You can use either use the Pressure Cook or the Saute button to steam in the Gourment. I often steam broccoli using the pressure cooking function. Just put your steamer basket in with 1 cup of water underneath to steam. For broccoli, you use a zero minute cook time. Which just means the pressure cooker comes to pressure and then you immediately release the pressure. If you prefer not to use a pressure cooking function, use the saute button with water underneath and leave the lid off or use a glass lid. There is no need to buy another model.

Hi Chris,

Since I rarely cook Yogurt from any other method than what we have on the site, so I haven’t tested any of these. If you push the Yogurt button you’ll see a “boil” reading first, then you press to less and 24:00 hours and the normal is 8:00 hours. I verified today that the Yogurt setting on the Gourmet can adjust to 99 hours if you wanted it to. (Press the Yogurt button until it toggles down to Less, then use the plus button to adjust from the default of 24:00 hours up to your desired 36:00 hours.)

I also know that the Yogurt toggled to Less does Low-temperature fermentation while toggled to Normal does a traditional fermentation. However the user manual doesn’t say what temperatures these settings are equivalent to.

Hope this helps! If you do experiment, I’d love to hear back what works for you.

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Such a smart idea! Thanks for sharing Michelle!

Hi Jessica – the Ultra is definitely the higher-end model. They’re both great choices. I don’t like the knob very much on the Ultra, I prefer the push buttons that the Gourmet has, but I do like the progress bar on the Ultra and for $79 that’s a great value for the Ultra.

Thanks Zoey – glad it was helpful. Yes, all the accessories that fit a 6 quart Instant Pot will also fit in the IP Gourmet – most accessories are for the 6 quart. The manual https://instantpot.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Duo_Gourmet_English-Full-Manual_2020-09-03.pdf gives more info about the sterilize function on page 35 and 37. Info on the yogurt setting is on pages 42 and 43.

Thanks for the thorough review. I am new to instant pots and want to buy the gourmet version. Do the accessories for the instant pot fit all versions of the pot? Or will I have to buy accessories specifically for the gourmet version? Also, which accessories do you think are essentials besides the ones that already come with the instant pot? My main goal will be to meal prep (breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert/snack) meals with the instant pot. How do the yogurt and sterilize function work on this? Thanks for answering my many questions about this Godsend of a device!

Sincerely,
An Instant Pot Newbie