Congratulations, you have an electric pressure cooker and love cooking delicious meals quickly and easily with it. However, if you’re like us, you want to cook every meal in it! And thanks to the accessories that you can get for it, using the Instant Pot for more ways for more foods is easier. In fact, we use ours several times a week thanks to the various accessories that we have!
While most electric pressure cooker pots come with a few useful tools such as rice spoon, soup spoon, a rice cup, wire rack, and possibly a silicone grip there are so many other accessories available that can make using your pot even better. Here are our must-have accessories for everyone’s favorite pressure cooker!
- Stainless Steel and Ceramic Non-Stick Cooking Pot – Since you should always have more than one inner pot handy, so that you can cook another dish without having to clean up the first one first, we recommend you purchase one with your pot. Our machine came with a metal alloy non-stick cooking pot so we invested in a quality stainless steel inner pot when we placed our order. If you’re doing a lot of cooking in your Instant Pot, you’re going to want another non-stick inner pot. We suggest getting a quality ceramic one for durability and longevity.
- Steamers – From baskets to stackables, there are several steaming accessory options available. A large basket with handle for easy removal is great for cooking multiple portions of a single food. We got ours in an Instant Pot accessory set on Amazon. If you need to multitask, a stackable steamer insert works great. Having one of these allows you to cook two separate things at the same time without mixing them together! They need to have about the same cooking time though.
- Springform Pan – This pan is great for both sweet and savory recipes. You can use a springform pan to make a single serving size cheesecake, torte, lasagna, soufflé, or meatloaf in your Instapot.
- Tempered Glass Lid – You will need this lid when you want to make yogurt, braise, slow cook, or steam food without pressurizing. Great for the sauté, slow cooker, or keep warm functions. A glass lid is also great for serving. Just remove the pressure cooking lid and place the glass lid on top.
- Egg Bites Mold – Why go to Starbucks for egg bites when you can make your own in the Instant Pot? This mold is also great as a reusable storage container and freezer tray. We are loving all the uses we’ve found for the one that came in our set.
- Egg Rack/Egg Trivet – Make perfectly hard-boiled or soft-boiled eggs in just minutes. To prevent the eggs from being damaged during cooking, keep them steady and upright with an egg rack. Cooking eggs in the pressure cooker not only takes a fraction of the time that it takes on the stovetop, but pressure-cooker eggs are so easy to peel. The shells practically fall off. This rack can also do double duty to lift other pans off the bottom of the pot.
- Yogurt Cups and Pressure Sterilization Rack – This is ideal for making individual yogurts instead of one large batch. Most yogurt maker cup racks can also hold baby bottles, rings, lids, and nipples for sterilization. By pressure steaming them, you can kill bacteria, fungi, and viruses.
- Mini Mitts or Gripper Clips – Whether you’re cooking directly in the inner pot or cooking with one of the racks, pans, baskets, or molds; things are hot! Both of these tools are great for moving hot items from your stove top, oven, air fryer, microwave, or pressure cooker.
- Silicone Cupcake Liners – They are great for making egg bites, poached eggs, mini cheesecakes, and more! To make “poached” eggs, crack an egg into each cup and place them on a metal trivet/rack inside the pot. Add 1 cup of water to the bottom of the pot, cook on low pressure for 3 minutes, then do a natural pressure release. Perfect for eggs benedict!
Save and Add Versatility With A Great Set
If you want to save on the cost of purchasing these items, consider getting several of them in an accessory set. We did just that with the KITOOLBASE Mini Accessories for 3 QT or 4 Qt Instapot.
Here what we thought of the set…
Loving our electric pressure cooker, it is our goto for quick and easy cooking. So when our Instant Pot accessory set arrived we couldn’t wait to start using all the different items. In the box we found a 4″ springform buckle pan, a 7″ x 4″ loophole steamer basket, a silicone egg bites mold, stainless steel egg steam trivet rack, a bowl/dish clip, stainless steel kitchen tongs, two silicone cooking pot mitts, three magnets, and a cookbook.
The three magnets in the set have helpful information about cooking times and recipe guide includes several interesting items to cook. We found these items very helpful. And, after putting the magnets on the refrigerator, the steamer basket was the first item that we used and found that it was perfect for steaming baby carrots. With all the veggies that we will be picking from our garden, I see this item getting a lot of use! Second, we tried the egg rack and since we had such great results, I am happy that we can get rid one more item that clutters the kitchen, the hard boiled egg cooker.
The egg bites mold is not only great for making copycat Starbucks Sous Vide Egg Bites it also works great as a reusable storage container and freezer tray for things such as homemade baby food, stock, freezer jam, pre-portioning fruit for smoothies, single servings of sauces, summertime treats like ice cream or pudding pops, jello, and other molded desserts.
