The week before Christmas, I was on a culinary roll. I’d made delicious garlic button ribs in hoisin sauce, chicken crusted with spiced potato starch and delicious moist shredded chicken thighs for enchiladas, but the IP wasn’t functioning the way I’d expected. I used the liner pot to fry the chicken – without spatters. That made me a happy camper because I hate kitchen messes. By the second week of Instant Pot ownership, though, I had to concede that all was not well in Pothead-Land. The thing had been touted as quiet and virtually odorless. Well, initially it was. Now, though, I was hearing a lot of hissing, not from the pressure value or release spout, where you’d expect, but from around the rim…

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