Hi Simon, I suggest you just look up the Instant Pot online because it’s definitely a bit more than a glorified rice cooker. While I don’t own one of these having the app to use the instant Pot is not about being lazy but about accessibility. The device itself is made for preparing meals quite quickly which is possible due to the pressure cooking. Whether that is meant for people who are lazy or for people who simply don’t have so much time because they work a lot and still want to cook something instead of heating up a prepared meal in the microwave is debatable.
We recently purchased a new range from GE and the oven also can be operated with an app. Again, while this adds some convenience as well because you can turn it on remotely, for a blind person many ranges or wall ovens are other wise inaccessible. All of the ranges I looked at and which I liked had touch screens to control the oven. Many still have knobs for the cooktop although even here some had touch controls, but given how quickly you sometimes have to change temperatures when you have something simmering on the stove top I think even most companies realize a physical knob is still the most intuitive and efficient way to do this. Ovens are different, you usually set them and that is that and without the app I couldn’t even use this oven unless maybe I would call Aira everything and then try to touch the screen where the agent directs me to touch, but then there is also the fact that they don’t know the oven and may not be able to tell me easily how to change a certain setting. And yes, it’s convenient as well, a few days ago we wanted to bake a meat loaf which we had in the freezer. It is one made by a local German butcher and it comes raw in an aluminum loaf form. When frozen it needs to bake for 2 hours at 350 and if defrosted 1.5 hours. My wife and I both were working at our store that day until 6 which means we often don’t get home until 6:30 or 6:45 and we didn’t feel like eating at almost 9 PM. So we enabled the remote connection feature, my wife put the meat loaf in the oven just before she left at Noon and at 5:30 PM I set the oven to 350 Fahrenheit with the app and started it. By that time the meat loaf had of course mostly thawed out so when we came home an hour later it was almost done, we had enough time to make some home-made mashed potatoes, put together a salad and we ate at 7 PM. Best regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Simon A Fogarty Sent: Friday, January 31, 2020 11:01 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: update on the Bluetooth Instant pot Ok, so it’s a rice cooker pot and supermarket in a single device. See this is why people are getting lazy, We don’t do things without having app to help us do it. From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> <viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>> On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Saturday, 1 February 2020 6:52 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: RE: update on the Bluetooth Instant pot It’s a multi-function pressure cooker which can also be a rice cooker, slow cooker, yoghurt maker and usually do about 11 or 14 different things. There used to be a Bluetooth model which could be operated with an app and now there is the so-called Smart WiFi model which as the name implies gets connected to your WiFi. From: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> <viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>> On Behalf Of Simon A Fogarty Sent: Friday, January 31, 2020 9:04 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: RE: update on the Bluetooth Instant pot Sorry but what is the instant pot? 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