, I’m sorry if you’re a fan, are the fishy things. So anything that is a fishy thing that is not shrimp or possibly crab, I will not be doing because that’s just not for me.
And a quick update for those of you who actually do subscribe to the channel, I told you I was working on the Vogue dress, the Vogue dress pattern. So I’ve sewn most of it. Just a real quick update, this is what it’s looking like so far. Right now I need to finish the zipper so I’ve got my zipper pinned in here, but not sewn yet. So I will be posting reviews of the cookbook, and I’ll do them each individually one at a time, and let you know if I had any problems or found I needed to do something different. What they have listed there, I’ll also let you know how I like the Instant Pot in general, the things I like most about it, if I have any complaints about it. I’ve only heard good things about it, so I’m not expecting to dislike like it. I think I’m going to love it. And I will be posting a full review once I finish the dress, which should be I think at the latest by the weekend. So thanks for watching and if you enjoyed this video, and you like anime and cooking reviews, and product reviews and kawaii things as well as shopping online and also in New York; these are all of the things that I cover. So please subscribe and also visit my blog. Thanks for watching!
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