Instant Pot Duo Nova 7-in-1 Multi Pressure Cooker review

As its product line has grown and evolved, Instant Brands has retired some of its older models. We help you find your perfect kitchen kit which frees moosoo air fryer you to get on with making wonderful food memories with your family and friends. For basic, everyday cooking, it functions similarly to the others.

The device has a fraction of the customer reviews that the Duo has, so it’s not as clear how the pressure cooker has been performing. Aside from the 7 base cooking modes on the Instant Pots, they are each packed with a range of additional features to improve the user experience and make food even tastier. For example, the Instant Pot Duo Nova and the Duo both have 13 “Smart Touch” customizable programs for bespoke pressure cooking.

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The advantage of using 2 cups is that it takes less time for the Instant Pot to come to pressure. The Saute function allows you to saute food in the Instant Pot before pressure cooking, and to reduce the liquid after pressure cooking. I love this function because I don’t need to get out another pan and that helps keep cleanup to a minimum. The Instant Pot Company (Instant moosoo air fryer Brands) started out with one product – the Instant Pot – and now makes a wide range of kitchen appliances including air fryers, blenders, and toaster ovens. I have read where some people have poured water into their IP without the inner pot being in place. If the heating element inside the pot gets wet there is a chance your pressure cooker is no longer good.

I find this Instant Pot to be very user friendly because of the self sealing aspect. We’re not quite sure why you need the QuickCool Technology when you could simply use the quick release switch. When you use it, you have to place ice on the tray, which seems like another chore. However, being an upgraded version of the Duo, the new Duo Nova has some improvements, allowing it to provide users with better cooking experiences. On the whole, though, the classic LCD of the old Duo is still elegant enough to intuitively indicate the cooking process in its own right. Offering a higher level of convenience, the Nova’s intuitive status indicator also keeps you informed at every step of the cooking process.

The Duo Nova is more expensive than the Duo across all the different pot sizes. This increase in cost is thanks to the device’s additional features. This might not sound like a big thing, but sealing rings are essential to the operation of an Instant Pot, and they need replacing fairly regularly.

First up, slow cooked chili, the sauté function comes in handy here, allowing you to brown your meat and soften onions in the Instant Pot instead of having to use a separate pan or stove top. Despite the pot not having a non-stick coating there was no sticking during the sauté stage. We slow cooked our beef chili for six hours on the ‘more’ setting and the result was a delicious meaty chili with soft beef. The Instant Pot beeps to alert you that cooking has finished and the temperature of the chili at the end of cooking was 176 F/ 80 C. The chili wasn’t thickened to our liking but by switching back to saute it was easy to reduce it to the perfect consistency. During slow cooking the handles and sides all stayed cool, the lid reached 113 F/ 45 C which isn’t too warm to touch.

It keeps you informed as to what is going on inside of your IP every step of the way. This helps ensure that you will never forget to set the steam valve to sealing again. There have been so many times I wondered why my Instant Pot wasn’t sealing. If you want to be able to sous vide in your Instant Pot, the Evo Duo Plus is a better choice than the Duo SV as it’s easier to use. The 7-in-1 Duo Nova is an update of the standard, popular Duo model. With an MSRP of just $60 for the 6-quart model, it’s one of the most affordable models offered by Instant Pot.