Tefal Multicook, 8-in-1 Multicooker, Slow Cooker, Rice Cooker, Steam, Keep Warm, Browning, Dishwasher Safe Bowl, 8 programmes, 5 Litres, Stainless Steel, 600W, RK302E15

I bought this after a holiday with a friend where I ate 3 meals a day and felt so much better. I came home with all good intentions but soon found myself slipping back into my bad work and eating habits. I work from home so get up and immediately start work. About mid-afternoon I realise I haven't eaten breakfast or lunch and I'm so starved I just throw the quickest thing in the oven and usally don't bother with vegetables. Using the Tefal cooker means I have to plan on using it because meat especially has to be defrosted, it has to be started early before I get hungry. I still skip breakfast but do have brunch after I've prepared dinner and it's cooking. The first thing I tried was the jam sponge cake, now I had no idea how that was going to turn out because I have food allergies and have to use funny flour - a mix of gram (chickpea) and potato starch flour I find works best with normal oven baking. I don't usually use margerine but on this occasion followed the recipe in the book. I was worried that it'd turn out aneamic looking and taste gross like microwaved cakes but it was really nice and it did have a brown crust apart from the top. Even that though didn't look as if it hadn't been cooked as it does in the microwave. Bit of a faff making it because I had to use the electric mixer and my funny flour has a strange consistency and tends to creep up the beaters and end up coating the underside of the mixer. The next thing I tried was a meal - steamed fish, new potatoes and broccoli with a poached egg. I started off the potatoes in the steaming water first and then added the fish, wrapped in foil so it wouldn't make everything taste of fish, egg in a ramekin dish and the broccoli in the steaming basket. The egg and the broccoli was a bit overdone but the fish was just right. I have a tendancy to overcook fish normally. Next time I'll know to do it in 3 stages. The next cake I made using my normal recipe and just hand mixing it, I use sunflower oil instead of margerine and it was perfect and much nicer than the same recipe done in the oven because it was moister but not at all wet. I did try my version of bread but didn't find that worked as well as doing it in the oven, it didn't rise as much, possibly because the Tefal isn't hot to start with. It may have been because a client arrived 10 minutes before it was ready and my poor loaf got left on warm for nearly an hour! So I will have another bash at it because it still tasted ok and toasted fine even if it's not quite the same as oven baked. I've done the farmhouse chicken and also I did a recipe out of the Hamlyns slow cooker recipe book for pork steaks. Both times making double the amount so I could have it heated up again and both times the meal was as nice next day. Wasn't sure about re-heating in the slow cooker but not a problem to end up with one saucepan to wash and that way I could make sure they were heated through quickly and thoroughly. Each time I wanted potatoes with the meal and knew I wouldn't bother if I had to cook them seperately so pre-cooked them a bit using the steamer setting. Saves washing up too being able to do a one pot meal after the initial frying pan to brown the meat etc. Great to have a meal ready when I'm ready for it. Love the fact that it's so easy to clean, much easier than scrubbing stew pots or washing up baking tins. I haven't tried rice yet, I don't eat rice much as I do have a problem with it and only eat it about once a month, normally when my daughter cooks it as I am naff at cooking it and it turns out sticky and overcooked. Hopefully with this I will be able to turn out perfect rice. All in all I'm very pleased with my Tefal cooker, can't say it's made me turn over a new leaf completely but bad habbits creep up on one and breaking them is going to take time.

