• Amazon sold a whopping 300,000 Instant Pots during last year’s Prime Day when they were discounted to their then-lowest prices ever.
  • This year’s Prime Day is shaping up to be unlike years past, with some reports saying that the event will be held in October.
  • Regardless of when Prime Day will be, we’ll likely see even more, and hopefully even better deals on Instant Pots.
  • Don’t want to wait until Prime Day? Shop the best Instant Pot deals, online sales going on today, find coupons for your favorite stores, and browse all the latest deals here.
  • For details on even more deals, you can find all of our Prime Day 2020 coverage here.

Every year on Prime Day, people buy hundreds of thousands of Instant Pots, the actual Swiss army knife of kitchens across the country. Last year, the total volume of orders from the 36-hour event broke Instant Pot’s previous sale records.

If you’re only going to buy one kitchen appliance, or you can only bring one hypothetical tool to a kitchen on a desert island, it would be difficult to find one with more uses than this.

The Prime Day deals on Instant Pots that we saw last year, and expect to see again for Prime Day 2020:

Why buy an Instant Pot?

The Instant Pot can do more things – and make more food – than you would believe possible in a comically small amount of space. Depending on the model you get, you can feed families of six or more in one fell swoop, and it can replace 10 common kitchen appliances with one: it’s a pressure cooker, slow cooker, rice cooker, yogurt maker, cake maker, egg cooker, sauté pan, steamer, warmer, and sterilizer.

The real beauty of the Instant Pot, aside from its efficiency, is its total convenience. It removes barriers both to cooking at home and eating healthy foods. Instead of babying dry black beans with an overnight soak and four hours of patient simmering, you can toss them into the Pot and pressure-cook them for 30 minutes while you catch up on a Netflix show.

It's popular with our readers, but also with our team. It's the top product in our buying guide to the best multicookers, and it beat out the Crock-Pot when Insider Picks reporter James Brains compared the two appliances. Instant Pot's newest and priciest iteration, the Instant Pot Max, is also a hit with Insider Picks reporter Remi Rosmarin.

It also has over 30,000 five-star Amazon reviews. If you're looking for a new do-anything kitchen gadget, prioritize this one.

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