My dad's always showing off his Instant-Pot smart pressure cooker, and a couple days ago he gifted me one of my own. It's fantastic. It can do the slowcooker stuff (sorry crock pot, I'll always love you!) and the ricecooker stuff, and also just bake stuff without having to heat up a stove. '
Yesterday I cooked a set of chicken drumsticks and they were super fast and easy! I just covered them in some paprika and other seasoning, piled them into the pot (they can be on top of each other!), added some water, sealed it up and pressed poultry. It only took like 20 minutes, and then another 10 as I let the steam condense (releasing the steam immediately can dry out the meat).
That left me with a cup of seasoned greasy water. I added a cup of rice and pressed "rice", and had yummy rice ready while I was still enjoying the drumsticks.
This is where I got weird with it though: I've made stock from leftover turkey, and the pressure cooker has an option for that too. It can do it in *four hours* instead of taking all day, and so much more efficiently. So I did that! I put all the leftover bones in with a quarter of water and some carrots (I need more celery). I turned it off after it finished since I didn't need it to "keep warm", and I was going to bed.
I open it up this afternoon and it's great, all the leftover meat just drops right off the bones. I'd read that they should even be "crumbly", so I skeptically squeezed one, and sure enough it fell to pieces - dropping shards of soft bone and thick marrow into the stock. Because I'm a total freak my brain immediately went "Ooh, marrow. ...The bones are probably edible, right?" Google indicates that they are indeed, and commonly eaten across the world. Cue a few minutes of me mashing up all 6 bones with my fingers, getting the pieces as small as possible and mixing it all together. The bones are soft enough to not even worry about chewing much. Into this quart of rich "bone stock plus rough bone meal" I added a quart of rice, and now I'm waiting to see what comes out...
Yeah this is alright! Hard to describe the taste, like a lean savoriness. The rice turned brown and has dark specks of marrow through it. The bone fragments are as edible as the ones in canned sardines, no problem there (kinda fun even). There are bits of carrot pulp but mainly their flavor has soaked into the stock and thus the rice. Yeah, I think I honestly like eating this. I do feel good about 100% utilizing the food, but all the better if it tastes like this. Maybe with some onions and celery with the carrots next time.
I took a picture but it's not anything special, just like 4 cups worth of brownish rice with orange and black specks. I'll be eating from this for a few days...