Corned beef

Saint Patrick's Day is a week away and Safeway had this corned beef on sale for half price. I put it in the Instant Pot for 90 minutes with the seasoning packet, 4 cups of water, and a quartered onion. Some recipes called for 70 minutes but this was a really thick piece, maybe 2.5 inches thick. In the end it took almost 2.5 hours including coming up to temperature and natural pressure release. It's still faster than the 3-4 hours the bag says to cook it, but only just... Maybe next time we use the stove to bring the corned beef and water to boiling then pop it in the Instant Pot.

The revelation this week was the veggies. One head of cabbage, 6 carrots, and 4 quartered new potatoes cooked in 3 minutes pressure time (maybe 20 minutes total time). I put in a can of broth instead of the leftover corned beef cooking liquid. Came out great! The cabbage was soft but not too soft. Even the stem of the cabbage was edible. 

The kids ate all the potatoes so I tried to do it again with 4 more potatoes. It turned out that the coming up to pressure time was important because these potatoes weren't cooked all the way through. Three more minutes under pressure (with the 5-10 minutes coming to pressure time) and they were just right. Next time, if doing potatoes, maybe just 7 minutes pressure instead of 3 minutes.