In what is being called a merger, Corelle Brands, which owns the Revere Ware brand, but quietly buried it last year, is acquiring Instant Pot maker Instant Brands.
There are a couple of reasons this is considered news with respect to Revere Ware. The first is that, in the news releases and other coverage about the merger, there is no mention of the Revere Ware brand. To date, we haven’t seen any coverage of the quiet demise of Revere Ware, and this is no different.
The second, is that, as we pointed out, the Revere Ware Meal-n-Minutes is somewhat the spiritual precursor of the Instant Pot. The Meal-n-Minutes, which came out in the 80’s, is almost exactly an Instant Pot. This is sort of a full circle for the owners of the Revere Ware brand.
Similar? You be the judge. Instant Pot on top, Meal-n-Minutes on the bottom.
I would have bought a Revere electric pressure cooker IF the insert pot was not coated with unhealthy Teflon. That was the big difference betwixt RW’s Meal-n-Minute versus Instant Pot.
RW Parts, thanks for another great article on arcane vintage RW.
Teflon is a funny thing. We are generally against it, for health reasons, but we have a rice cooker with a Teflon lining we use quite often. Go figure. Rice cookers just don’t work well if they aren’t nonstick so I guess we are willing to make that compromise.
Aroma does an amazing stainless steel rice cooker. We’ve had one for years & it’s a tank. Rice turns out perfect & it’s easy to maintain. It took alot of searching for us to find a reliable stainless steel one (almost 3 years!) & we finally came across the Aroma, we’ve been so happy with it.
I don’t know what their current models are like as ours is about 5 years old now, but we picked up a basic model (no bells & whistles – literally just an “on/ff” switcg) of theirs on Amazon for about $50 CAD$.
Here’s their site: https://www.aromaco.com/category/rice-cookers-multicookers/ Not sure if they currently carry them, if not, you could give them a call to see if they have a vendor list of who still stocks them, or check around online Amazon & other smaller kitchen supply sellers as other places may still stock older models.