Instant Pot Cook Time Cheat Sheets-FREE Charts For ALL Foods (2024)

You can cook ANYTHING in an Instant Pot – but the BIG question is: How LONG do you cook it in your Instant Pot? Memorizing Instant Pot cooking times for all meats and all vegetables and all rices and beans and roasts… well, it’s pretty much impossible – that’s why you NEED these cooking times for Instant Pot charts and cheat sheets below (they REALLY help!)

To help you out, we have these handy-dandy Instant Pot Cooking Time Charts below.

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Instant Pot Cheat Sheets

Adjusting your cooking times to the much faster cooking in an Instant Pot takes a bit of getting used to – these Instant Pot cooking times cheat sheets below will help you a TON (they sure helped ME!)

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Meat Cooking Times

Beef, chicken, ham, pork, turkey, veal – even quail and duck can be cooked in your Instant Pot. These handy charts below show how long you cook meat in your Instant Pot (cooking minutes per pound of meat).

Instant Pot pork roast time is included in the cooking time cheat sheets below as well as time to cook ALL types of meat in your Instant Pot.

✅ Tip: do not thicken your gravies and sauces BEFORE cooking your meat – this could cause your Instant Pot to overheat because the flour and things we use to thicken sauces sinks to the bottom of your Instant Pot and messes up how the heat is distributed.

Vegetables Cooking Times

Both fresh AND frozen vegetables can be cooked perfectly and very quickly in your Instant Pot. Here’s how long you cook any vegetable you can imagine very quickly in your Instant Pot.

✅ Tip: Steaming your vegetables in your Instant Pot? You’ll need a stainless steel (or oven-proof) bowl and 1 cup of water).

How To Cook Beans in Instant Pot WITHOUT Soaking

Most dried beans Instant Pot recipes require your to soak your beans overnight first – but you don’t HAVE to soak them!

This quick video will share the fastest and easiest way to cook dried beans in your Instant Pot without soaking overnight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3RpmoTAP5Y

Beans and Rice Cooking Times

Wondering how long to cooked dried beans and rice in your Instant Pot? These handy cooking times charts below will give all the info you need.

✅ Tip: Don’t forget, dried beans pretty much DOUBLE in volume when they’ve been soaked and cooked. Do not fill the inner pot of your Instant Pot more than half full to ensure your Instant Pot does not overflow and make a BIG mess.

Instant Pot Cookbook PDFs

Below are some recommend Instant Pot cookbooks, PDFs and Instant Pot recipe books that are perfect for ANYONE new to cooking with an Instant Pot.

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