Pressure Cooker Buyer Beware — 1-2★ Warning Reviews
15 most helpful negative reviews — real warnings from real buyers
Pressure Cooker Buyer Beware — Top 1-2★ Warning Reviews
Real negative reviews ranked by helpfulness. These are the most useful warnings from actual buyers.
Instant Pot Duo 7-in-1 Electric Pressure Cooker, Slow Cooker, Rice Cooker, Steamer, Sauté, Yogurt Maker, Warmer & Sterilizer, Includes Free App with over 1900 Recipes, Stainless Steel, 8 Quart
⭐ (1/5) | ✅ Verified Purchase | 8550 found helpful | 2018-08-29
I was loving my instant pot, bragging to all about it. Making my dogs food was so easy! I put in the food and the water, pressed pressure cook and like magic it was just done when it beeped. Getting used to the pressurization wasn’t hard at all. It wasn’t really difficult to use.
Until last week… My pot just didn’t turn on!
Instant Pot Duo 7-in-1 Electric Pressure Cooker, Slow Cooker, Rice Cooker, Steamer, Sauté, Yogurt Maker, Warmer & Sterilizer, Includes Free App with over 1900 Recipes, Stainless Steel, 8 Quart
⭐ (1/5) | ✅ Verified Purchase | 6701 found helpful | 2017-01-24
I bought this cooker for my wife a little more than 1 year ago. We had good luck with the first one and based on that experience purchased 4 additional cookers as gifts for family members. Two of the 4 gift units we purchased stopped working inside of 5 months and the manufacturer is not honoring the warranty.
Instant Pot Duo 7-in-1 Electric Pressure Cooker, Slow Cooker, Rice Cooker, Steamer, Sauté, Yogurt Maker, Warmer & Sterilizer, Includes Free App with over 1900 Recipes, Stainless Steel, 8 Quart
⭐ (1/5) | ✅ Verified Purchase | 4757 found helpful | 2018-12-03
Im not sure what happened here, because i know this is a good product. I attempted to cook food, my first run, and 15 minutes later The entire machine is in smokes. Quickly filled my kitchen and house with a horid smoke of burnt plastic. There were sparks coming off the bottom of the machine while it was turned on .
Instant Pot Ultra 3 Qt 10-in-1 Multi- Use Programmable Pressure Cooker, Slow Cooker, Rice Cooker, Yogurt Maker, Egg Cooker, Sauté, Steamer, Warmer, and Sterilizer, Silver
⭐⭐ (2/5) | ✅ Verified Purchase | 3971 found helpful | 2018-08-31
We bough an Ultra Mini around two months ago. It was instant love with the device. As a matter of fact, one week later we ordered a larger unit.
Just recently we found that the front dialing button was stuck. I carefully removed it and found that it was bent out of shape in the portion that seats inside of the panel.
Instant Pot Duo 7-in-1 Electric Pressure Cooker, Slow Cooker, Rice Cooker, Steamer, Sauté, Yogurt Maker, Warmer & Sterilizer, Includes Free App with over 1900 Recipes, Stainless Steel, 8 Quart
⭐ (1/5) | ✅ Verified Purchase | 2832 found helpful | 2017-01-26
Just worked a year! The light is on but no heat. I called the customer service and got the answer was if it is over a year warranty that I need buy a new pot base as almost the whole cooker’s price. Very disappointed!
Instant Pot Duo 7-in-1 Electric Pressure Cooker, Slow Cooker, Rice Cooker, Steamer, Sauté, Yogurt Maker, Warmer & Sterilizer, Includes Free App with over 1900 Recipes, Stainless Steel, 8 Quart
⭐ (1/5) | ✅ Verified Purchase | 2600 found helpful | 2018-01-01
This pot is designed to not work. The surface area of the pressure indicating valve is too small for the weight of the valve to be lifted by steam pressure. Result? The valve stays open and the pot simply boils away the liquid inside and does not build pressure.
Instant Pot Duo 7-in-1 Electric Pressure Cooker, Slow Cooker, Rice Cooker, Steamer, Sauté, Yogurt Maker, Warmer & Sterilizer, Includes Free App with over 1900 Recipes, Stainless Steel, 8 Quart
⭐ (1/5) | ✅ Verified Purchase | 1828 found helpful | 2017-04-03
MY INSTANT POT STOPPED WORKING AFTER 5 WEEKS!!!AND AMAZON WOULD NOT COVER RETURN….NIGHTMARE
Instant Pot Max 6 Quart Multi-use Electric Pressure Cooker with 15psi Pressure Cooking, Sous Vide, Auto Steam Release Control and Touch Screen
⭐ (1/5) | ✅ Verified Purchase | 1769 found helpful | 2018-03-13
I purchased the top of the line Instant Pot as it came highly recommended from family. The pot will not consistently pressurize. So I reset, check everything, (including liquid level) and it fails to pressurize. So I reset, check everything again and retry.
