User Manual
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This appliance has a polarized plug (one blade is wider than the other). To reduce the risk of 
electric shock, this plug is intended to t into a polarized outlet in only one way. If the plug does 
not t fully into the outlet, ip the plug. If it sll does not t, contact a qualied electrician. Do not 
aempt to modify the plug in any way. 
 
Instant Pot® Smart is a new generaon of smart kitchen appliances. It is a mul-funconal 
smartcooker combining the benets of a Pressure Cooker, Slow Cooker, Rice Cooker, Porridge 
Maker, Steamer, Sauté pan, Yogurt Maker, Food Warmer and more. It is Bluetooth® enabled 
allowing connecons from smartphones/tablets. Complex cooking steps can be easily 
programmed in recipe scripts and uploaded to the cooker to produce consistent results every 
me. The recipe scripts can be shared with friends over the Internet. This capability allows the 
cooker’s funconality to be expanded by adding addional apps aer purchase.  
Instant Pot® is a convenient and kitchen-friendly me saver. Together with mulple sensors, its 
micro-processor controlled intelligent programs make your everyday cooking as easy as pressing a 
buon. It brings your green thinking right into the kitchen by saving up to 70% of energy 
compared with convenonal cooking. In most cases, your Instant Pot reduces the cooking me by 
70%, and preserves more vitamins and minerals in the natural ingredients.  
Instant Pot has been designed to avoid the common errors and safety hazards of old stove-top 
pressure cookers using 10 proven safety mechanisms and patented technologies. They include lid 
posion monitoring, locking the lid under pressure, electronic pressure and temperature control, 
dry burn detecon with automac shuto, over-pressure protecon, and temperature and 
electrical current liming fuse. Instant Pot® has earned the entrusted UL cercaon by going 
through the rigorous UL lab tesng. 
 
  High safety standard: 10 safety mechanisms and UL safety cercaon. Please visit 
  www.InstantPot.com for detailed informaon. 
  Bluetooth® Smart compliant (Bluetooth 4.0) to connect to smartphones/tablets, providing 
easy to use interfaces to control and monitor cooking. Recipes and cooking funcons can 
be expanded aer purchase by adding more apps or obtaining recipe scripts via Internet.  
  Mul-funcon: Braising, pressure cooking, stewing, steaming, simmering, slow cooking, 
  sauté/browning, fermenng, making yogurt and keeping warm. 
  14 convenient cooking programs controlled by a microprocessor: Simply press one of 
  the funcon keys to start cooking. The microprocessor controls the me, cooking 
  pressure and temperature eliminang the need to watch over the cooker in the kitchen. 
  Clean and pleasant: Instant Pot produces very lile noise and leaks almost no steam. 
  This keeps the aromas and avor of ingredients in the food and avoids messy spills, 
  splashes or spaers to clean up. 
  Dual pressure sengs for fast and exible cooking: Cooking with the high pressure 
  reduces cooking me by up to 70% and low pressure avoids overcooking delicate food.  
  Up to 24-hour delayed cooking: Long 24 hour mer. Perfect for meal planning. 
  Up to 120 minutes of manual cooking me selecon. 
  Auto keep warm: Aer cooking, the keep-warm funcon starts automacally for 10 hours. 
  Dishwasher safe stainless steel inner pot and steam rack. 










