Instant Pot Ultra 60 Electric Pressure Cooker, 6Qt 10-in-1, Stainless Steel

Bought 6 quart on recommendations for decarb-ing herb and infusing to oil. 8 quart will work and the little one is too small. Six quart also does about a 2-6 pound roast, three or so just perfect.Do recommend getting an extra set of gaskets and use a dedicated one for each thing you use it for.To decarb and/or infuse into oil: two clean new or fairly new wide mouth pint canning jars with good lids and rings (no rust). Good grade coconut oil, 2 to 4 cups. Jar lifter of some kind. Jar cooling rack. Metal French press.Prepare herb, take out twigs and stems, break up buds. Don’t have to grind but get to small pea sized. Put 15 grams (half ounce) in each jar. Add 1-2 cups oil to each jar. Leave at least an inch of space at the top. Jus barely finger tight the lid and ring. Enough that u I t is closed or just a bit more. Put the wire liner/ lifter piece in pot. Put both jars in. Fill pot to 1/2 line with room or tap temperature water. Blot off top of jar lids. Seal pot. On ‘pressure cook’ set 50 minutes and high. Start pot cycle. Let coast 20 minutes (shorten a little if you want). Depressurize and lift jars to rack. 20-60 minutes or cool enough that you can handle the jars. Open jar and dump into French press. Use spatula to scrape the oil into press. Wipe off and reuse jar or get the amber jars or bottles out. Press the oil and herb and pour into jar. Keep pressing and wait-there’s a lot of drips in there. Return should be at least 7 ounces per cup of oil used. Repeat with other jar.You can use less herb, this gives a nice strong oil that doesn’t need a large dose ( 5 ml or less). Two jars have to be processed at once to prevent floating. Fill second with 3/4 full of water if only doing one jar. To straight decarb herb, add a CLEAN quartz rock (don’t use fancy crystals) smaller than a medium egg or golf ball to add weight to jar so it doesn’t float. Process through cycle, remove jar or jars to cooling rack. Transfer dry decarbed herb to storage. Decarb dry about one ounce per jar.Jars can break. If jar breaks your lose the herb-fine glass shard contamination. With herb going up to $15 a gram it can get expensive to have a jar blow. How to above has worked-it’s basically pressure canning. I’ve lost jars.Can be used to make CBD oil for self use IF one can get legally grown material.Pot also makes great roasts. Self experience for beef is meat setting, high pressure, 15 minutes per pound and depressurize after 5 minutes cooling and remove roast to sit. Let sit 5-10 minutes, slice and serve.Get gasket out of lid as soon as possible and clean, clean vent area inside lid ASAP to keep gunk from building up. (especially with meat)Lovely unit. Easy to use. Easy to clean. Wish cord was about a foot longer or plug cord was at back or left side rather than right side. BEWARE where the exhaust steam vent is pointed. It is a rather long and forceful stream-almost nailed my live spice herb plants in the window with it the first time it was used. Unit gets hot. Do not move unit when full. Inside of metal liner can discolor. ( mine spotted a little in the bottom)

Instant Pot Ultra 6 Qt 10-in-1 Multi- Use Programmable Pressure Cooker,...OMG I cannot tell you how much I love this pot! I use it several times a week and it is just a delight to work with.I make a lot of soups. What can I say - I love soup. Back in the day I used a crock pot for soups and chilis, but even though it made the house smell fabulous for hours, in the end, all of the flavors were diminished some and everything began to taste like everything else. With this machine I really don't have that problem. Food comes out looking and tasting fantastic! No kidding!I'm going to drop a little social commentary on you because I think it bears repeating. In the U.S., we are often told that this country is a "melting pot". My guess is that whoever coined that phrase used a crock pot. Edward James Almos once said, and I agree with him on this as I paraphrase, that this country is not a melting pot where all flavors melt into one big thing, but is rather a salad bowl where all of the ingredients maintain their flavors and come together to create this other thing that is bigger and better than all of them. This pot does that. But if you still think that the crock pot is the way to go, there is a setting for that too. I hope I haven't gone too far afield with that.I bought a different make and model first and I was just so-so about it, which I suppose is why I kept looking. It was when I cooked a butternut squash in it that finally did it for me. That other unit came with a 'non-stick' pot which I didn't want and which didn't work. I could not get the squash off of the pot! The Instant Pot comes with a stainless steel pot which I did want and I am happy to report that the squash I cooked in it, also 'stained' the sides of the pot, but I can scrub the stainless steel without hurting it and I got it off. It didn't actually stain the pot but it did leave a very stubborn residue.Programming is a snap with this pot. There are more options than I will probably ever use (like the crock pot option mentioned above), but the ease of the dial for programming, plus the presets, plus the guides that come with it make it so that there is very little guess work and perfect results in pretty short times. You can have beans from dry to ready to eat in anywhere from 25-40 minutes depending on the amount and type of beans. Truly impressive. That squash I mentioned earlier? Six minutes. (to be clear, that's six minutes once it gets up to pressure which takes about seven minutes, but still, it takes 30 minutes to do it in an oven!)Another great thing about the Instant Pot is its popularity. I know, that's not always the case, but in this instance it is. There is no shortage of books and products designed specifically for the Instant Pot which is really nice for the beginner. When they are talking about features and tolerances specific to your pot, it gives you confidence.I just cannot say enough good things about this pot! I love it love it love it.