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I wrote this post while in Alaska and when rereading it I thought many would wonder why this is here on AffiliateToolBelt.com This site is supposed to be about affiliate marketing and here’s a post about soup and Instapot! 

This post may be a post on soup and Instapot but what it really is is an example of Affiliate Marketing in action.  For those that are new to the idea of affiliate marketing the wonder what all the excitement is about. Well at its simplest affiliate marketing is simply selling a product that someone else produces, markets, ships or delivers and making a profit. I don’t have to develop or manufacture the product. I don’t have to store, ship deliver or bill for the product.So the risk and investment is usually minimal.

Affiliate marketing takes many forms from promoting physical products of major companies like Amazon to promoting digital products that are delivered and billed using the Internet. This is an example of affiliate marketing a product Amazon sells. If people purchase an Instapot using the link on this page I get a commission.

This summer while in Alaska (that’s the subject of another post) we made homemade soup for the 5 months we were there. Food is expensive there and canned soup at $4.00 a can was a bit much. Dried beans can form the basis of delicious soups and have the added bonus of being very inexpensive. We used dried peas, dried black beans, dried lentils, etc we purchased at Amazon in either 5 pound or 25 pound sizes. (I’ll add links to those later.)

For the past 2 years we were using an expensive stainless steel pressure cooker. There were two problems with that. First you had to babysit it to make sure the stove was keeping it at the right level through all of the heating, pressurizing,cooking and depressuring cycles. If the temperature was too high at any point you ended up with a layer of burned soup at the bottom you had to scrape off and clean. If you made the heat too low it didn’t pressurize and cook properly. Last summer the handle cracked and we found it would cost $45 to get a replacement under the so-called “lifetime warranty.” So we started to look for alternatives.

We read alot of positive feedback about the Instant Pot. Amazon was having a sale on the 8 quart Instant Pot which was normally $139.00 for $100.00 so I bought one. It’s great. You just add the ingredients, press a few buttons and the Instant Pot handles all of the rest. It adjusts the heat through the heating, pressurization, cooking, cooling and depressurizing cycles. When your delicious soup is ready it will signal you it’s time to eat. You can be off doing other things while all of this is going on. You don’t have to be in the kitchen babysitting the pressure cooker.

Another advantage over the pressure cooker is that no matter how carefully I adjusted the temperature I usually had a layer of baked and burned soup at the bottom of the pan that had to be scraped out. If the heat was too low it didn’t pressurize or cook properly. However I would have to say that the “instant” in Instant Pot is a little misleading. After all these aren’t “magic beans” they don’t cook faster here than any place else on earth (remember My Cousin Vinnie?). The heaing, cooking and cooling take the same amount of time. It’s just that the time you have to babysit it is instant – just add the ingedients, press the buttons and eat your delicious soup when it is done.

Although I’ve only used it so far to make soup I am looking forward to trying the other 14 smart programs- Meat/Stew, Bean/Chili, Poultry, Sauté, Steam, Rice, Porridge, Multigrain, Slow Cook, Keep-Warm, Yogurt, Pasteurize & Jiu Niang cooking. I’m particularly looking forward to the yogurt program. We eat yogurt every day. It’s somewhat expensive, you can’t buy a ton of it since it would keep forever and since it’s 17 miles into town with gas at almost $5.00 a gallon that’s another expense especially in a 4Runner.

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