The Instant Pot Is the Kitchen Gadget You Need This Passover

I’m a kitchen-gadget kind of guy.

That’s not an accurate statement. Let me try again. I view cooking gizmos the way the Department of Defense views weapons: If someone out there is making them, I’d like to own them, regardless of how useful they end up being or how much they cost. Sometimes, my appetite for machinery leads to disaster; in retrospect, I should’ve known there was really no need for that second ice-cream machine, purchased solely because of the gnawing fear that there may come a time when I would need to make more than three pints of homemade raspberry-harissa sorbet. (Reader: I never did.) Sometimes, I’m rewarded with perfectly useful tools, which is why I can now sear lamb in the cozy comfort of my Manhattan apartment with my nifty smokeless grill. And sometimes my gluttony leads to sheer transcendence, or, as they call it in French, sous vide. But if I had to choose only one, one device to have and to hold from this day forward, I’ve no question that I would choose the Instant Pot.

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