Talk:Instant Pot

What is it?
Other than "7-in-1 kitchen appliance," I mean. Is it a food processor? Does it skin potatoes and fruit? Is it a mixer? Is it a refrigerator? Does it cook rice? Does it fry with infrared? Is it a hot plate? Does it kill and defeather live chickens? Chop onions and make espresso?

This is a remarkably detailed article that (as I write this), lacks an actual definition of the subject that would render it understandable to anybody who has not seen one. I suspect the authors are familiar with it and my complete ignorance is illuminating the lack of fundamental factual information in the article. It's a multi-purpose kitchen appliance (which is self-referentially restated as "designed to consolidate the cooking and preparing of food to one device"). That does... what? JabberWokky (talk) 14:02, 20 January 2018 (UTC) (off to Amazon to go read a sales pitch to figure out what it does!)


 * As a follow up, I can't find a clear overview of the line of products, so I'm hesitant to edit. But they seem to range from 6 to 10 functions (not just 7), "Instant Pot" is a popular brand of a rising appliance category, and a New York Times review about the product  refers to it in generic terms as "electric pressure cooker."  This would go a long way toward clarifying, but given my lack of familiarity of the subject, I'm hesitant to be bold here, lest other models under the same brand name have completely different functions/purposes.  JabberWokky (talk) 14:13, 20 January 2018 (UTC)


 * . When I wrote this I was not very familiar with the subject. I still am not entirely sure as to what all it's features are. If you can find a better way to explain it in the lead please do so.  Adotchar &#124; reply here 23:22, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Misleading information
Quote: "The concept of a multi-purpose cooker has been around since 2006 with the patent from the Midea Group, which would go on to manufacture the Instant Pot,"

Multi-purpose cooker have been on the global market for decades. Please check the example of Vorwerk and it series of Thermomix cookers invented in the 1960s.

Quote: "The name comes from the combination of “thermo” (heating) and “mix” (mixing). The current Thermomix has a heating element, a motor for fast or slow blending and stirring, and a weighing scale. The functions can be accessed simultaneously to carry out steaming, emulsifying, blending, precise heating, mixing, milling, whipping, kneading, chopping, weighing, grinding and stirring. The 2014 Thermomix TM5 also has a touchscreen with a guided mode which allows the user to follow recipes step by step.."

The only way to claim the Instant Pot to be *the first* multi-purpose cooker is to define multi-purpose cookers exclusively as *designs similar to Instant Pot*. This is an even more ridiculous claim considering that Thermomix is the global market leader in this market segment.

Could anybody please fix this misleading PR nonsense? 213.152.161.249 (talk) 13:30, 3 February 2019 (UTC)


 * The original Thermomix sounds like a multi-prep appliance not a multi-purpose cooker. 2600:100C:B01D:829C:2840:FAFF:FE07:A5AA (talk) 09:33, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Gourmet
In the UK Costco do a 'Gourmet' version — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.76.116.143 (talk) 08:43, 16 October 2022 (UTC)