SwiftOnSecurityDec 24, 2022
You need an Instapot and convection toaster oven (basically a more capable air fryer), you're welcome. Throw stuff in a pot/on a metal sheet hit a button and you're done. I spent way too many years without making my own food. Also a new nonstick pan to easily make omelettes with any ingredients you have left over.
Show threadSwiftOnSecurityDec 24, 2022

If you are super intimidated to start cooking in an Instapot, it's fine to get meal kits like this.

Literally dump it all in with a slow-cooker spices packet and 6 hours later you have days of food. Then start adding more of stuff you like such as extra onions or potatoes.

Tyson Ready for Slow Cooker Boneless Beef Roast with Vegetables Meal Kit, 3.9 lb https://www.walmart.com/ip/21553448

Robot or human?

Show threadSwiftOnSecurityDec 24, 2022

And you don't need every ingredient or a recipe for lots of slow cooker things. Today I'm just putting left over stuff. Onion soup mix, brown gravy mix, pre-cut chuck roast beef pieces (which I optionally browned in a pan first), an onion, mushrooms, and a bunch of garlic cloves.

It's really hard to fuck it up. I've decided I used too many mushrooms but guess what I just won't eat all of them. It's a soup you have a fork.

Show threadSwiftOnSecurityDec 24, 2022

When you make your own food at home you realize how little meat and other premium ingredients you get in prepared food. Like $10 of chuck roast at Walmart could be the same amount of meat as $150 of DoorDash.

I know this is basic but no harm in being approachable. Been doing this for years now I wasted so much money on restaurant food.

Show threadSwiftOnSecurityDec 24, 2022
Baby yellow potatoes and onions when slow-cooked are amazing sponges of flavor and super cheap to bulk up a soup as much as you want. You don't even need to chop them up except remove the outer layer of the whole onion. It will fall apart as it's cooking.
Show threadSwiftOnSecurityDec 24, 2022
Also foods quickly cooked+crisped in a convection oven (air fryer) taste and texture better than the same thing in the microwave. It's really not actually that much longer with the active heat circulation fan.
Show threadSwiftOnSecurityDec 24, 2022

Instapots are (optionally) pressure cookers but reason so popular is series of clever engineering that physically interlock where you can't fuck up if you literally try. If computer AND heater limit switch fails, overpressure valve for the outer vessel. You can find occasional rare stories about them failing but if it was a real problem they'd quickly be a social media pariah.

Just be mindful of not crazy overfilling where during (unnecessary) manual pressure release you allow the liquid to bubble up and sputter out the top. Even then it's designed to be easy to knock back closed. It's not been a problem for me.

Really it's a bunch of cool engineering. The old stove pressure cookers were frankly nightmare fuel.

Show threadSwiftOnSecurityDec 24, 2022
The modern iteration of historically dangerous appliances are really interesting if you go into understanding them. Natural gas house furnaces are another example where there is a cascade of tests and sensors including fallback dedicated sensors that must all return safe to proceed and continue operation.
Your furnace likely has a physical air pressure sensor to know if the manifold blower is actually working and impelled air reaching an unimpeded exhaust vent. It doesn't trust the motor RPM readings or current draw. Tons of amazing insights in these tools whose consequences for failure is death.
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@SwiftOnSecurity yay engineering around safety.
Dec 24, 2022 at 9:32pmWeb