Download this Instant Pot cooking times cheat sheet to make using your pressure cooker a breeze! The instant pot pressure cooker has truly been life changing at our home. It cooks meals in a fraction of the time and has helped to make getting healthy meals on our table fast and easy.
We use our pressure cooker at least four times a week. If it isn’t making the main course it is helping out with rice, pasta, grains, veggies, and even boiled eggs. Here are some delicious Instant Pot recipes.
Free Printable Instant Pot Time Chart
I am constantly referring to my instruction and recipe booklet and thought it would be super handy to have a cheat sheet to hang inside my cabinet. These are a few of the items I make regularly in my pressure cooker. I hope you will find these cooking times super helpful.
All you need to do is download and print in color. Hang in your cabinet and get cookin’. You are going to love having food cooked in minutes.
click this link to download Instant Pot Cheat Sheet PDF
Instant Pot Cooking Times
These times are just a guideline. As with everything you might need to adjust for your specific pressure cooker. For instance, when I am in a rush I add two minutes to the boiled egg cooking time (7 minutes), skip the 5 minute natural release and do a quick release and then quick water bath. For sure, the five minute cook time, five minute natural release and five minute ice bath will produce the best eggs with shells that slide off but this works great too and saves a bit of time. Changing these cooking times to meet your needs is okay!
Now you don’t have to ask how long do you pressure cook.
What can an instant pot do?
A lot! The Instant Pot is a programmable pressure cooker. It is a multi-cooker that is a pressure cooker slow cooker, rice cooker, steamer, yogurt maker and warmer, sauté/browning pan all in one. While it can do all of this I use the pressure cooker function. It radically cuts the cooking times of my favorite recipes.
Popular Instant Pot Recipes
I have been using the Instant Pot now regularly for four years. I hope you will try some of our family’s favorite instant pot recipes. Please share in the comments some of your favorite pressure cooker recipes for us to try. Believe me, the electric pressure cooker can make a huge difference for busy families.
Here are a few of our faves! Don’t overlook dessert! This pressure cooker cheesecake is AMAZING. I hope this makes feeding your family easy!
Pressure Cooking Tip:
One tip I have learned is to let meat natural pressure release. I find this makes the meat most tender. I will let a roast or large piece of meat almost totally natural release while chicken breasts are good with 10 minutes.
Choosing a Pressure Cooker
If you don’t have a pressure cooker yet this is the one I purchased on Amazon. (affiliate link). I chose the Instant Pot over the Cuisinart brand because it has a stainless steel pot. It truly is the most used out of all my kitchen appliances.
More Kitchen Helpers
If you are in the kitchen a lot here is another handy cheat sheet for your kitchen to help you remember how many quarts in a gallon.
How Many Cups In A Quart Cooking Conversion Chart
Here is a time sheet if you prefer to slow cook.
Is there a minutes per pound of meat ratio that should be used?
Thank you!
Melis, look at your instruction booklet and compare the times. If they are about the same I think you can use this sheet as a guide.
Ashlee, I bet the Power Cooker XL came with an instruction booklet with times. Compare those times with this sheet. If it is close I think you are good.
Oh Renee, you can do it. Just jump in. If the first thing doesn’t work out, try again. It really does make meal time a breeze.
I need to embrace my instant pot. Thanks.
Instant pot cheat sheet
I have a Power Cooker XL, it’s like a bigger instant pot (10 quarts). Do you think these recipes will work for it as well?
Would these work with most electric pressure cookers? I have a cooks essential, standard PSI is 15.
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Hi Cindy,
Above the image of the Instant Pot Cheat Sheet is a link. Click the blue words and you can download and print. Hope that helps. Email me if you have any trouble!
it said printable but there is no print button so sad
Pat,
An Instant Pot is an electric pressure cooker. For years I stayed away from pressure cookers because I found them quite scary. The electric pressure cooker is really easy to use and safe! I got this one on Amazon.
What is an instant pot
Thank you for this. I don’t have an instant pot yet but I’m hoping to get one soon.