Immediate Pot Duo Crisp Overview

However after spending a full day strain cooking, air frying, baking, and broiling with the Duo Crisp, we predict it’s too costly for what it will possibly do, and too giant for many kitchens. It’s handy for cooking after which browning dishes, however we suggest it provided that making such one-pot meals is your prime precedence—for strain cooking or air frying individually, we predict different home equipment will serve you higher.

The Immediate Pot Duo Crisp is a large machine (it is available in solely an 8-quart dimension, whereas we suggest a 6-quart electrical strain cooker for most individuals) that comes with two totally different lids, one for strain cooking and one for air frying. Each capabilities work as they’re imagined to, however we don’t suppose the Duo Crisp is as handy for strain cooking because the Immediate Pot Duo or Extremely (our favourite electrical strain cookers) or as efficient for air frying as a convection toaster oven.

With the pressure-cooking lid on, the Duo Crisp capabilities virtually precisely just like the Immediate Pot Duo, however it lacks buttons for many of the preset cooking packages—equivalent to Rice, Yogurt, or Meat/Stew—that assist make the Duo really easy to make use of. As a substitute, it has settings for air frying, broiling, baking, roasting, and dehydrating, which you should use solely with the air-fryer lid.

Like all air fryers, the Duo Crisp’s air-fryer lid doesn’t really fry meals. As a substitute, it makes use of a heating aspect and a fan to flow into scorching air round your meals, turning the Immediate Pot right into a mini convection oven. We don’t suppose air fryers work in addition to convection toaster ovens due to their cramped capability, and the Duo Crisp is not any totally different. The meals we cooked with the air-fryer lid weren’t as evenly or deeply browned as they might have been if we had baked them in an oven or seared them in a skillet, and we couldn’t match as a lot within the air-fryer basket as we may in our favourite convection toaster oven.

The one enchantment of the Duo Crisp we will see is you could prepare dinner one-pot meals that mix each strain cooking and browning. For instance, you could possibly braise an entire rooster after which crisp up the pores and skin, or prepare dinner a casserole after which brown the highest with out having to switch a dish to an oven. That’s a pleasant function, however we’re undecided it’s well worth the worth soar (the Duo Crisp normally prices greater than twice as a lot because the Immediate Pot Duo) or the area you’d have to retailer the extra-large pot and hulking air-fryer lid, until it’s extra essential to you to have an all-in-one machine versus simpler separate home equipment.