Instant Pot is a brand name of a popular lineup of multi-cookers that can pressure cook and have other functions like sauté, slow cook, steam and more. Smaller models (3 quarts) use around 700 watts, while larger models (8 quarts) will use 1200 watts. The main function of an Instant Pot is as a pressure cooker, where it takes 5-10 minutes to build up pressure in the sealed "pot" and then the food is cooked, typically faster than other methods.
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Instant Pots can be very energy efficent because they can reduce cooking time when using pressure cooking, however it can also be hard to estimate how much energy they use because of so many different functionalities. While the power draw of an instant pot may be 700-1200 watts max depending on model, it only uses that much during heating/pressurizing, over the entire cooking cycle cumulative energy would only be 250-350 watts or so.
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