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Pressure Cooker Manuals and Booklets
All the pressure cooker instruction manuals and recipe booklets. Search or click on “Info: Manual Library” to see them sorted by manufacturers.
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COMPARISON GUIDE: Which Instant Pot is right for you? (includes NOVA Plus and VIVA)
As the former presenter in Instant Pot's product videos, I'm often asked by readers which Instant Pot they should get. While most manufacturers retire an older model and only sell the newer...
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Fagor America Closes Shop As Parent Company’s Struggles End
Fagor America will be shutting down operations over the next few months after its parent company in Spain announced it would close, Fagor America's CEO Patricio Barriga confirmed to hip pressure...
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It’s Official: Instant Pot GEM Recalled
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...
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Alert: Instant Pot GEM No-pressure Multicookers Overheating, Melting Base
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...
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PREVIEW: Instant Pot’s new ULTRA Advances Multi Cooking (look ma, no app!)
Instant Pot's newest model, ULTRA, not only re-designs the way we interact with a pressure cooker - but it can do all this without the requisite app that pleased and confounded an equal...
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PREVIEW: Fagor’s upcoming LUX™ LCD, 10-in-1 Multi Cooker!
UPDATE 4/30/17: Although this pressure cooker model was originally launched as the "LUX 360" due to unforeseen circumstances, Fagor America has had to change the name of this model to "LUX™...
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PREVIEW: Instant Pot’s upcoming DUO Plus!
Mid-April Instant Pot will release a total refresh of their most popular best-selling DUO, the DUO Plus! I've been playing with it for a month and wanted to share the new features with...
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5 Electric Pressure Cooker Buying Tips + 3 Top Recommendations
Electric pressure multi cookers are having their moment, and it's a mind-bending task to choose from the flood of literally hundreds of choices available right now. I'm sharing my tips...
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Good Housekeeping Mag Adds Multi Cooker Reviews -Fagor Wins Big!
Multi cookers are often grouped with stove top pressure cookers because they have a program or two that cooks at pressure. But, somehow, comparing an appliance that can do so much...
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Extra Discount for Hip Readers on Fagor’s LUX Electric Pressure Cooker
Hip readers get an extra 10% discount and free shipping when ordering Fagor America's newest electric pressure multi-cooker directly from their online store using the coupon code "HIPCOOK"....
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Newsflash! Instant Pot breaks Amazon Prime Day Records – tops U.S. Sales
Amazon just announced the results of their second annual prime day - and one pressure cooker topped the list. Their top selling item in the United States was the Instant Pot DUO 6L which...
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No Pressure Canning in electric pressure & multi-cookers says NCHFP
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...
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Consumer Alert: Breville Fast Slow Cooker Gasket Recalled
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...
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Breville Fast Slow Pro™ Pressure Cooker Review
This pressure cooker releases pressure by itself and lets you select the cooking time, pressure, opening method and whether you want to keep-warm right at the start of the cooking process. So you...
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2015 Electric Pressure Cooker Comparison Guide
It was not too long ago that electric pressure cookers were a little-known machine with a niche market. Today, the addition of new features and functionality is taking counter space from slow...
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Instant Pot SMART® Pressure Cooker Review
UPDATE: Hip Pressure Cooking no longer supports or recommends the Instant Pot SMART. The app updates have been irregular and some phones/tablets that used to run the app no longer work. ...
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PREVIEW: Breville launches game-changing pressure cooker
Update: The pressure cooker has launched and we reviewed it! Take a look at the Breville Fast Slow Pro Pressure Cooker Review!
In October, Breville will debut a new electric...
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VIDEO: Kuhn Rikon Switzerland Factory Tour
Ever wonder how pressure cookers are made? Come with us to Kuhn Rikon, Switzerland, and join the private factory tour! Each step is explained and - you'll be surprised to find that...
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Instant Pot Recalls all SMART electric pressure cookers
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...
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VIDEO: Kuhn Rikon Cooking Museum Tour
Kuhn Rikon gives us a private tour of their cooking museum in Rikon, Switzerland. We got to see some of their earliest models, as well as one that was ahead of its time. Most...
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Pressure Cooker Review: Fagor Chef
Fagor's newest premium pressure cooker line is full of innovative features, sports extra safety systems and is slick, too!
The base is wide and roomy and the features include an innovative...
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Discounted Instant Pot SMART for hip readers – on sale again!
Instant Pot’s newest model is based on the success of their previous model (DUO) with 7-pre programmed functions, lid slots, etc., but has leapfrogged all multi-cookers to become a smartcooker – a cooking appliance with functionality that can be custom programmed by the cook.
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Instant Pot QVC UK Pressure Cooker Demo
At the end of September, 2014 Laura was invited by Instant Pot UK to do several demos for them on QVC UK - TV Shopping Chanel - to demonstrate the Instant Pot electric pressure cooker.
She...
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PREVIEW: Sneak Peek of the upcoming Instant Pot SMART
Just a couple of weeks ago we got one of the very first production units of the much-awaited new Instant Pot model: SMART. It's a new kind of pressure cooker that interacts with an app to give...
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Broadway Panhandler’s Kuhn-Rikon Pressure Cooker Demo – Summer 2014
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Zabar’s Kuhn-Rikon Pressure Cooker Demo – Summer 2014
I was so excited to finally show off these elegant pressure cookers, there was a nice turn-out and the store did an amazing job at promoting the event, setting it up and even...
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Instant Pot Hits Europe
Instant Pot has partnered with Earlyview, a Brit housewares product development company, to bring their top-selling electric pressure cooker to Europe! During the last two years, Instant Pot...
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Pressure Cooker Review: Magefesa Practika Plus
We tried three Magefesa models and Practika is our favorite. It has the heft of the premium cookers without the flashy design (or price) - but the savings is paid in quirks. Once the cook...
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Instructions & VIDEO: How to make Yogurt with Instant Pot DUO, SMART & ULTRA
To make no-fail yogurt in Instant Pot, or your favorite yogurt maker in just three steps, sanitation, inoculation and incubation. None of these steps can be skipped!
You can...