Instant Pot Duo Nova 7-in-1 Smart Cooker, 5.7L - Slow Cooker, Rice Cooker, Sauté Pan, Yoghurt Maker, Steamer and Food Warmer

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Cons: This one only comes in one size (6-quart) and it lacks many of the features you’ll find on more expensive Instant Pots, like air-frying, broiling, and bread-proofing. Instant Pot Duo Nova is just as fast at cooking delicious meals like the classic Instant Pot Duo and can make almost any type of meal for a regular family. But it’s also excellent for more advanced cooking projects that involve tougher cuts of meat like baby back ribs or other proteins that usually require a long cook time. Never place anything on the inside of the cooker base without the stainless steel inner pot in position.

If you’re a novice to the world of the best Instant Pots, or are looking to feed a crowd, the Instant Pot Duo Nova 7-in-1 Cooker could be your best bet. The main functions available are pressure cook, steam, slow cook, saute and keep warm and it also doubles as a rice cooker and yogurt maker, ensuring the Instant Pot Duo Nova can replace several other kitchen appliances making it versatile and good value for money. If the Duo vs Duo Nova comparison revealed they are not the right fit, but you want the same features but with a slight advantage when it comes to the type of food you can prepare, I recommend the Instant Pot Duo Plus or the Instant Pot Ultra.Food-grade stainless-steel smart design inner pot with tri-ply bottom ensure even cooking, which is perfect for sauteing. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights.

Turn the lid clockwise until the arrow mark on the lid is lined up with the closed lock icon and you hear another chime. The Instant Pot is a fantastic small kitchen appliance for beginners as well as those who want to cook simple meals, like stews and oatmeal.It also has the Keep Warm, pressure cook, and slow cook modules, saute, rice making, steaming, and yogurt maker features. For meatless soups, use the Less mode; for soups with meat, use the Normal mode; for soups that requires longer cook times, such as rich bone broth, use the More mode. So, besides running the Duo Classic vs Duo Nova comparison, I thought it would be best to talk about the other Instant Pot pressure cookers that are usually associated with the Duo and Duo Nova models. My very old pressure cooker used to scare me once it started steaming etc but I did get used to it eventually, bearing in mind I did have it for 40 years, back then they made things to last and they did. One of the design objectives of Instant Pot is not to let out steam and make noise during its operation.

Clear, simple controls: Elegant blue LCD intuitively indicates the cooking process of the multicooker. To remove, using your thumb, push the side of the anti-block shield towards the lid rim and lift up. The appliance is compatible with Alexa, allowing for instructions to be given using a voice command.

For larger families, I recommend the 8qt size but I do not recommend the 3qt as the first pressure cooker purchase as it reaches a lower pressure than the other models which will require a novice to pressure cooking to do recipe adjustments- among other things. The display is completely modernized so the cook can easily tell if the cooker is heating, pressure cooking, keeping warm and if the beeping sounds are on or off.

In other words, the next Instant Pot has the same functionality as the previous ones with a few snazzy additions. In fact, the Instant Vortex Plus 4-quart model usurped the Ninja AF101 as the best budget pick in our best air-fryer testing. The first few times, you may find it difficult to remove the sealing ring but after a few uses, it should stretch out a bit.Functions in 1 - electric pressure cooker, sauté pan, steamer, slow cooker, rice cooker, food warmer, and yogurt maker. Healy and Delicious - adjusts pressure, temperature, time, and heat to cook food up to 70% faster than other methods.