Cooking With Your Instant Pot; Pressure Cooking - Instant Pot IP-LUX50 User Manual

Cooking with Your Instant Pot

Pressure Cooking

The following procedure is for "Rice", "Soup", "Poultry", "Meat/
Stew", "Bean/Chili", "Multigrain", "Porridge", "Steam" and
"Manual" functions.
1. Follow steps in the "Cooking Preparation" section of this
manual.
2. Connect power cord. The LED display shows "OFF"
indicating that it's in standby state.
3. Select a cooking function, e.g. "Soup". Once a function
key is pressed, its indicator lights up.
 Within 10 seconds after pressing a function key, you can
still select any other function keys and adjust cooking
duration.
4. Select cooking time.
appropriate cooking time based on the specific food, the quantity of food and your
texture preference.
5. Cooking starts automatically in 10 seconds after the last key press.
 Three audible beeps will sound to indicate the cooking process has begun. The LED
display shows "On" indicating that the pre-heating state is in progress. Please note:
Depending on the food content, the quantity and its temperature (frozen or not), the
preheat cycle can range between 10 to 40 minutes.
 As the pressure increases inside the cooker, it is perfectly normal for traces of steam to
escape from the float valve until the float valve pops up.
 Once the cooker reaches working pressure, the LED display changes from "On" to the
programmed cooking time. The cooking time counts down to indicate the remaining
time in minutes. During this pressurized state you should not see any steam gushing out
anywhere from the lid. However, from time to time you may see a small smoke effect
coming from the steam release handle and occasionally a little sputtering. This is
perfectly normal.
 During the cooking operation, the cooker makes low clicking sounds. This comes from
normal operation in switching the heating element on and off.
 At any time, you can cancel the cooking program in progress and return to standby
mode by pressing the "Keep-Warm/Cancel" key.
 You may use the "Adjust" key (except
the "Manual" and "Rice" functions) to
adjust cooking duration. Press the
"Adjust" key repeatedly to change
between "Normal", "Less" and "More"
modes which will light up on the display.
 If necessary, change the cooking time with "+" and "-". Press and
hold the "+" or "-" key for faster changes.
 The built-in cooking time is suitable for general purpose food.
Please use the cooking time table in the recipe book to determine the
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