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I bought an Instantpot in the Boxing Day sales. Anyone have any tips, tricks or recipes they'd care to share?

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I know that what is obscure knowledge is very much culturally relative, but I am still boggling at the idea that there's something particularly revolutionary or clever about using the sodding Skye Boat Song (melody thereof) as the theme tune of a tv series dealing with the '45 and its aftermath.

I mean, all credit to Bear McCreary, the composer for going on to use it in an interesting variety of ways (though the Stevenson poem was deliberately written to fit the metre of the SBS, rather than it being McCreary's idea to put the two together), but still...