Turn Your Instant Pot Into An Air Fryer

Amazon has discounted the Instant Pot Lux, Instant Pot Duo Nova, Instant Pot Smart Wi-Fi, and Instant Vortex Plus ahead of Mother’s Day — and with pricing starting at only $70, there’s bound to be something for everyone’s budget. The six-quart Instant Pot Duo Nova takes the Lux’s six basic program functions — the warmer, sauté pan, steamer, rice cooker, slow cooker, and pressure cooker — and adds in a yogurt maker in place of a cake oven for those with a more sophisticated taste.
Although it’s marketed as a type of air fryer — ideal for those who are curious but don’t have the space for an extra appliance — the CrispLid isn’t quite as powerful for, say, air frying a whole chicken, but it does surprisingly well at making pressure cooked foods even better.



The Instant Pot is a wildly popular kitchen tool—not surprising when you see it can deliver chicken teriyaki from freezer to table in 20 minutes It eliminates the need for owning multiple other appliances: It can cook rice, pressure cook, sauté foods, make stews, roast meats and vegetables, and all with the press of a button.
If you don’t lift the lid, the air fryer continues cooking at the selected temperature until the timer completes. Add the chicken to the saute pan, cover and heat until the chicken is heated to the proper temperature (165 degrees Fahrenheit). The lid can air fry, broil, bake, roast, dehydrate, and even reheat food.

I heartily embraced the Instant Pot when it came out and still use it regularly for any dish with dried beans, to make yogurt, pulled pork, hard boiled eggs, Indian Butter Chicken and any kind of soup. If you want larger full meals, you will probably be happier with the Duo Crisp or a dedicated air fryer.
Refer to the pressure cooker’s instructions for detailed information about how to use your specific model. Preheat the oven on the broil setting. And right now, you can get this handy Instant Pot-enhancing tool for $50 (down from $60). With that said, you could still do a fair amount of items such as french fries, vegetables, or wings in it. Really just as much as most basket air fryers.
The conduction heat is similar to the type of heat found in your regular oven, and it cooks the surface of your food. Cook on high for 2 minutes, and then remove the instant pot air fryer wrap. You can make anything from roasts to veggies to dessert, and you can often prepare a meal in a fraction of the time it would take using another cooking method.

It has no container where you cook the food in. That’s where your existing Instant Pot appliance comes into play. Almost anything you can cook in a conventional oven can be cooked with the Air Fryer Lid, but for best results, always space out foods so air has room to circulate freely, and cook in small batches.
With the Instant Pot Duo Nova, you can easily cut up to 70% time off your regular cooking time, too, so you have more time to multitask with ease, worry-free. Although the air fryer lid works well, I wouldn’t get rid of an air fryer you already have and replace it with an air fryer lid.

Air Fryer Lid is NOT compatible with (model) Smart WiFi 60, Duo Evo Plus 6, Duo Evo Plus 60, Duo SV 60 or Max 60. The beauty of cleaning the Instant Pot Air Fryer Lid is that it is easy to clean and sanitize. Set the basket in the pot and cover with a lid. Rinse out inner steel pot, dry, and return to pressure cooker base.