Instant Pot Duo 7-in-1 Electric Multi-Cooker 5.7L

The Instant Pot Duo is the multi-cooker that started a kitchen phenomenon, and the 5.7-litre 7-in-1 remains the definitive version: a pressure cooker, slow cooker, rice cooker, steamer, sauté pan, yoghurt maker and food warmer in one stainless-steel-lined pot. Nearly 20,000 Amazon reviewers hold it at 4.7 stars — extraordinary consistency for a product this widely owned. Its headline trick is time: pressure cooking delivers fall-apart pulled pork in 50 minutes instead of 5 hours, dried-bean chilli in under an hour with no soaking, and weeknight risotto in 12 minutes with no stirring. Thirteen one-touch programmes cover the common cases, while manual mode gives full control over pressure and time. The 5.7L pot feeds up to six, the inner pot is dishwasher-safe stainless steel rather than non-stick coating, and ten safety mechanisms — pressure and temperature monitoring, a locking lid that cannot open under pressure — make it a fundamentally different proposition from the stovetop pressure cookers of old. At £86.17 it's one of the highest cooking-capability-per-pound purchases in the kitchen: the appliance that replaces several pans and gives you back weekday evenings.