We love our Instant Pot for its ability to quickly and easily cook dried beans with no pre-soaking! We all know dried beans are way cheaper than canned, but they take forever to cook. Not anymore!

We’ve adapted Claudette Zepeda’s tried-and-true birria recipe for the Instant Pot, where pressure cooking delivers the same rich, smoky, chile-infused meat — without the hours of stovetop-tending.

Hi there, a perpetually tired home chef here. These days my favorite way to feed myself is to order takeout. After hours of working at my computer and juggling all of life’s stuff, the idea of ...