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Question: Does it brown?
Document: Latest 3rd Generation Technology, Stainless Steel Cooking Pot and ExteriorThe highlight of this pot is that you do not have to pre-soak before making brown rice.Love that it is quiet when cooking.
The highlight of this pot is that you do not have to pre-soak before making brown rice.Love that it is quiet when cooking.Cooks meat fast.Watch out that when you track cooking time, in addition to the time shown on the pot, you also need to add time it takes to bring the pot to pressure, and the time you let it cool down before you can open it.
It's as beautiful as the picture displays. It comes up to pressure in about 15 minutes. It is a solid piece of equipment: The stainless steel insert is heavy duty, with a thick bottom that I'm sure would be fine to brown on the stovetop. The liner is a thick, sturdy black ceramic. The plastic parts are solid. The lid is not hinged, meaning that you can clean it in the sink rather than wiping it down.
With the Instant Pot you will have to brown your food on the stove top in another pan and then move it to the cooker. I tried browning in the liner on the stove. This did not work at all well. This browning feature on the Elite also makes it so much easier to thicken foods at the end of the cooking cycle by simply pressing the start button. You will get a nice heat up to make a gravy or just thicken a soup or stew.
Not only is it a programmable pressure cooker, but it has a stainless steel inner pot. SCORE!!!!!! My first cooking adventure involved making brown rice. It turned out perfectly and in less than half the time it normally takes me to cook brown rice. The only tip I learned was adding  a little spray of olive oil to the water and brown rice mixture. I set it on the "rice" setting and off to the grocery store I went. It was so easy.
I've been using it about a month. It does everything I ask of it. Quick pressure cooking -- and no burned beans like on the stovetop. Making rice requires a bit of learning the right amount of water for brown, long, sticky, etc -- once you get the proportions, the rice is great. Soups, stews with meat, lentils:  does it all. Seems well built. Easy to clean. Controls are straightforward once you read the manual. And the food touches only stainless steel!
This is one of the best stainless steel inner pot pressure cooker. Had miracle stainless steel rice cooker ippojbefore, most of the rice used to stick to the pot but with this cooker, not a single grain sticks to the pot. Read a comment above, saying that we can't brown or saut&eacute; anything in this cooker but u can. You have to use the manual mode. But the only problem is u need to close the lid n open up every now n then to stir in the contents.
I like that the Elite stays attached until I wish to remove it, so I can open and close it repeatedly for multiple servings. Be careful of the escaping steam. The program buttons are comparable to the Elite. The Instant Pot has a slow cooker button. Both lack greatly in what they call a recipe book. So lacking in fact, that it leaves me searching online for recipes to try. Now, the biggest drawback in my opinion is that the Instant Pot lacks the ability to brown in the cooker.
It would be very convenient if I could simply put the inner pot on the stove top to brown/saute onions or garlic, etc, first before adding the remaining ingredients to pressure cook. It looks like it may be possible, but since it is a rather expensive appliance, I am hesitant to try. Anyway, since I do not have time for two processes, I usually simply forgo the browning process and throw everything in at once and only pressure cook it all.
It is good for stew, congee like food, but it would cook faster due to its pressure.BTW, I have a regular pressure cooker but I seldom use it as it is a little complex to use and it requires some attention. Now this cooker combine the ease of electronic cooker and function of pressure cooker, rice cooker, slow cooker together. I highly recommend it!Update on 2/28I tried brown rice. It handles brown rice very well.
Answer: Yes it does when select saute