Instant Pot Time Chart

Here is a free printable pressure cooker time chart to know how long meat and beans took to cook. When we couldn't find this in find any in PDF form we made these Instant Pot cooking times charts for myself and now for you! If you're wondering how long it takes to steam vegetables in your pressure cooker we have a great guide for you to refer to and print out.

We kept looking on the Instant Pot website when we first opened the box with our fancy pressure cooker in it. We was clueless as to how long to cook meat and other foods. We wanted a quick printable pressure cooker time chart for each category so we could keep them on hand. This and more found on our Instant Pot recipes page!

Instant Pot Time Chart PDF

Listing the most common foods (frozen and fresh) we tend to cook on a free printable sheet, we are now sharing them with all of you too.

If you do have the air fryer lid now you can also grab this air fryer frozen food cook times cheat sheet as well. A great way to add yet another function to your multi cooker pot.

If you are new to pressure cooking we have a lot of easy one pot meal recipes for you here. To begin with let's start with a few basic tips:

• You can PRINT this —–> Instant Pot cooking times cheat sheet that will help you understand how long meat, vegetables and beans take to cook in your pressure cooker.
• We HIGHLY recommend you buy this non stick pot.
  • You should know how to deglaze a pressure cooker after sautéing but it won't have as many issues with this better liner.

For reference, this is the model we have (a 6 quart) and use for all recipe creations.

It definitely takes a fraction of time to cook all foods in your Instant Pot vs slow cooker. That makes it solid for busy families like us. But how long to cook each thing is a bit of a mystery when you first start out.

Of course the times on these charts are estimates as vegetables and meat especially comes in a variety of sizes. The nice thing is it is totally okay to start with the estimated time. Then if you check the food in your pressure cooker and you find that your Instant Pot artichokes aren't done quite enough.

put the lid back on, close the steam valve, and put them in for a minute or two longer!

Tips for Success

Cooking in general is subjective when it comes to tenderness for both vegetables and meat in our opinion.

We like our veggies on the firmer side of things so when we see a time chart for broccoli for example we err on the side of the shorter time and adjust from there a minute or so depending on how many heads we are cooking at one time. Here are a few Instant Pot accessories we think are handy to have to cook:

1. Instant Pot Vegetable Steamer
2. 7″ springform cake pan – we use this for cakes and some savory recipes
3. Angel food cake pan that fits inside a 6 or 8 qt. Instant Pot
4. 6 c. bundt pan that fits into a 6 or 8 qt. Instant Pot

We bought these Instant Pot mini mitts that have come in handy to get things out easier

Free pressure cooker time chart printable

• Free printable Instant Pot cooking times for beans – using bean button
• Printable Instant Pot cooking times for vegetables – using pressure high setting

Here is an example of when we used the bean chart to make no soak Instant Pot baked beans.

Here is an example of when we used the pressure cooker meat time chart to make this Instant Pot pulled pork recipe.

You can place potatoes on a trivet as well as putting them in a vegetable steamer basket, but smaller vegetables don't work as well that way and it is handy to have a basket that keeps everything contained.

The one above comes with an extendable handle as well so it is easier to pull out and not get your fingers too warm!

The pans above are great if you are cooking desserts in your Instant Pot, or something like our Instant Pot breakfast casserole where you want it to come out in one pretty piece for serving purposes, the springform pan is great for that.