Bought my wife Tefal pressure cooker. She made a simple soup with just beef, potato, carrot cubes and a bit of spices. Meat came out so soft you could peel it with your fingers.

When we do chicken soup, meat effortlessly falls off bones. Pressure cookers are crazy! I'm a big fan!

2c Rice, 2c water, 3 min manual and 10 min natural release. Instant perfect rice.

Potatoes entered the chat

EDIT: 30s later I realized this may have made more sense in my head. Root veggies have better timing so I sub potatoes for rice. I make rice in it when I do stir fry tho.

I gave both an instant pot and a Zojirushi and it wasn’t until your comment that I realized I should use both at the same time. I’ve mostly used my instant pot to make chili or oat meal.

The beef stew looks great Pablo. I’ll need to try to make that.

Yeah I've had the thing for years and only really used it for rice until now.

If you're getting your meat from Costco, get the $4/lb whole brisket and a vacuum sealer.

NEVER BUY STEW MEAT

100% agree with this because they always leave the poxy grizzly bits and use the shittiest cut they can get away with unless you go to an actual butcher but...

It's usually round steak (gluteus) which gets tough when you cook it

This I can't get behind. Chunk of round, cut it yourself to remove the grizzle and leave it on a low and long simmer and it turns out great. Nice and lean and melts in your mouth. Nom nom nom.

Edit: I am buying large chunks though as I have a lot of mouths to feed so it's worth that effort. Always pass some over to my elderly neighbour too and she always comments on the meat being great. Beef stew is my comfort food of choice.

I tried yogurt a while ago. Put it in little jars and stacked them in, so it was single-serve. Worked great and really easy!