Important safety information about your pressure cooker and Instant Pot.
Don’t make the popular “pressure cooker” or “Instant Pot” vanilla extract using vodka and vanilla beans or follow any other recipes that recommend using liquor under pressure – these recipes could result in injury and fire. Evaporating alcohol is not only flammable but it could combust unexpectedly.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a recall for Instant Pot GEM non-pressure multi-cookers, yesterday. The voluntary recall comes two weeks after Hip Pressure Cooking first...
There is a spate of Facebook posts making the rounds from people using varying brands of stove top and electric pressure cookers, detailing multiple accidents where the cook is burned by a violent...
A large number of multi cookers with pressure programs have an inner bowl with the "max/full" line at a level that is unsafe for pressure cooking.
Multi cookers are electric pressure...
Instant Pot made a public post on their Facebook group, regarding a small number of their non-pressure multicookers and how they can overheat, melting the plastic base of the unit. The post lists...
A growing number of people are sharing pressure cooker tips that include advice about covering the valve or vent of the pressure cooker during pressure release by covering the vent/valve of the...
The National Center for Home Food Preservation (NCHFP), an offshoot of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), posted an announcement today warning consumers against using digital...
Last week, Breville USA announced a voluntary safety recall for gaskets of over 35,000 "Fast Slow Cooker" (model number BPR600XL). This recall covers the gaskets in cookers with production...
UPDATE: All Instant Pot SMART currently on sale, with a production date of 06/2015 or later, have had this issue fixed.
Yesterday Instant Pot, a subsidiary of Canadian Double...
Recently, the Associated Press, published a pressure cooker story that contained a pressure cooker dulce de leche recipe with dangerous instructions. <span aria-label="Continue reading...
