How to use the Instant Pot Pro Crisp pressure cooker + air fryer 

What a great compliment - thanks!

I agree!!

Glad it was helpful - have fun!

Glad we could help!

Thanks - have fun!

So glad it was helpful. Have fun!

Thanks Cerisa - so nice to hear it was helpful!

Thanks!!

Thanks!

Correct - the ceramic pot is not compatible with an air fryer.

Sounds like you're off to a great start. Thanks!

Thanks! Currently, no electric pressure cooker has been approved by the USDA for canning. You can however do hot water bath canning. www.friedalovesbread.com/2017/09/safe-steam-canning-with-your-instant.html

No, if steam is leaking for the edges, then your silicone gasket is not in place properly.

Maybe write them down on a sticky note until you've gotten in the habit of using the favorite buttons :)

If you have room in your kitchen for a separate air fryer, then I prefer having them separate. However, if kitchen space isn't an issue, the Pro Crisp is a good option.

If you have room in your kitchen, I prefer having separate appliances. But if you don't like dirtying more than one dish, it is nice to brown cheese right on top of the pasta you cooked in the IP. So it really depends on your style of cooking too.

Yes, we'll add this to our list of videos to film. We don't have an exact science to it, but I'll have to write it down to a recipe. We set the temp to 400F and the time for 15 minutes, but it never takes that full amount of time. The kids like those Dino chicken nuggets, which cook faster (8-10ish minutes?) than the frozen real chicken strips made with real breast meat (closer to 15 minutes-ish). I also usually start with just enough fries alongside the nuggets to give the kids a few so they'll actually eat their dang chicken nuggets and not just fill up on fries, and then while we're eating the "first course" I'll fill up the air fryer with a second batch of fries to add on with the second. (My kids love the arby's curly fries when we splurge, but otherwise we always go for thin cut. Elementary school ruined the thicker crinkle-cut fries for me.) Hope this helps!

Thank you so much for your reply. This is super helpful and can’t wait to see your video. I absolutely love your tips. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

You can use the sous vide function to make yogurt sizzlingpots.com/2020/10/instant-pot-duo-crisp-sous-vide-yogurt-recipe/

You can slow cook in it, but it's also easy to convert most slow cooker meals into faster pressure cooker meals www.pressurecookingtoday.com/how-to-convert-a-recipe-into-a-pressure-cooker-recipe/

No the Pro Crisp does not have the favorite buttons like the Pro.

@@PressureCookingToday Thank's for the answer.

We have a great getting started guide www.pressurecookingtoday.com/getting-started-with-your-new-electric-pressure-cooker-or-instant-pot/ Have fun!

That's correct. You can buy a two pack for about $18 amzn.to/3Kz0fxB (affiliate link)

It depends on what you're sautéing, you don't have to with ground meats but I typically do when sautéing onions, etc.

It is a Stainless-steel (18/8) inner pot with stovetop and oven friendly tri-ply bottom - the flat bottom is really nice.

The crisper insert is nonstick...

Yes, I don't use the preset functions on any of the pressure cookers because they're all a little bit different. Here's on video on cooking white rice ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wkReMWiT5M8.html

@@PressureCookingToday Thank you!

I'm wondering if you mean the air fryer lid to the storage trivet? I'll admit that it took me a lot of tries to get the hang of it, and I still get it wrong sometimes. When it doesn't slide on the regular top-down way, I'll wait until it's completely cool, then turn it so the air fryer element is facing up. On my counter, I'll hold the lid so that the air fryer six-prong is opposite of me, and my storage lid also has the Instant Pot logo facing away from me. (So the lip-less edge is near the six-prong space and the indented left edge lines up almost even with where the lid comes back up in a kind of trapezoid shape.) Then I'll use my index finger to push on the inside corner of the storage lid use my other hand to keep the storage lid pressed down as it goes past the six-prong plug. Then just keep pushing until your finger pushing the inside corner of the storage lid is nearly even with the lid fin. If you think it'd be helpful, I'll try to film a RU-vid short.

The air fryer lid has two little down pieces that stick out from the lid and they fit into place exactly on the lid fins on the outer housing, if that makes sense? And the lid has a little rectangle with six metal pins in it that fit onto the same-shaped rectangle on the housing? Let me know if you still have questions!

I came here to figure out the same right as my husband figured it out lol

Haha I watched the vid and was like “what?! Mine didn’t do that”. But then I laid the lid down and eventually figured it out. I’m betting it’s going to take me some time to learn to do it smoothly

The air fryer basket has some sort of coating on it but the inside trays that you rest food on do not.

Yes, I think so. We've never had problems getting everything off the fryer with a lightly damp cloth

Sounds like you have a Instant Pot Pro, not the Pro Crisp. We talk all about the Pro here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HA-bwJD74yI.html

It seems that way to me too.

It’s so hard to read when I use it outside in the sun

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I never disassemble my lids. Backflusing and scrub brush always suffice unless you cook a lot of oatmeal or starchy pastas, things that spew solids through the vent.

The Pro Crisp does not have a dedicated yogurt setting. If you want to make yogurt, you still can. Our friend Frieda has a great tutorial on the "no Yogurt button" on how to make yogurt in pressure cookers without that setting www.friedalovesbread.com/2017/06/easy-cold-start-yogurt-no-boil-method.html

@@PressureCookingToday thanks

Didn't read Frieda. But i believe there is yogurt method using the sous vide that dates back to the original Duo Crisp model. Not sure whether it's strictly a boul method, or if you can do a sort-of cold start. Google it.

We generally use the pressure cook function for rice ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wkReMWiT5M8.html

Katherine - all of our recipe videos the video actually has food in ithe Instant Pot, and the Pro pressure cooking features work the same as the other models. We haven't shown air frying food because it's so noisy. Are you interested in air frying videos?