Introduction The multicooker category exists because so many kitchens end up with a cluttered lineup of single-purpose appliances — a rice cooker, a slow cooker, a yogurt maker, a steamer — each used occasionally but taking up cabinet space year-round. The Instant Pot Duo Plus is one of the more established entries built around consolidating several of those functions into a single countertop unit, combining electric pressure cooking with a handful of other common cooking methods. This article looks at what the Duo Plus actually offers: how it’s built, what each of its main functions does, the kinds of cooking…

Introduction Few kitchen gadgets have changed the way ordinary households cook quite like the electric pressure cooker, and the Instant Pot Duo is probably the model most responsible for that shift. Rather than doing one job well, it packs seven distinct cooking functions into a single pot, cutting down on both cook time and the number of separate appliances cluttering up a kitchen. This piece goes through what the Duo actually does, how each function tends to get used in a normal week of cooking, who ends up getting the most out of it, and a handful of things worth…