Wife has done the mashed also. She usually adds some cheese or cream cheese to make them even smoother and tastier.

Insta-pot is the greatest. Pressure cooker that is modern. Wife cooks all sorts of stuff in it. We even take it on trips and cook in the hotel room a lot of the time (we still eat out quite a bit but not nearly as much as we used to).

Wife loves it for boiling eggs because the shell nearly falls off compared to regular boiling. We eat lots of eggs, boiled, fried and deviled eggs.

We shop the discount meat in the meat department. Cube it in one inch cubes (the cheapest fatty cuts of meats are delicious, bone in even better for the broth), brown it in the instapot, pressure cook it to mostly done, open it again and add broccoli, bell peppers, onions and any other vegies you want (sometimes a can of Ro-tel), plenty of salt and pepper, finish cooking. One pot meal that is soooo good, we drink the broth. Beef, pork or chicken, they all work equally well. Did a two month meandering trip to Alaska via Seattle (friends there) and the insta pot became the choice way to cook. We had a grill with us also, but the insta-pot quickly became the weapon of food preparation choice for speed, great taste and easy cleanup. Add a few other things in for crunch and variety like sauerkraut, dill pickles, olives and pork rinds and she could have a motel room meal ready in under an hour easily with maybe only 15 minutes prep time. Paper bowls or plates.

Kind of like using a slow cooker only in 30-45 minutes instead of all day.

John