I'm sure that things like this didn't help their bottom line either.
I bought this in August of 2017. It is a perfect Chinese knockoff of the instant pot. It was about half the price. In my defense, I did not set out to buy a counterfeit instant pot. I thought I was just buying a regular Electric pressure cooker. But it was all it was available in Costa Rica.
I'm not sorry I bought it because the directions were so obscure that when I went looking for help on the internet I found eGullet.
It always happens that when somebody develops something really good, pretty soon the imitations outnumber the original.
