What's for Dinner, Fri., Nov. 3, 2023

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9. Successful reheat of the rice and fried pork via Instant Pot

The recipe, sort of, is in yesterday's What's for Dinner post at
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1157134617#post5

I was worried about how the rice would come out with whatever reheat method I chose.

I found a number of ways to reheat with the InstantPot, most involved the STEAM button, which I don't have, so chose a method like this (essentially it uses the preheat phase of the pressure cooker to heat the food):

Put in the trivet and pour in 1 1/4 cups of water (way more than enough but no matter. The amount of food is one large serving)

Put the food in a pyrex bowl and put it on the trivet

Put the lid on and ensure the Vent/Seal switch is in the Seal position

I pressed Pressure Cook and set 1 minute cook time and pressed Start at t+0. I also pressed the Warm button to turn Keep Warm off

Steam started coming out at t+6 and preheat was over at t+7. It was done with cook phase at t+8

I let it sit for 5 minutes to naturally release steam and then did quick release the remaining steam

Anyway it was thoroughly heated and the rice was good and fine. 

Total time from pressing Start to taking the lid off was 13 minutes.

I don't have a microwave. I suppose stove top reheating would be quicker but I'd have to stir now and then. Or steam it on the stove top in a steamer basket but there are 2 phases: get the water to boiling, turn down the heat some and put the steamer and food in..