How I Finally Managed to Break the Seal on My Instant Pot – Need Help Separating the Dishes Without Losing the Gravy!

[cankeel]

Ironically I have something similar and will give it a try. Thx you !

 

[sakke]

@cankeel
This is how my Chicken & Rice dish turned out!

 

[cankeel]

I don’t know why I didn’t think if this; these bowls would have works so well with my recipe

 

[onlym112]

@sakke I've been looking for a 7" SS bowl. Can you please share where you found this? And give a link if you have one. TIA

 

[verse1]

I have to know if you ever got to eat the meat!!!!

 

[cankeel]

@verse1 me too

 

[nergalski]

@verse1 I would have turned the whole thing upside down on a cookie sheet and fed the dog the contents

 

[ladeedee]

Empty rice. Put ice in top pot. Set bottom pot in hot water. Bottom pot needs to expand and top pot needs to shrink.

 

[snows]

Pot in pot means food in a pot to go into the IP. U took it too literally.
Water in the bottom of the IP for setting the pressure to cook.

 

[cankeel]

The pot went into the IP
I used the pot in pot method with water in the bottom and a trivet

 

[snows]

@cankeel U stacked 2 pots together of the same size. Pot in pot never meant that. And they get stuck together. So sad. I have used 2 layers in the IP, different size container.

 

[lovnchrist]

@snows, the stackable pans she used are for the IP! I have them and have used them many times in my pot.
She may have stacked them wrong though.

 

[snows]

@lovnchrist The problem was the pans r the same size. If she put 2 chopsticks on the bottom pan before she put another pan on top it won’t get stuck.

 

[lovnchrist]

@snows, The bottom one has a ridge around it to keep it to prevent it from going in all the way. She stacked them wrong. But they are made for the IP.

 

[snows]

@lovnchrist the pan is round. No matter the ridge or how u stack it it will get stuck it looks like.
A rack as in one posted photo or 2 chopsticks in between the pans will prevent this problem.

 

[cankeel]

@snows chopsticks !one of this dooohhhh moments.

 

[snows]

@cankeel The disposable wood or bamboo chopsticks r very useful. U can cut it to size for whatever u need to do.

 

[agodbelieverlove1stfaith2]

I thought these were the sticking pans. I have a set of ekovana sticking pans thst I use for pot in pot and they do still get almost vacuum sealed.together. What I usually do is hold the bottom pan with a dish towel or.pit holder and use one of those silicone MIT things to grip the edge of the top pan and just pull it up away from the bottom pot.

 

[hireng]

Empty the rice. Dip the bottom of the bottom pot in real hot water until they come apart…

 

[electropterodactyl]

I only use a double boiler…..the top is slightly smaller and ridged…..