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I've just posted a query about Rancho Gordo beans in the Instant Pot here, if you can help.

For some reason (can't remember), I bought a 3 Qt Instant Pot. Still haven't used it yet. Can I cook a full pound of Rancho Gordo beans in the 3 Qt Instant Pot? Just ordinary beans, not humongous ones (e.g. small black beans (Midnight), Cranberry, Domingo Roja, Flageolet, Mayocoba, Cowpea). (Will post a link to this question in the Rancho Gordo bean thread).

No. Which is reprehensible, I'm sure. Notwithstanding that @gfweb can just stare sternly at his oven until it behaves.

I have an Anova Precision Oven (Combi oven, sous vide, steam, dehydrator, etc.) about which I'm mostly thrilled except that it DOES NOT HAVE A SELF-CLEAN FEATURE. Just to put this in perspective, every oven I've owned since 1997 has had a self-clean feature. 😡

Me neither. But there are plenty of good and interesting people here. Hope you make fast friends! Welcome.

Welcome, @YvetteMT. Looking forward to reading more about you!

As an amusing aside, today I've been reading THE COMPLETE GARLIC LOVERS' COOKBOOK FROM GILROY, THE GARLIC CAPITAL OF THE WORLD (it's a bunch of greatest hits recipes). I suppose I first went to that festival in 1979 or 1980. Anyway, I mentioned to DH tonight that I was going to make a dish from the book (maybe 60 clove chicken) for our next Wine Time and wondering how much information I need to disclose to the (unwary) participants. I mean the cookbook says that after one cooks garlic for a long time, it's quite sweet. But what it DOESN'T mention is that the participant will be tooting for several days to come, and their sweat will be marvellous. I remember feeding a friend a roasted garlic head/toe with brie and baguette (dinner) and she went home to her husband (who had not attended). In the middle of the night he moved out of the marital bed to the couch because he just couldn't stand the toots!

When younger, I used to make a lot of things destined for the freezer. Somewhere I read that corn starch survived being frozen better than roux. But this theory didn't consider potato starch and I know very little about potato starch.

But many clocks do not have a 24 hour option, so it's easy to forget that one device does!

@JoNorvelleWalker Jo, I think you should auction off tickets to view your apartment. You might earn enough for a few new appliances. 😛

I find the Zojirushi regularly confuses me. I think I've started it and I haven't. Or, I think I've set it to 6 pm but it's actually set for 6 am. 😑

I don't use the feed tube; I put the pieces in the workbowl. But as I said previously, it wears out the bowl, particularly now as the plastic in the workbowl is so inferior. It used to take me several years to wear out the bowl. Glad you have hands which will support a microplane endeavour.

Excellent, @JoNorvelleWalker !

Good plan, @Shel_B !

Shel_B, I don't have any experience with new Cuisinart appliances. For quite some time I've had a bad habit of trying to grind up very hard parmesan (for pizza). Over the years I've replaced the workbowl of my Cuisinart Custom 11 (originally purchased early 90s) maybe 5 or 6 times. For the last 2-3 times, the work bowl for this machine has no longer been available from the Cuisinart website. This has resulted in my having to ALSO purchase other parts that will fit with the new workbowl (e.g. Feed Tube). A new workbowl and other parts were purchased from Amazon and shipped from China. As I said previously, the quality of plastic is such that, even considering that I've tried NOT to grind up very hard parmesan anymore, it takes very little time until the workbowl wears so that it no longer connects properly to the base engine. Frustrating. Periodically when visiting stores, I have gone to look at new Cusinart food processors. I don't like how flimsy these machines look up close. So far no deal. (Aside: I did purchase a plastic bowl which would attach to the grinding end when I purchased my Bamix immersion blender but have never actually used the blender to grind cheese. Although I find the Bamix very satisfactory for making soup and mayonnaise). I share your appreciation for the quality feel of good appliances.