Week-Long Instant Pot Experiment
I Ate Out of My Instant Pot For 7 Days Straight — Here's What Happened
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Now that I had a third meal in my rotation, the next two days were a breeze. I also came to terms with the fact that there's no better feeling in the world than sitting at your desk and realising you don't have to cook an entire dinner from scratch that evening.
Although I wasn't sick of any of the big batch meals I cooked up, I had another issue: my Instant Pot was in desperate need of a cleaning. Obviously, I had scrubbed the metal insert where the food actually cooks between uses, but the outside of the machine itself was looking a little dingy. On Friday night, I washed down the machine with soap and water and used a Q-tip to get some of the gunk out of the lid's lip. Yuck. If I could do it again, I was definitely invest in some Instant Pot liners ($3 for 6) to make cleaning my appliance a whole lot easier.