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Cooking with the Air Fryer Lid
You can use the Air Fryer Lid to cook your dish from start to finish or to crisp
up food that has been cooked another way, such as by pressure cooking, slow
cooking or sous vide.
1. If plugged in, unplug the Instant Pot cooker base.
2. Place your food in the multi-level air fryer basket (with or without the broil/
dehydration tray), in an oven-safe baking dish or directly in the inner pot,
according to food type
or your recipe.
Note:
Use only an Instant Pot stainless-steel inner pot when using the Air Fryer Lid.
Do not use a ceramic-coated inner pot.
3. Insert the inner pot into a compatible Instant Pot cooker base.
4. Place the Air Fryer Lid on the Instant Pot cooker base and plug in.
Ensure you have unplugged your pressure cooker..
5. Select a Smart Program:
Air Fry, Broil, Bake, Roast, Reheat
or
Dehydrate
.
6. Use the
Temp
and
Time + / −
buttons to adjust the temperature and cooking time
as needed.
Note:
The Air Fryer Lid saves any customization made to the time or temperature after
pressing
Start
.
7.
Press Start
. The display indicates
On
as the Air Fryer Lid preheats.
8. Part way through the cooking cycle the lid beeps and the display indicates
turn Food
.
9. Lift the Air Fryer Lid to pause cooking. If you need to put it down, place it on the
protective pad.
10. Turn, flip or rotate your food, then place the Air Fryer Lid back on the Instant
Pot cooker base to resume cooking.
Note:
If the lid is left off for longer than 3 minutes, it will revert to Standby mode and
display
OFF
.
Note:
Some food does not require turning. If the lid is not removed after the turn Food
indicator appears, cooking will proceed after 10 seconds.
11. When the Smart Program completes, the lid beeps and the display indicates
End
.
