[Instant Pot] Portion, Save, and Reheat Left Overs
Sometimes you are just one person who is cooking for just one person and intending to feed just one person but is using one of my Instant Pot recipes that make many servings. Welcome to batch cooking! I love batch cooking. I do it often.
Here's my secret for how I, personally, cook batches.
First, I start out with one of my Instant Pot recipes. Whichever is getting low in the freezer is the one I make more of.
Then, I portion 4 servings out into these 2-cup souper cubes, and put the remainder in the refrigerator. As the Souper Cubes freeze solid, I transfer the cubes to 1 gallon freezer bags (I reuse them), stacking 3 along the bottom vertically like files and one across the top horizontally like a diner plate.
With the exception of the Chili Mac and Cheese, all of my Instant Pot recipes can make 6 servings: 4 souper cubes, 1 in my belly for having made it just then, and one more to put in the refrigerator for quick eating.
To reheat from a Souper Cube, I do pot-in-pot reheating in the Instant Pot. The short information is, if using a thin metal pot and 1 cup of water below the trivet, it takes 40 minutes at pressure plus a quick release. The long information is that I use a cheap aluminum cake pan to be my pot, with no lid. And the reason for that is that you can use metal utensils with it because you don't have to worry about scratching a finicky nonstick coating. And that means, you can eat right out of your pot, which is in the pot.
Hope this helps! Go forth and batch cook your hearts out!