Instant Pot Duo 7-in-1 Electric Pressure Cooker, Slow Cooker, Rice Cooker, Steamer, Sauté, Yogurt Maker, Warmer & Sterilizer, Includes Free App with over 1900 Recipes, Stainless Steel, 8 Quart
⭐ (1/5) | ✅ Verified Purchase | 1710 found helpful | 2016-10-28
So I opened my new instant pot, super excited to try it out, unfortunately, it was clearly not new. It smelled like food had scrub marks, watermarks, and the utensil unfortunately, it was clearly not new. It smelled like food had scrub marks, watermarks, and the accessories were in a beat up Ziploc bag. I am so disappointed!
Instant Pot Duo Plus 9-in-1 Electric Pressure Cooker, Slow Cooker, Rice Cooker, Steamer, Sauté, Yogurt Maker, Warmer & Sterilizer, Includes Free App with over 1900 Recipes, Stainless Steel, 6 Quart
⭐ (1/5) | ✅ Verified Purchase | 1443 found helpful | 2018-01-08
Junk. Worked once, then started up with error messages. Absolutely NO product support. They are so far behind that all the voice mail message boxes are full and you cannot even leave a message asking for any support. What a mistake.
Instant Pot Duo Plus 9-in-1 Electric Pressure Cooker, Slow Cooker, Rice Cooker, Steamer, Sauté, Yogurt Maker, Warmer & Sterilizer, Includes Free App with over 1900 Recipes, Stainless Steel, 6 Quart
⭐ (1/5) | ✅ Verified Purchase | 1419 found helpful | 2017-07-25
I was very excited to get my new Instant Pot, and ready to start cooking immediately on our vacation! I love to cook & we always seek vacation lodgings w kitchenettes. But something odd happened when I did the Instant Pot’s "initial test run" as described in the user’s manual. (3 c.
Instant Pot Duo Crisp 11-in-1 Air Fryer and Electric Pressure Cooker Combo with Multicooker Lids that Air Fries, Steams, Slow Cooks, Sautés, Dehydrates and More, Free App With 1900 Recipes, 8 Quart
⭐⭐ (2/5) | ✅ Verified Purchase | 1381 found helpful | 2020-10-05
Bona fides: I have been cooking for over 50 years. I got my first pressure cooker in 1974. That’s a long enough time to allow the development of strong opinions. I had an Instant Pot and loved it. My opinion of ihe Instant Pot Duo Crisp is that it’s a piece of junk which has no place in a serious kitchen.
Instant Pot Lux Mini 6-in-1 Electric Pressure Cooker, Sterilizer Slow Cooker, Rice Cooker, Steamer, Saute, and Warmer, 3 Quart, 10 One-Touch Programs
⭐ (1/5) | ✅ Verified Purchase | 1245 found helpful | 2017-09-03
When my crockpot died, I had a decision to make: buy another one or try out the Instant Pot that’s been getting so much attention lately. I read many, many reviews before purchasing this. I had been a crockpot user for 20 years and have a ton of recipes.
Instant Pot Smart Bluetooth 6 Qt 7-in-1 Multi-Use Programmable Pressure Cooker, Slow Cooker, Rice Cooker, Yogurt Maker, Sauté, Steamer, and Warmer (Product Discontinued)
⭐ (1/5) | ✅ Verified Purchase | 1098 found helpful | 2016-03-25
The unit was good for some things, but multiple times following pretty standard recipes from the Instant Pot manual itself the unit gave an overheating warning and before much could be done food was scorched on the bottom.
Instant Pot Lux Mini 6-in-1 Electric Pressure Cooker, Sterilizer Slow Cooker, Rice Cooker, Steamer, Saute, and Warmer, 3 Quart, 10 One-Touch Programs
⭐ (1/5) | ✅ Verified Purchase | 1040 found helpful | 2017-12-14
I agree with the other reviews where this item seems to be propelled more by the fad/cult followings than actual performance.
Had this for about 2 months with medium use, and really loved it. Living at a high altitude, it’s made things like cooking consistent brown rice and hard boiled eggs a breeze.
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