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A couple of months ago, Aaron started a thread about the Instapot. (By the way, Aaron, how did the kitchen renovation go?) I mentioned at the time that I wanted a multicooker that was small that I could take along when we travel for cooking in motel rooms. (I had been using an older rice cooker to warm soup.) I wanted to be able to heat canned or homemade soup, but I wanted it to be able to cook rice as well when we go to Florida and have a regular kitchen. I also want to experiment with doing other quick meals when we travel because our go-to Progresso Soup now only does limited low-salt soups, and they seem to have cut back on the vegetables and the meat. I looked at the Green Pan site, but all they had were large multi-cookers.
Last week, I googled Green Pan multicookers, and up popped the Compact Multi-Function Electric Cooker, or as it was listed online, the 10-in one Multi-cooker. It is made by Green Pan. However, it is only sold by QVC, the shopping network. I watched the QVC ad and read the reviews. This one is a newer version of a previous model and has a glass lid. My dilemma was that QVC will not let you order unless you make an account. None of that usual order and then being asked if you want to open an account. I did some investigating and learned that Green Pan makes some items exclusively for QVC. So I bit the bullet and ordered it. I am now getting at least three QVC emails per day. Sigh. I can't believe that there are people who spend their time watching this sales network on TV or online. It is everything all at once.
Shipping was quick, and the pot arrived on Tuesday. I decided to try making a squash soup on Thursday, so that I can become familiar with the controls. I used the soup setting. It allows for a time setting of an hour, 90 minutes, or two hours, so it is more for soups that need time for flavors to mingle. For warming up soup, I would use the boil function. It also has temperature settings on some modes. The soup came out well, with a setting of an hour for 175F, but I did move to the "boil" setting at the end to get it hotter. Clean-up was easy with Green Pan's ceramic nonstick coating.
I will be trying it with brown rice in the next week and will report on how well it works.
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