At the Center of My Plate: An editor, an Instant Pot, an industry and a new year.
Photo credit: Chris Scott
To ring in the new year, I decided to get acquainted with the Instant Pot that my family received for Christmas — Christmas 2021, that is, because it’s taken this long to work through my fear that this pressure cooker, despite its safeguards, is liable to blow up like a pipe bomb. Given my antagonistic relationship with technology, this is not an irrational fear.
In an afternoon, I managed to succeed with two basic…