Beef stew

We made beef stew tonight tonight in the instant pot. The recipe was from Serious Eats. It came out great like all the other Serious Eats recipes we've tried. The special ingredient was gelatin. Not sure how much of a difference it made but it was delicious anyway.

The only drawback is that it took about 3 hours from start to finish, including cutting up all the veggies, browning the meat and the veggies, and blending the sauce. Plus there was the time it took to heat up the pressure cooker (two pressure cooker steps).

Meat was fall apart tender. I guess I can see why you need two steps so that the carrots and potatoes don't turn to mush. Oh well. I'll think twice about this one.

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