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I get bad results when cooking Calrose rice in an Instant pot, and much better results when using a rice cooker.

(Rice Cooker calrose recipe: Weigh the rice. 1.1 times the mass of the rice is the amount of water you need.)

I use a pot in a pot for 12 minutes and it's ok. I use those stacking metal pots you can get at an Indian food market. I also have an old rice cooker. The convience of the instant pot is I can set a 30 minute delay to soak the rice. The newer rice cooker my mother in law has in Japan does the delay and has lines on the inside of the non stick pot to measure the water so it makes pretty good rice every time.

Pot in a pot also minimizes cleanup, I'm a big fan but few people seem to use that method.

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