Instant Pot: the unboxing

Not quite like being a kid at Christmas, but still pretty cool: my Instant Pot arrived today via Coupang (ordered it yesterday, along with some other items, including that smokeless grill); it cost almost the same as it would have had I bought it at Costco. (And Costco would have been more expensive thanks to the taxi trip both ways.) Here are photos of the unboxing, which happened only a few minutes ago. 

Peekaboo!

Features including, apparently, sous vide—another answer to my prayers:

A parts list:

The greeting:

Instruction manual, red gasket, packing material:

Shrouded:

Unwrapped, front view:

The top twists off:

Some suspiciously naughty-looking rubber/silicone stuff:

And finally, a look into the gullet:

I'm going to plunge right in and try making Instant Pot bread tomorrow night. The idea is to bring some form of garlic bread for this Friday's luncheon, which I hear is going to be lasagna made by a pro chef (my American coworker's wife). I'm looking forward to the lasagna while also hoping it won't contain any weird shit in it. So far, I've had no reason to mistrust the wife's judgment; when she's made Western food in the past, she's generally done a pretty good job of it (except once, with a very strange pesto). But you never know; the chef may have some strange notions of what makes a good lasagna.

Meanwhile, I'm really looking forward to getting to know my Instant Pot. And when that smokeless grill arrives in a couple days, that's going to be the icing on the cake: I'm eager to test out the grill directly under my fire alarm to see how well it works, maybe with a quick beef stir-fry or some samgyeopsal. This could go very, very wrong, but it'll be fun.