The small 4″ springform pan is perfect for making a single serving size cheesecake, lasagna, or meatloaf. And, we use the mini mitts to get items out the oven, air fryer, and off the stove every day. They really are the perfect size! The tongs and bowl/dish clip, while interesting items to have, they will not replace the heavy duty ones that we already owned. Not a deal breaker, since there were so many great items in this set.
Overall, we are very pleased with our purchase and would recommend this set to others.
If you are lucky enough to own a 6 – 8 Quart Instant Pot/Electric Pressure Cooker, Nice Kitchen offers a great starter set. It includes a 7 ½” x 2 ¼” steamer basket, 7″ springform pan, egg rack/egg trivet, two silicone mitts, small cookbook/recipe guide, and three magnets with cooking times.
This set includes the same recipe guide and magnets as the one for our 4 qt pot. The larger 7″ springform pan is perfect for making desserts or main dishes for two to four people. And, with a second set oven mitts, we will always have a pair handy. We only wish the steamer basket was as deep as the one for the smaller pressure cooker.
I love my Instant Pot! Thanks for the great post about the accessories. I already have a few of these things, but I am excited about wanting to get the Egg Bites Mold now!
Amy, I believe the Egg Bites Mold is Cool and quite popular!!
i think knowing these accessories are avialable makes me want to get the pot now!
Molli,I totally understand, As a user of the Insta-Pot if you had the positive experience that I have had,you would have bought the Insta-Pot and accesories Yesterday!! lol
We are planning to get Instant pot. I never know about these accessories. Thanks for sharing
You are very welcome,now you know.
Wow so many accessories who knew. I definitely would like to grab a steamer basket to reheat tamales.
Mmmmmm! Tamales, yes please!
This accessories list is brill – so many ones I didn’t know I needed!!
I didn’t know I needed them until I had them! Now, I don’t know how I ever lived without my Electric Pressure Cooker nor Air Fryer Oven and all the cool gadgets that I put in them.
Accessories for a kitchen appliance is a big help to create amazing dishes within dishes. I love the egg cooker.
Agnes, I really like that term “dishes in dishes”, my favorite accessory is the egg cooker as well. I have a hunch that you are an awesome cook!
I didn’t know that it had this many accessories! Great list. I’ll have to check them out
What’s great is that, as long as they are small enough, you can also use many of the items that you have for your regular oven, toaster oven, or air fryer in these pots.
I would love to try all of these! I need to get my Instant pot cleaned off!
Variety makes cooking more fun!
Alexandra it’s all about accessories, to expand your insta pot uses.
I am planning to buy instant pot electric pressure cooker and I am considering buying these accessories.
The accessories are definitely sensible.
It is either now or later when you realize the accessories can expand your already creative cooking.
I have silicone cupcake liners! I never thought to use them this way. Thank you for this idea 🙂
You are certainly welcome.
Wow! This pot does it all! I need to invest in one.
Yes, Myrah, it does, now if they could just make it self cleaning. lol
We are furnishing our kitchen at the moment and just article made me add an instant pot to the list of things to get ahaha! it looks so convenient
Convenient it is Corrine! I must admit I am a wee bit jealous.
Apparently I need an Insta Pot! I definitely want to try out some fun recipes and it sounds like a great way to cook them!
Krysten, you forgot ‘very convenient’ I hope you have as much fun as we do!
I have a pressure cooker, and it did come with extra attachments. However, what a great suggestion, to purchase an extra pot. I would have never thought of that! Thanks for sharing!
Ceci, it sounds like you will have all bases covered.
I love steaming my veggie salads since I can’t take most of them so raw but I’ve never thought of steaming from our electric pressure cooker. I would use the tempered Glass Lid for sure!
I only hope we have helped you find a solution.
You definitely have!
Thank you for your ambition and reply Dalene, you rock!
Any time Marcus.
Xoxo!
Thank you for making my day Dalene, You rock girl! Xoxo
I think I’m gonna have to jump on the band wagon and get myself an Instant Pot. All the recipes I see look so good!
It just so happens,there are still seats available on the Band Wagon so welcome aboard!
I’ve been hearing so much about Instant pot, i really need to buy it, i heard it is great.
Chad, it is pretty cool!
I have been looking into getting an Instant pot. I love that there are so many accessories that go along with it as well. I think this make have convinced me to pick up an instant pot.
Go for it, in my opinion it is much more practical than those gimmicky one hit wonder cooking accessories.
Ooo I’ll have to get some of these! I do have an Instant Pot and I’d be all about the egg one. It would certainly come in handy.
Amber, I think you have chosen the most popular application.
I need to get some of these for my pot. I think the egg one is the one I will buy first.
Yes the egg one is a great start, as you know accessories offer more diversity in cooking.
I’ve been wanting an instant pot for so long! I didn’t know there were so many accessories available for it. When I finally get one, I’ll definitely be buying some of these to go with it.
These are awesome instant pot accessories, a lot that I didn’t even know about! Making boiled eggs in mine is the only way I do it now, but that special mold would definitely help. Thank you so much for sharing!