Best Pressure Cooker !
350967
This is the best cooker to date.. cooking time is quick and noise is down.
2562121
used the MaxiMatic EPC-808BL Elite Platinum Digital Stainless Steel Pressure Cooker several times now and it does a fantastic job, simple to use and easy to clean. We owed other electric cookers but this is the best.
2401143
This is the only pressure cooker that I have owned.  Love it!  It definitely speeds up my cooking time.
3657250
I adore my pressure cooker. I almost cook solely with this item! I cook my son's baby food in it before pureeing, i make dinner in it, i make dog food in it! The open and close buttons are great and very happy with the stainless steel quality.
2847636
I purchased this to replace an good ole pressure cooker that I received as a wedding gift.  It still worked great, just not on my induction stove.  So... I researched and ended up with this brute.  Awesome sauce!!!  Love the amount of styles of cooking it can do.  It is big enough to hold a meals worth for my 4 teenage boys and 1 darling daughter, and my wife and I.  Sometimes we even have leftovers.  I've slow cooked a fantastic pot roast (I put it in from the freezer), some sesame chicken (again from the freezer) and pressure cooked it to tender perfection, and a few other casseroles that included saut&eacute;ing veg and browning meat before the slow cooking.  I love that I can do some of the precooking in this before setting it up as my crock pot... LESS dirty dishes!  Who doesn't Love that!?!  I really like this thing, so I'll be buying again for Christmas gifts and birthdays.  Sweetness!
1818741
I received my Fagor Pressure Cooker about 2 weeks ago, and absolutely love it!! It is beautiful, safe, and easy to use. Rice has always been problematic for me to prepare, either watery and underdone, or gummy. Now it comes out perfect every time. The foods I have prepared so far are much more flavorful prepared under pressure, and so much faster to prepare. I would highly recommend the Fagor for its high quality and ease of use. I have the 6 quart, and it is of ample size for preparing meals.
1508108
I love this pressure cooker!  It does everything from slow cook, soup and rice.  I thought when I purchased it that it was just a pressure cooker.  Pleasantly surprised.  The meat comes out delicious and it is soooooo quiet.  My stove top version was very loud.  I wish I would have purchased this during a lightning deal for $99.99.  Great price !!!
Jenn
629317
I LOVE IT!  I had zero experience with pressure cookers before I bought the IP-DUO60, but replacing 5 kitchen items I used frequently with one item was too good not to try. Now, I use the Instant Pot daily if not more than once a day, and I am trying new recipes in it all the time. The perfect (easy to peel) hard boiled eggs to an entire turkey breast to desserts ... all easily done with the Instant Pot. And the safety features make it easy for anyone to use.

I talk about it so much several friends have bought their own and love it too!

Update: I have had my IP-DUO60 for almost 3 years now, STILL my favorite tool in my kitchen and still use it daily. A majority of my friends at now IP owners too.
1397911
I researched stainless steel pressure cookers that are NOT "Made in China" extensively before I bought this one, as I would not want to risk Chinese made steel touching my food, due to possible contaminants, and also would not want to have a high pressure device made in China in my kitchen. This one is the only PC Fagor still produces in Spain.
I am very happy with my purchase. It works perfectly, cooks cut up potatos in 7 mins and dry beans in 12!! It has two pressure setings, which is not the case with all PCs.
Plus, if I ever move and end up with a different type of stove (would love a ceran one), this PC will still be usable, as it works on any of the currently existing stove types. Something to keep in mind, as my sister renovated her kitchen and had to donate all but two pots, as they didn't work with her new stove.

I would have liked to get a WMF PC, but they are much more expensive, and if you want to get a glass cover, theirs is double the price of the Fagor one. I am now glad I did not spend the extra money on the WMF, and think I will use this one for a very long time. Definitely worth getting the glass cover as well. The space saving design is an added bonus. The PC came wth a nice color recipe book! 137 pages and glossy paper, so I consider that another added bonus. Check out Miss Vicky's pressure cooker web site for cooking times of beans and pulses not listed in the Fagor booklet.

