2017 Costco Thread

Someone mentioned the Instant Pot further down the thread. I’m curious partly because I keep coming across articles about how great it is. I’m interested, because I have very little, if any, culinary skills, and my wife and I eat out all the time at local cheap canteens, something she’s very fond of doing. I did cook in the past, but only back home in the West, and nothing very complicated.

However, I could really do with a change: I feel like I have the same damn meal every day, and all the local canteen food just tastes the same to me now. I mentioned the Instant Pot to my wife, and showed her an article, but according to her it’s not really any different from the kind of bog-standard rice cooker you get in every house here.

I have no idea if that’s the case or not, but if anyone here does know, I’d love to hear your opinion. Instant Pot, yay or nay? I want to make stuff like spaghetti sauce, potato curry, vegetable stew…