Instant Pot Corn on the Cob (Electric Pressure Cooker) - Recipes That Crock! (2024)

FAQs

Can the Instant Pot be used as a crockpot? ›

Press the "Slow Cook" button to select the slow cooking function. Set the cooking time and temperature. The Instant Pot has three temperature settings for slow cooking: low, medium, and high. Use the "Adjust" button to choose the temperature and then use the "+" and "-" buttons to adjust the cooking time.

There's still overlap when comparing an Instant Pot to a Crock-Pot, depending on which model you're talking about. Just remember that all Instant Pots are multi-cookers, which means they slow cook and pressure cook, and Crock-Pots are usually only slow cookers.

Cut or break each ear in half. Place a heatproof trivet or small wire rack in a 6-quart or larger Instant Pot. Add the corn, standing them up side-by-side on the trivet. Add 1 cup of water and cook for 5 minutes under HIGH pressure.

Most Electric Pressure Cookers Can Also Slow Cook!

If your electric pressure cooker has a 'slow cook' setting: Use 'slow cook' recipes and/or instructions formulated for your unit.

The pot of the slow cooker usually sits on a base that houses the heating element on the bottom, while Crockpots have their pots inside of a container (or crock) and get heating from all sides. Therefore, slow cookers heat up slower than crockpots, with the heat level higher on the bottom of the pot.

Cooking meat in the slow cooker usually takes 6 to 8 hours, but it will only take about 30 minutes in the Instant Pot.

As for convenience, because a pressure cooker cooks so darn fast, you aren't sacrificing all that much on that front, either. Anything that takes eight hours to cook in a slow cooker can be cooked in about 45 minutes in a pressure cooker, and most things cook much, much faster even than that.

Good corn on the cob will have kernels that 'pop' when you bite into them. Overcooking makes the inside too mushy and the outer kernel too tough. I prefer less cooking to more. But people's taste vary.

Boil the corn until the kernels turn bright yellow and are crisp tender, 4 to 5 minutes. Carefully remove from the water with tongs to a serving platter and serve warm. For more info on how long to boil all sorts of corn, check out our story A Precise Guide to How Long You Should Boil Corn.

At this pressure, water boils at 121 °C (250 °F) (described in vapour pressure of water article). The higher temperature causes food to cook faster; cooking times can typically be reduced to one-third of the time for conventional cooking methods.

What not to do with a pressure cooker? ›

Disadvantages of cooking food in a pressure cooker

However, starchy foods may form acrylamide, a harmful chemical, when pressure cooked. Consumption of this chemical on a regular basis may lead to health issues like cancer, infertility, and neurological disorders.

Yes, you most certainly can cook raw meat in the slow cooker! You put it in “cold”, with whatever liquid your recipe calls for, turn it on either “low” or “high” depending on your recipe (I usually start it on “high” for a couple hours, then turn it to “low”), and in 6–7–8 hours, it's now COOKED meat!

An Instant Pot, also called a multi-cooker or electric pressure cooker, is an appliance that can do the job of a rice cooker, a yogurt maker, a steamer, a pressure cooker, a saute pan and a slow cooker (some features vary depending on the model you buy — there are several).

Pressure cookers are designed to make short work of slow cook dishes. They're economical both in the amount of power they use and are also ideal for tenderising cheaper cuts of meat.