Instapot and Cookbooks

Out of the blue we received two unexpected packages in the mail. It was an instapot and a pot cover sent to us from our son and daughter in law. They love to cook and thought this might be a gadget we might like given all the in home cooking going on these days. It was a thoughtful idea. The next day we received two cookbooks that contain many instapot recipes. One seemed a bit more like our usual taste while the other was more involved. Neither of them had recipes we had all the ingredients for. But we did have rice. So we decided it would be a good idea to try out the pot and see what it does for rice. I remember having a crock pot many years ago. It was good for putting something in the pot in the morning and coming home after work to a cooked meal. Since we are retired and aren’t going anywhere, having something that cooks things faster hardly matters, but was fun to see what it could do. So we made the rice under pressure, released the steam - of which there is considerable - and tried the end result. It turned out more like rice at Chinese restaurants - kinda sticky. We are more used to persian long grain rice and the Uncle Ben flavored options. We have looked through the recipes and have found a few that we would like to try. We ordered up the ingredients in our last grocery delivery and hope to try one of the recipes soon. I’d rather have a full meal cooked rather than just rice. My husband is really the chef in the house and never follows recipes. I on the other hand follow every specific step. So the instapot is more up my line than his. We are looking forward to the next challenge.