Amber Netting - The Instant Pot® DUO CRISP Air Fryer Cookbook: Healthy and Easy Instant Pot Duo Crisp Recipes for Beginners with Pictures (Instant Pot® recipe books)

The Instant Pot Duo Crisp is a pressure cook, slow cook, sous vide, steam, dehydrate, roast, bake, broil, saut, air fry, and keep warm multi-function piece of kitchen equipment. It also has a lid for an air fryer, which differs it from other Instant Pots. This air fryer lid lets you air fry foods in the same inner pot you pressure cook in.

That can be great when cooking meat or other dishes under pressure that you want to crisp up at the end. The Duo Crisp fundamentally works as both a pressure cooker and an air fryer, and it's genuinely useful for making one-pot meals.

Let's start getting into its features with the functions that use the pressure lid.

Pressure Cooking

Depending on what you are cooking, you can set the pressure-cooking function to low or high. The low setting is approximately 6 PSI and the high setting is around 12 PSI.

The default time is 35 minutes, but it can be set anywhere from zero minutes to four hours.

Pressure cooking is a great way to cook food compared with conventional methods, such as a stovetop or in the oven, within a fraction of the time. Based on what you are cooking, the amount of time saved varies, but the rule of thumb is that you reduce your cooking time by of what you would do in the oven or on the stove.

Slow Cook

The slow-cook function can be set to low or high. The minimum set time for both settings is 30 minutes and the maximum is 24 hours. It takes 4.5 hours for the low setting to reach 208 F, and 3.5 hours for the high setting to reach 208 F. It maintains that temperature for the duration of slow cooking after the max temperature has been reached.

When cooking slowly, you make sure the pressure release button on the pressure lid is pushed down and the vent is vented. Remember that it automatically seals when the lid locks in place on the Duo Crisp pressure lid, so you have to manually push the button to vent the steam.

Sous Vide

This is a feature that excites many people. The minimum time you can set this mode to is 30 minutes, and 99 hours is the maximum. The minimal settable temperature is 70 F and the maximal is 200 F.

Sous Vide cooking is worth looking into because it cooks your food throughout and holds it there at a precise temperature without overcooking it. It's well worth trying! You can sous vide a steak or other meat and then broil it using the air fryer lid.

Steam

For steaming, the minimum time you can set is zero minutes and the maximum is 4 hours.

Steam is a lower heat than cooking with pressure, so it is a great option for delicate foods such as eggs, fish, and other seafood. Steaming is also an excellent way of reheating food that you don't want to dry out. Like pasta, for instance. This wouldn't overcook the pasta but would make it nice and hot.

Keep Warm

It will automatically go into the keep warm function once the time is up. It lasts for 10 hours to keep warm and then shuts off.