Hello, everyone.
I discovered a few weeks ago that something in my instant pot is broken and so I find myself looking for a replacement. However, I would really like it to be a cooker that isn't an instant pot, as this is the second one I've had break, and it seems every few years or so they make it so that you have to buy a new one if you want to continue cooking with app functionality. Has anyone found any other tools to be accessible? I would prefer that apps be involved as I really don't love the idea of memorizing button combinations and presses through menus, but I am open to this if there's something that works extremely well. I also recall people talking about a pot that talked, which I would also consider, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called and I would strongly prefer an app over this situation.
At this point, I'm even considering tossing in the towel and just getting a straight-forward slow cooker, as this is the function of the instant pot that I used the most, but having the option to do other kinds of cooking was really nice and pressure cooking is quite quick.
From Google, it looks like the main alternative is the ChefIQ, but when I emailed them about accessibility they responded to ask me what went wrong in the cooking process for a cooker I did not yet have--wonderful! Any thoughts or suggestions welcome.