Obsessed With Your Instant Pot? These Are the 4 Safety Tips Parents Should Keep on Hand

While it's tempting to plop all of your ingredients into the pot and get the million other things on your to-do list done, try to stay relatively close to the kitchen. Despite the fact the cord is short, it's possible for little ones to potentially pull the Instant Pot off the counter. Another helpful rule to enforce? Making sure your kids aren't in the kitchen when you're cooking. Period.

Although watching a stream of hot gas shoot out of the lid is more than mildly entertaining, don't let your children get too close, as it's really freakin' hot.

As with any pressure cooker, putting too much liquid in your Instant Pot can lead to dangerous pressure levels. Be sure to fill it up no more than two-thirds of the way. Cooking food like rice or pasta that absorbs water? Stick with only filling it up halfway just to be safe.