What motivated me to get a PC is the fact that dry beans, lentils, rice, etc cook in only minutes, so, as a vegetarian, I can eat much helthier. Before, I never had the patience to wait for chick peas to cook for 45 mins, and cans are lined with plastic on the inside which leaches into the food. Getting the beans/lentils dry is also much, much cheaper! You can literally throw whatever veggies and beans inside the pot and have a soup or stew 15 mins later!! Love it.

PS: I agree with another reviewer- whoever decided to glue the sticker to the pot should get fired.
4234252
Have been cooking using this high pressure cooker for a month now and I love this product! I cuts down the cooking time to half and the food tastes better and juicier! It can also hold a lot of food, enough to feed a family for two to three days. It's also really quiet when it cooks and not scary at all! I wish it had a delay cooking option that would make this product perfect! Also really easy to clean too!
4537443
I really love this product.  I have had 2 stove top pressure cookers in the past.  I got a little nervous after purchasing a glass smooth top stove.  My old pressure cooker would rock on it.  I decided to purchase an electric pressure cooker and this one is so great!  It has a nifty electronic menu for all the settings.  You can practically set it and forget it.  Set the pressure and the time and it does all the work, no need to monitor it to check when pressure begins, no need to keep an eye on the timer, this pressure cooker does all of that for you and will shut off and even keep the food warm.  The pressure cooker is silent so, no more hissing.  It is a beautiful appliance and matches my new stainless steel kitchen appliances as if they were made for each other.
  An added feature is the removable non-stick food container, makes it handy to prepare the food, serve the food and wash the container.  It also has measurements inside the container to show how much you are preparing.  My only criticism is in the directions for the positioning of the pressure limit valve, you need to position it just right or it will hiss and the pressure will not come up.  I definitely recommend this product.
2895024
I'm really happy with my new electric pressure cooker!  Yay!  No more worries about stuff exploding because the pressure isn't released enough when I take the lid off!  Yes, this did happen once.  This cooker was big enough even for my 8 lb. pork loin and the meat was as tender as if I'd marinated it in milk for a full day. I mostly cook for a big bunch but even cooking small meals or quinoa and millet were super fun and awesomely simple and fast.  I've now cooked almost every dinner this month in the pressure cooker just so I could get good feel for timing my meals to get them on the table.

One thing that wasn't clear at first was how to get the exact time I wanted for cooking, so hint: Press and HOLD the Pressure Keeping Time button until it reads the number of minutes you want your food to cook.  Keep and eye out as the minutes on the display "go around the horn" really quickly.

Second hint: Always make sure the actual cooking pot is in the cooker.  Once I almost poured the food in without the pot!  I was used to my manual cooker that doesn't have in internal pot.
3586544
I love this pressure cooker. The best purchase I have made. It arrived very quickly and works great!!! My sister has had the same model for 2 years now and it is still working perfect.
3735221
We've used it strictly for pressure canning and water bath canning only & it hasn't skipped a beat! This pressure cooker/canner is so simple to use & it cuts so much mess, hassle, and time from canning. Some people have complained that it spits out an error code after 2 or 3 sessions but we were able to use it non-stop all day (maybe 10 sessions or more) and did not have a single problem. It is much larger that I anticipated from the pictures on the ad, but that is a good thing. A lot can fit in it at once, and cuts the process time in half or better. Not only does using this unit free up the stove for food prep, but it eliminates the chance of boiling water accidents, and keeps the temperature and humidity down in my home versus stovetop canning. The built-in safety features put you at ease about pressure cooking/canning, from the auto-locking lid under pressure to the little steam-condensation catcher on the back-Carey thought of everything! It's a MUST HAVE appliance even if you only plan to use it once or twice a year.

