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Cooking Diary: Instant Pot or other Pressure Cooker


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I'm interested what different people do to record their cooking adventures.
My first cooking diary was for sous vide (see TdeV's Sous Vide Diary) no doubt egged on by @rotuts.

 

Binder Title: Instant Pot Diary
Index to sections: 15 tabs, mainly large groups of food which do well in the Instant Pot: beans, potatoes, rice, other grain, meat, soup, stew, one pot meals, vegetables, dessert. 
Section: The Bean section (includes beans, cowpea and lentil) have notes of my experience, but many items in the binder are actually recipes which I have found elsewhere and modified with my experience (usually in dated notes at the bottom of the original recipe). Note that I appear to have purchased the Instant Pot in Nov 2019, so I do not have loads of experience.
Page(s): Each type of bean gets its own page, the name of the bean becomes the highlighted title. Which contains dated notes about my experiments and experience.
 

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I've decided @rotuts is like the Tom Sawyer of eGullet. He gets everyone else to do the dirty work; keeping diaries, taking pictures, posting our meals - while he sits at home roasting coffee and eating the good part of the apple!

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9 minutes ago, weinoo said:

I've decided @rotuts is like the Tom Sawyer of eGullet. He gets everyone else to do the dirty work; keeping diaries, taking pictures, posting our meals - while he sits at home roasting coffee and eating the good part of the apple!

@rotuts is "of council"... like a senior partner, full of wisdom with no need to take depositions

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Well, it turns out that I have one of those famous red pads:

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I use it for both SV and IP:

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I just flip it - one side is SV and the other is IP.  Just like those 2-in-1 magazines and books.  It lives in the kitchen and is where I keep track of my notes when I'm trying out recipe or trying to create/recreate something.  It's great to have it all in one place instead of scraps of paper floating here and there.  When I've got things where I want them, I make an entry on my recipe webpage for permanent storage.  

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