![]() ![]() ![]() And if you connect it to the Tefal app, you can monitor the progress of your cooking from another room while you relax with a G&T, safe in the knowledge that your own personal chef is slogging away in the background. Aside from its pressure cooking prowess, this multicooker also steams and stir fries. Though its bowl has a capacity of just six litres, the Cook4me Touch has a useable capacity of four litres which means it’s a good size for two-to-four people and up to six if making a stew. Simply call up a recipe of your choice and follow the step-by-step instructions for both prepping and cooking. ![]() Impressively, it even allows you to search a recipe in three ways: starter, main course and dessert length of cooking time or, best of all, by the ingredients available in your fridge. This handsome pressure multi cooker features an interactive water-resistant touchscreen interface that lets the user select from over 150 10-minute recipes. The Tefal Cook4me Touch is quite costly but then it's more like having a personal chef than a mere cooking device. Similarly, the risotto setting turned out something way more palatable than expected but it is still a very weird way to make a risotto.Īlthough multicookers of this nature seem daunting at first, the Sage was very easy to get a handle on once we’d actually started using it. Granted, it didn’t produce the type of flaky rice we expected even after following the manual’s recipe, but it did produce an exceptional beef stew, meltingly tender beef short ribs and a pretty good massaman curry, considering that we used the pressure cooker, which isn't how we'd usually do it. It will also whip up a yogurt if required. In typical Sage fashion, the 6-litre Fast Slow Go comes with a host of pre-programmed one-touch settings for a variety of ingredients – soup, stew, rice, risotto, soup, beans, meats, etc – and provides the option to either pressure cook, slow cook or keep warm. Sage wades into the multicooker battleground with a considerable update on its popular Fast Slow Pro model. Rice and risotto programmes are slightly iffy If you’re after an Instant Pot-branded multicooker that’s reasonably priced and commendably efficient, you can’t go wrong with this one of these three variants. Soup, Meat/Stew, Bean/Chili, Rice, Porridge and so on, as well as Manual control means you’re able to tailor the Instant Pot to produce your favourite recipes with little in the way of manual labour. This is wonderfully simple to use, with nine main smart programs that allow you to quickly select popular food cooking options. We're big fans of the yoghurt-making function too.Ĭentral to operation is the main control panel on the front of the appliance. While it's possible to whip up rice (not the best rice it has to be said), or steam anything you fancy, you can also slow cook food or use the warmer function to keep dishes on standby ready for serving. The 3-litre version reviewed here is one of the most popular for couples and soloists and can be used to tackle any kind of cooking task alongside being a pretty awesome pressure cooker. The 9-in-1 Instant Pot Duo comes in three different sizes – 3-Litre (3 quartz), 5.7-Litre (6 quartz) and 8-Litre (8 quartz) – and is perhaps the most 'classic' Instant Pot and the model Amazon sells in high quantities. A lot of people enjoy their health benefits, compared to getting takeways or ready meals, and in many cases I would say they’re aimed at people who either can’t cook very well or don't have time to.įor the sake of simplicity, we will mostly use the term multi cooker when describing any of these amazing products, whether they’re made by Ninja, Sage, Tefal or anyone else. Although obviously we'll call the ones made by Instant Pot, Instant Pots. Some models can also air fry and steam fry and even bake cakes. Instant Pots and multi cookers are mostly aimed at those who enjoy the speed and convenience of pressure cooking and steaming. It's like when we all called every vacuum cleaner a ‘hoover’, much to the chagrin of Hoover.Īn Instant Pot-style multi cooker is basically an electrically-powered table-top multi-cooker that performs a variety of cooking methods from pressure cooking and steaming to sautéing and slow cooking. Nevertheless, since Instant Pot owns the rights to the name, other manufacturers use the term multi cooker (or multicooker) when advertising their wares. As a result, the name ‘Instant Pot’ has almost become a generic term among consumers, especially when searching for said product on the internet. As noted, many other manufacturers have 'paid homage', let's say, to the Instant Pot and made me-too products. A radical reworking of the humble hob-top pressure cooker, Wang’s invention continues to sell under the same brand name. According to the internet, which is never wrong, the Instant Pot brand was started in 2009 by a Canadian gent called Robert Wang. ![]()
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