EDIT: I'd like to also add that I saw a review on here regarding it being messy when you pressure can, and even after using it all day we did NOT have a mess like they had pictured in their review. During processing it hisses out steam from the bypass pressure vent and little water droplets sometimes build up and out a little bit, but none that make it out onto the lid or the countertop. There is a small clear capture canister mounted to the back of the lid. After all the pressure canning and canning we did in that picture, it didn't even fill all the way up.

UPDATE: We've had this pressure cooker/canner for over 6 months now and we've gotten to use it for a variety of things. We've made bulk pressure-cooked chicken breast from frozen to completion in less than 10 minutes. We've made the most amazing pulled pork we've ever had in this thing. My only regret is not buying one of these years ago!
498584
I bought this on Amazon Prime Day - wasn't even shopping for a pressure cooker but I was definitely interested in trying one out.  I have to admit the instructions were a bit daunting but I bravely tried my first recipe - just an easy chicken dish - and I was quite impressed.

I love that you can brown/sear meat in the cooker before you pressure cook so that everything can be done in one pot. I also LOVE the way rice comes out in this pot.  I hate making rice - it always takes too long and comes out sticky or gummy.  Perfect rice in the Instant Pot!  I made plain white, risotto (which was amazing and so much easier than making it on the stove) and did a Mexican rice and bean dish.

I've also made pork carnitas, sausage and peppers, a pot roast and bolognese sauce and they all came out very good.  I'm looking forward to soups and chili and I'm sure as I get more comfortable with it I'll try some more interesting dishes as well.

The only things that I think would be helpful to mention is that almost all of the meat dishes had quite a bit of liquid that you need to cook down or thicken after you're done cooking.  Most of them I just saute for awhile in the pot after removing the meat and that does the trick. My sausage and peppers, for example, were very watery so I had to discard some of the liquid and add more tomato sauce to give it the flavor and consistency that I wanted. The other thing I find myself doing with some chicken and pork dishes is finishing them off under the broiler so they are crispy.  Meats definitely come out with more of a crock pot consistency so depending on what you are making, the Instant Pot will not give you the browning results that I've seen in some of the recipes I've made.

All in all, I love the fact that I can make a complicated meal in record time that's moist and flavorful.  I am loving this new gadget and highly recommend it to anyone that would like to try pressure cooking!
3785993
Best pressure cooker ever i owned and will be for the rest of my life.
*First of all its pretty sturdy and looks like its gonna last forever with proper care and maintenance. Absolutely worth every penny.
*It saves energy bills and plenty of time as opposed to traditional stove top pressure cookers and other electric rice cookers.
*Stainless steel inner pot is absolutely healthy and is made of high quality.
*First time i used Instant pot and to make basmati rice with 1cup rice to 1.5cups water as suggested by the Instant pot time table and unlike i read other reviews here...NO rice doesn't stick to the inner pot. The rice cooked perfectly in 8min.
*Cleaning was a breeze too. All i did was add 2drops of washing liquid to the pot and filled it with water and 2min later the very minimal food residue just wiped away with the soft side of the cleaning scrub and rinsed the pot in water and done.
* Thank you instant pot company for making my life easier and healthier
302652
If there's on kitchen appliance I have to say was the best purchase I've ever made - it is the Instant Pot, hands down. This multitasking cooker cut down my cooking time to mere minutes compared to when i was slaving away in the kitchen making the same thing with a traditional pot. The technology of a pressure cooker is nothing new but for people like me who do not work with pressure cookers on the daily, this has been a godsend! One thing that sold me on this was the all in one promise of pressure cooker, steamer, saute-er, slow cooker and pastuerizer.

All the meats I made were fall off the bone. Incredible. Rice cooks in about 6 mins and you can make beef stew and other soupy meat stews in 25-35 mins. Super hearty meals. This pot is legit. I even purchased one for my parents who use it daily. My father is a chef and he was impressed with this alternative.