Congrats on your new Instant Pot & Welcome to the club!! Have fun cooking with your Instant Pot! 😊 ►50 Easy Instant Pot Recipes (Beginner Friendly): www.pressurecookrecipes.com/easy-instant-pot-recipes/
Thank you for this video. I have had my instant pot for a year and this will be my first time using it. I was always so scared from someone telling me to do a water test to make sure it's safe from exploding, I just always put it off 😂. I tested it, I'm safe and ready to start cooking! ☺
I'm with you. I gave my new pot away after not using a year. 2 years later now I asked for one for Mother's day and watching this video is sooo much better.
This is so very helpful! I've been terrified of using mine that I got a year ago and have yet to try using. These videos have calmed my anxiety and I am thankful that you're describing everything, not assuming we'll know something. Thank you!
Excellent instructional video. You were friendly, thorough, and accurate while avoiding wordiness. I was an adult educator for 40 years. I know when a training video is well done. Just got my Instant Pot and running the initial test today. Thanks!
Thank you sharing this video - we just got our first Instant Pot (Ultra 80) - it helped clear up some vague 'initial test run' instructions in the User Manual. I appreciate your clear/concise/understandable instructions/comments and actually showing what you are explaining to us. Good stuff!
THANK YOU for this video! I've wanted an instapot for a bit and hubby got me one, yay! I was SO EXCITED until the HUGE box was on the counter. Talk about overwhelmed and very intimidating!!! Your video has made this much easier to understand and helped calm my anxiety to take on the water test. 😂 Thanks again! Love from your newest sub in Connecticut!!❤
Thanks so much. I WAS terrified by my instapot (which came with no instructions but only printed warnings. Your step-by-step encouragement was exactly the rescue mission I needed.
Thank you for the easy instructions on the water test. I found you on RU-vid after looking at other videos. I will check out your other videos too as I am new to using the insta pot Duo.
Best video I've seen on the first run of an instapot. No information on running this first test in the book. Had to delay one day to use my pot so I could watch this video first. You could write a more informative booklet, but what's not to like about the extra money to be made from utube.
Just got my instant pot in a few days ago as a Christmas present from my mom and daughter. I’m going to do the water test, then make rice. Then Asian beef. Woohoo!! Excited!! Thank you for making this video! I’ve only ever used a stovetop pressure cooker and a multi cooker. 🙂
Thank you for this video as an introduction. I've had my pressure cooker for over a year and was afraid to use it because a friend of mine was badly burned after forgetting to release the pressure. Your video of the water test was super helpful. Thank you.
I just got an instant pot for Christmas! My mum gave me the leftover turkey carcass so now I'm going to make a bone broth stew with it ☺️ I've wanted a crockpot for a while but got this instead. Super excited to make delicious meals with this device! I love that mine has a yogurt making function too! Thanks for your video, I'm far more of a visual learner so having an instructional video is so useful.
Hi, I recently bought the Instant pot 8 qt duo with the toggle switch and the pin that drops for the venting. It was delivered last week and I put the inside pot and Stuff in the dishwasher because I wanted to make sure it was good and sanitized and I kid you not, I was doing the pressure cooking water test while I was watching your video! I thought hard boiled eggs would be good to start with after doing the water test, so I'm going to try that next. I've never owned a pressure cooker before, so I feel more comfortable starting off small. There is no steam mode, only pressure cook, and a bunch of other stuff that I will try later. So I figured hitting pressure cook was the one to do the test with.
Happy New Year! We have a 8 qt Duo Evo +. Nice! For times when the 8qt is too big i'd like to buy something smaller. The Instant Pot 3qt is a little too small. By the time you fill it to max for pressure cooking it really doesn't leave much room. Zavor makes a 4qt I might look at but their pots are expensive compared to Instant Pot so who knows I might just bite the bullet and wind up with the 3qt Instant Pot after all. No hurry. Thank you, and please keep the videos coming.
Well done. You have a very calm demeanour which takes the stress out of using it. I had a terrible experience in the early 2000s which made me very nervous. Your video was very calming and detailed. Should I use a wooden spoon or silicone gloves to open the venting? That seems like a good idea, don't you think?
Thank you for sharing these great tips!!! I have an instant pot duo at home, so have been curious about how different the duo evo plus is! Will go for duo evo plus if I need a new one :)
I just bought a used duo60 and did your water test to be sure it worked properly. Everything was great and just as you explained, except for the pressure release at the end. I had to take a phone call when it finished. I heard it beep. It showed LO:OO and went to keep warm. It hit Cancel and went to my phone call, maybe 10 minutes longer. Went back and switched to Venting and only a spitter or two of water droplets came out. I slowly released the lid away from me and not much steam came out. Water is hot though! Is this normal if you don't release pressure when it sounds the beeps? Great video for this new Instant Pot mom lol ... thank you for the great instructions!!
Thank you so much for this video! Was super useful for my first time testing my instant pot!!! I was a little bit scared at first but now I’m not! I’m about to make some chicken tacos :)
originally was given a Lux50 by my daughter about 4-years ago. It died this year (electronics) and I bought a Duo60 to replace it. My brother received one of the new Duo Evo Plus for Christmas. He was asking me questions about it and not making sense out of some of the answers. Now I know why. I'll send him a copy of this.
When I work up the nerve to use mine for the first time, I would like to try some Chicken Wings. Got mine for Xmas and it's the Duo Plus Multi-Use Pres. Cooker!
Funny my instant pot instruction book said to pour in 3 cups of water to do the test. Anyway I liked your video going to follow up to see your recipes too.
I got the. Duo 6 quart.i done the water test, and it scared me so I haven try to used it any more.i not sure how to use all the button and to set it for more cooking. But I watchall your video.so mabe I get the cure up to try again.thank for sharing...
Just what I needed since the pretty looking manual really misses what beginners need -- not a word about the layout of the display eg that you have to hold down the + button for as long as it needs to rack up one digit at a time. Hope I never need to cook for 2 hours! Anyway I ran the water test after watching your video and I have the ingredients for my first cook-up: ratatouille !!! My first wife was French from Nice and so I'm used to enjoying that and later I used to cook it in an old-fashioned pressure cooker on my gas burner stove so I hope this time it turns out OK including sauteing the onions etc slightly before tossing in all the cubed veges and liquids. But not tonight ..... Huw in Florida
I just got my first Instant Pot Duo Plus 8qt Christmas gift. It’s confused me so much, I would like to know how to clean a lid after cooking. Can I clean a lid with water and dry it after that? Thank you for sharing this great information for starting a new IP.
Can you offer solution. My IP burns everything and shuts off. I bought a second bowl (thinking I may have ruined my pit) and it burns too. What am I doing wrong
Hi Cindy, this is Jacky! Does your IP say Burn during the water test? If so, you will want to contact the Instant Pot support team. Here is an article we have written on how to avoid the Burn error. www.pressurecookrecipes.com/instant-pot-burn/ Happy New Year!
Although I did everything as in the manual & this video. But: while the screen was still showing ON there was steam coming out for few seconds. Then it started counting down. Whilst counting down it released steam on and off too. Then it showed END, I had a look at the pin / float valve which was stll popped up (indicates pressure) and it oozed some more steam. Is all this ooze normal?
Well this is a year old video, but thats ok. Im going to the kitchen and do the watter test. Next im going to make pasta for a tuna salid. Just something easy. Next will be a beef roast with red potatoes, carrots, and on yoos.
Thank you for the video but I thought it would be something about purifying water or something like that… People really needed a damn video to know how to cook water? What in the hell is going on with this world?😂😂😂😂😂😂
