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The Best Multicooker for Your Money

If you’ve surfed the internet during the past five years, you’ve probably heard of the Instant Pot. When we tested multicookers a few years ago, the company’s main model, the Duo, excelled at pressure cooking, but it wasn’t powerful enough to slow-cook well (the chunks of beef in the stew made in it were still tough and chewy 11 hours later). Instead, we named the Zavor LUX LCD 8 QT Multi-Cooker and the GoWISE USA 8-Quart 10-in-1 Electric Pressure Cooker/Slow Cooker our favorites; they were adept at both pressure- and slow-cooking food, they browned foods well, and they were easy to use.

Over the past few years, multicookers have undergone some big changes, so we wondered if the Zavor and GoWISE models were still the

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