Thank you for making and enjoying this slow-cooker beef bourguignon, Michele! Extremely happy you enjoyed it, and the subs you made sound perfect for what you had on hand. I hope this helps other readers who also use an insta-pot (I still haven’t tried one, but I need to!).

To answer your question, I always found if I added more than 1 cup of liquid to the slow cooker, the result was quite soupy. In my experience slowcookers really “retain” a lot of water when cooking, and so 2 cups just gave me a good, but undesired result. Does an instapot allow more liquid to escape? Really, that’s the only reason for the difference!

I jmade a double quantity of this in my InstantPot, a day ahead of serving, using twice the amount of meat and vegetable but around the single amount of sauce and bacon (a combo of back bacon and pancetta, as that is what I had). It worked out well. I browned the meat in the Instant Pot, which is time consuming but so worth it at cleanup, and then lightly cooked the vegetables before deglazing. I used pearl rather than ordinary onions, adding them in with the sauce ingredients. A few hours on slow cook with the occasional stir was very easy. I cooked the mushrooms separately and added them when I reheated it to serve the next day.

I am curious about why this recipe calls for less wine (1 cup) than the regular recipe (2 cups), and why it includes celery when the other one does not. (I added 2 cups of wine, for a bit extra liquid, which sadly left less for the cook’s sustenance). Just wondering.

Thank you as always for the tasty and well thought out recipe.

This recipe should double just fine, as long as it will fit inside your slowcooker/crock. The cooking time might also need to be adjusted a bit longer, but you’re doing a slow, day-long cook, there should be no issues there!

Can we double this recipe? Looking for 8 servings.
Thank you.

Amazing, thank you so much! Happy Holidays!

Hi Tim! It is a great question – When adding liquids, the meat should be barely covered; if needed, add more beef stock. I hope this helps!