Mother’s Day Gift Guide & Giveaway

The Duo Nova is my #1 basic pressure cooker recommendation. It's the best balance between low cost and in-demand features.

The display is easy to read, the push-button steam release automatically seals up when the lid is locked in place, and it pressure cooks like a dream. (Read my full review here.)

The Duo Crisp is my favorite two-in-one pressure cooker, and my #1 recommendation for an 8-quart pressure cooker.

It pressure cooks and crisps your food like an air-fryer with the switch of a lid. (Read my Duo Crisp review here.)

If you want to get Mom the latest and greatest, look no further than the newest high-end Instant Pot model.

The Instant Pot Pro has Favorite settings for those meals you cook all the time, as well as built-in reminders for the steam release. (Look for the full review coming soon, but I'll tell you I *love* it.)

This book is full of our favorite 200 recipes, most of which aren’t on the blog. The recipes are designed to accommodate cooks of all levels, plus plenty of getting started tips and tricks. 

To see why people love it, check out the reviews and recipes here.

Because your Instant Pot isn’t just for savory foods! We wrote this Instant Pot dessert cookbook with Marci of Tidbits and it has 75 family-favorite sweet treats. 

To see why people love it, check out the reviews and recipes here.

If mom is avoiding gluten, this cookbook makes cooking in an Instant Pot straightforward and easy. Not to mention delicious! 

This is THE perfect gift for new moms and moms of young kids. It includes everything you need to know to make easy, healthy and freezable meals for babies and toddlers. 

Get more details here.

Make more than 100 healthy vegetarian meals in your pressure cooker with this colorful cookbook for the veggie-loving mom in your life. 

These little pans are workhorses! They’re perfect for pressure cooker lasagnas, “baking” cakes, cooking pot-in-pot, reheating leftovers and freezer meals, and stacked cooking (where you cook part of the meal in the pot and another part in a pan on top).

Basically, one of these little pans opens up dozens of new ways to use your Instant Pot. 

Steamer baskets are essential for keeping food above water during pressure cooking.

For me, a steamer is necessary to cook potatoes (see my Creamy Mashed Potatoes and Quick Potato Salad recipes). This one is a perfect fit for a 6-quart pressure cooker, and the handle makes it so easy to remove.

Springform pans are a fun accessory for making Instant Pot Cheesecakes. In fact, I think that the Instant Pot is the best way to make cheesecake. 

(If you want to give your Mom a cheesecake set,

A trivet or rack is the key to pot-in-pot and stacked pressure cooking. I recommend having both a low and high rack. Many pressure cookers come with a low rack, so you can complete your set with this high rack.

These little grabbers make it so easy to remove your dish when pot-in-pot and stacked cooking. I love these secure pot holders.

I really love the Thermapen! A good thermometer is a MUST for cooking meat in the pressure cooker. You can immediately know if your meat is ready to serve, no cutting and guessing at the color. Plus, you can use this tool everywhere in the kitchen.

For a more budget-friendly option, this Meat Thermometer Fork also works great. 

These five-bladed kitchen shears make it a breeze to get fresh herbs recipe-ready.

For sweet recipes, you can’t beat the extra kick of flavor from real vanilla bean paste. And since you use it a teaspoon or two at a time, it lasts a long time. Try it in my Best-Ever Rice Pudding recipe.

This handy kit makes growing fresh herbs like rosemary, basil and oregano easy and fun right in the kitchen.