As soon as i got this beauty home i just had to test it. After the initial very easy set up and a brief browse through the recipe book that came with the product, i settled on the jam sponge using the dessert program. I soon realised once i had started that i had one less egg than the recipe requires but non the less i carried on. Mixed the ingredients, oiled the cooking pot as per instructions and voilà 45 minutes later, the machine beeps to tell me its ready and out pops a PERFECT sponge cake. Suffice to say i was very impressed and once all strawberry jammed up was tested by 8 members of my family who had nothing to say but praise. Now even the mother in law wants one! Later that night i steamed some salmon using the steam basket (all very simple to use) and these came out juicy and delicious. Since then i have also used the slow cooking function. I used a recipe from the book Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook 200 More Slow Cooker Recipes (Irish stew) which was also quite nice. Id also recommend getting Hamlyn All Colour Cookbooks 200 Slow Cooker Recipes aswell. Tomorrow i will be trying a slow cooking recipe from the tefal recipe book, which is surprisingly and unexpectedly quite useful and includes several rice, porridge, other cake and slow cooking recipes and even soup. I really cant praise this item enough. It saves so much space as your not buying a steamer, slow cooker, rice cooker etc. Your buying one item, and one very well made item at that. This is staying permanently on our counter top. When i bought this at its current price of (57.99) is the cheapest price on the internet so is well worth snapping up. 5* **update** Since writing my review iv tried out the 'quick rice' program. After setting the cooker off i checked on it after 20 minutes and the rice was cooked to perfection so i am very pleased with the end result. Also maybe worth mentioning that you get instructions with the product on how to cook all the different types of rice, aswell as bulgur wheat, polenta and quinoa so you get perfection each and every time. I also tried the oatmeal porridge programme to make porridge which was satisfactory, probably due to human error that it wasn't perfect. I'm sure my second attempt will be however. Hope that helps!

Arrivato in un paio di giorni, prodotto perfetto. Nella confezione e' stata in Arrivato in pochissimo tempo, e prima del previsto.Prodotto integro. Nella confezione e' stato persino inserito un adattatore per prese EU, dato che il prodotto arriva dall'Inghilterra e quindi dotato di presa differente dalle nostre. Manuale solo in inglese,come già' riportato nelle recensioni relative al prodotto.Usato subito per fare riso integrale, uscito perfetto! Bisogna seguire le istruzioni alla lettera per avere risultati migliori. Non aggiungere liquidi od ingredienti in più altrimenti si rischia di bruciare tutto o avere brodaglie schifose ! Usato anche per fare porridge, veramente buono! Con il programma di cottura lenta ci ho fatto uno stufato in agrodolce con carote e il goulash..... beh il risultato è stato stupefacente ! La carne esce molto morbida e saporitissima, consiglio di non mettere molti liquidi, o per lo meno non più di quelli indicati nelle ricette perché evaporano pochissimo. Provato anche per fare la polenta e anche per quella i risultati sono stati più che ottimi. Non ancora sperimentato x cottura a vapore e per i legumi. Ottimo aiuto in cucina, si risparmia un sacco di tempo dato che una volta avviato non va curato come una pentola sul fuoco e permette di fare altro nel frattempo. Inoltre può essere programmato e quindi si può avere la cena pronta al rientro dal lavoro ! A me piace un sacco e lo consiglio a tutti quelli a cui piace mangiare bene e sano ma hanno poco tempo da dedicare alla cucina !!,

Great product, good quality & functions well. Highly recommended.

Ottima cuoci riso mi sta risolvendo tanto in termini di perdita di tempo e poi non cucina solo riso ma anche altri alimenti, la consiglio a tutti quelli che hanno sempre i minuti contati , veramente OTTIMA

Il prodotto è arrivato nei tempi stabiliti. Ottimo prodotto, cucina il riso proprio come voglio io!!! Lo consiglierei a chi vuole arrivare a casa con il pranzo o la cena pronta!

E' da diversi giorni che usiamo in casa questa cuociriso ed è veramente un ottimo prodotto. Possibilità di scegliere fra varie tipologie di ingrediente (riso, orzo, farro ecc.) e cotture anche vapore e slow cooker, timer che permette di ritardare la partenza della cottura (non per la modalità slow cooker) e funzione warm per mantenere il riso caldo fino a 24 ore, una volta cotto. Cosa molto importante la padella antiaderente non fa mai attacare il riso cosa che in passato mi succedeva con altri prodotti. Per quanto riguarda la cottura basta variare la quantità di acqua dato che da prodotto a prodotto i tempi di cottura possono variare di molto si tratta solo di fare prove fino a trovare la consistenza desiderata. Manuale e ricettario in inglese ma facilmente comprensibile, adattatore da spina inglese a italiana incluso nella scatola. Unico aspetto negativo la spedizione!! Il prodotto è stato inviato nella sua scatola originale senza alcuna altra protezione e la confezione è arrivata quasi completamente distrutta fortunatamente la cuociriso funzionava però è inammissibile un tale packaging per un prodotto con questo costo.