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Cooking with Your Instant Pot
Pressure Cooking
The following procedure is for “Rice”, "Soup", "Poultry", "Meat/
Stew", "Bean/Chili", "Multigrain", "Porridge", "Steam" and
“Manual” functions.
1. Follow steps in the "Cooking Preparation" section of this
manual.
2. Connect power cord. The LED display shows “OFF”
indicating that it’s in standby state.
3. Select a cooking function, e.g. “Soup”. Once a function
key is pressed, its indicator lights up.
Within 10 seconds after pressing a function key, you
can still select any other function keys and adjust cooking
duration.
4. Select cooking time.
You may use the "Adjust" key (except the “Manual” and
“Rice” functions) to adjust cooking duration. Press the
"Adjust" key repeatedly to change
between “Normal”, “Less" and “More"
modes which will light up on the display.
If necessary, change the cooking time
with “+” and “-“. Press and hold the “+”
or “-“ key for faster changes.
The built-in cooking time is suitable for general purpose food.
Please use the cooking time table in the recipe book to determine the
appropriate cooking time based on the specific food, the quantity of
food and your texture preference.
5. Select cooking pressure.
All functions except “Rice” defaults to
High Pressure. For “Rice” function, the default is Low
Pressure. Low Pressure operates at half of the regular
working pressure (around 5.8psi or 40kpa). It is used to
avoid overcooking tender food materials such as
vegetables and for certain recipes that may call for using
low pressure setting.
6. Cooking starts automatically in 10 seconds after the last key
press.
Three audible beeps will sound to indicate the cooking
process has begun. The LED display shows "On" indicating that the pre-heating state is
in progress. Please note: Depending on the food content, the quantity and its
temperature (frozen or not),
the preheat cycle can range between 10 to 40 minutes.
As the pressure increases inside the cooker, it is perfectly normal for traces of steam to
escape from the float valve until the float valve pops up.
Once the cooker reaches working pressure, the LED display changes from “On" to the
programmed cooking time. The cooking time counts down to indicate the remaining
time in minutes. During this pressurized state you should not see any steam gushing out
