Instant Pot becomes a smartphone-controlled cooking gadget
You can have a separate slow cooker, steamer, air fryer and proofer at home, but with so many appliances, your counter will quickly fill up. The idea of Instant Pot is that the device is all kinds of kitchen appliances in one. Soon it will also be smart, because the new Instant Pot Pro Plus 6-quart Smart Multi-Cooker can be operated with your smartphone.
Instant Pot Pro Plus 6-quart Smart Multi-Cooker
Instant Pot is a combination of an egg cooker, slow cooker, pressure cooker, air fryer, steamer, oven and rice cooker in one. This also applies to the new variant: Instant Pot Pro Plus 6-quart Smart Multi-Cooker, although it has the great additional advantage that you can operate it with the Instant Brands Connect app.
For example, you can put something in the pot in the morning and then switch it on remotely later in the day. Or vice versa: if you consider that your slow cooking dish is already ready, you can switch off your Instant Pot remotely with your smartphone (a bit like a Crock-Pot). In addition, you can find more than 800 recipes in the app to make in the cooking pot. Just tap it and the Instant Pot will automatically program for that particular dish. It also indicates when you should add an ingredient.
Handy kitchen aid
To keep an eye on how cooking is progressing, you can consult the app, but also the large LCD screen on the device itself. The suggested retail price of this kitchen aid is $169.99. That’s about 150 euros. It is already available from Amazon.com in the United States, but not yet in Europe. For the time being, we have to make do with the ‘dumb’ variant and therefore a little more of our own cooking skills.
Even the Instant Pot Wi-Fi Smart Pressure Cooker, which appeared in 2018, has not appeared with us. Support for the Google Assistant was announced for this at the beginning of 2019. Whether that is also present on the Instant Pot Pro Plus 6-quart Smart Multi-Cooker, that is still unknown, but it is likely.
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