Questions to the owners of the multicooker from the one thinking about buying it

- there is no countdown timer (i.e. not all programs show when

The girls found some way to turn it on. I have not tried and do not really remember. Something like the delay timer, press once and then you will see the time remaining. Maybe someone knows about this more precisely and will write.

- there is no spare bowl (one for sweets, another for meat, fat, etc.)

That's why many people eventually buy a second multicooker. What's the use of two bowls and one multicooker if you can cook one dish. And so, put two at once in two multicooker and is free.

[Kitten]

Kitten, this markup came from rice cookers. They are very popular in Japan. And the multicooker is the development of this device. So the markup is a "throwback" left over from the rice cooker Many stumble over these 1.8 liters, I myself did not immediately understand what it was about

The main thing is that you can now enjoy cooking delicious food, and the time that the Multicooker will free up for you

Non-stick bowl - can be washed with a sponge without problems. Does not absorb odors. The valve can, but also easy to clean. After each cooking, I just rinse it with water, very rarely wash it with detergent (this is if soup or rice "ran up" to the valve). And dry open.

Since "+" and "-" are discussed here, I did not really like pilaf - the rice is dry and it seems undercooked. But these are the disadvantages of the recipe given in the instructions. Either another rice or more water can be used. I cooked the soup in stewing mode and it got so "tired" that it looked like jelly. I cook borsch more deliciously in a saucepan. But these are technological nuances that are easy to take into account for the future. I think it is better to cook soups and borscht in the "Baking" mode. There you can bring to a boil and cook not 1 hour (for a light cabbage soup with oatmeal, this is too much), but 30 minutes.
Luckily there is this wonderful site. And all of you members of the forum give such wonderful and equally wonderful advice that everything will work out. The one walking will master the road.
And one more drawback - I don't want to do anything else, just cook something in a slow cooker

[obgorka_gu]

obgorka_gu, is it really more economical on the stove than in the cartoon?
For someone I already counted how much cartoon eats. According to our St. Petersburg electricity prices, we got something about 80 kopecks per hour or even 2 hours of work at the most powerful mode. On heating in general, almost zero, I don't remember exactly.

Oops, foxtrader, sorry! Only now I noticed your question and either I did not understand you or you didn’t read my post carefully, I think that for people who have an electric stove, cartoon and pressure cooker is more profitable. And I still have a gas stove, so as my mom thinks that all this is pampering, I only use it when I bake biscuits (for me, they don't work in the oven) or other recipes that I want to try. So far, I have no real need for a multicooker, since the live one runs (pah-pah-pah) and leaves the kitchen only under light pressure!

lemur, I fully support you. I also have a gas stove, which closes with a lid, which is very convenient. I washed it, closed it and it’s beautiful as a table by the sink. Very comfortably. And in a slow cooker I cook with might and main. Almost three months. But she already spoiled me. Somehow I was baking a curd cake and I had to quickly cook the soup, well, I could not force myself to cook it on the stove! I waited for the cake and with a light heart we made a wonderful soup with a mulechka.While I was waiting, I cut all the ingredients, so this waiting was not a burden. I just really want another extra saucepan. Nataliya

Girls, tell me, do you need to remove the multicooker from the outlet after finishing work, or does it turn off with a button?

My microwave and toaster are always connected, and the Philips combine needs to be turned off by removing the plug from the outlet, and the HP too.

Before pasting new wallpaper in the kitchen, this question arose for me: and not get one more outlet for the future multicooker?

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According to the instructions, the multicooker from the outlet should be turn off... Someone does it (for example, me), someone does not. If you only press the "off" button there, then the menu cursor goes to its (menu) beginning - to cooking buckwheat. And it will remain in this position until you move it to another location or disconnect the MV from the network.

My HP (and in the future also MV) is plugged into an extension cord with a button, after cooking I turn off the button, is it considered that I turned off the device or should I still turn it off from the outlet?

It looks like your extension cord with a button is a surge protector. If you turn it off with a button, you can be calm. In a multicooker, it is easy to determine whether it is disconnected from the network: the menu cursor disappears and does not point to buckwheat.

Well, I don’t know, I’m unlikely to find cons in my cartoon, but the benefits in bulk.

So it came in handy in nature. All this week we were sitting in the woods in the houses at the camp site near Chernigov. The base is old, a hundred years old without repair, there is almost no gas, but there is electricity. We took the risk of taking the cartoon with us, and it was right. In the evening, they threw everything into it, early in the morning, before fishing or going into the forest for mushrooms, they put on a timer, and opla - after fishing / mushrooms, delicious pilaf awaits us. Then we put the soup, and on the beach. Everything is ready for the return. Etc. In short, it's great that she made life in nature easier for us.

At first I wanted to buy a double boiler, and then I saw the cartoon and caught fire with this miracle of technology. Here's just a question: I read about a double boiler that it soars when cooking, but how is a slow cooker?

that it soars when cooking, but how is a slow cooker?

With a multicooker in the "Steam cooking" mode, steam comes out of the valve, if that is what is meant. It turns out quite intensively and therefore it is not recommended to put a working multicooker under very low shelves.

The disease to have 2 slow cookers, after a while turns into the disease "I want three!" Since I did not find any shortcomings in the toons for 1.5 years of merciless exploitation, they bought a third. And again they went to Khabarovsk for her. In our city, the prices have been lifted, already high at 8400 ... The pig's screeching about the merits of the cartoons has not passed for me, therefore, I infect the Panasonic multi-men with future mothers (we ourselves are expecting a new fan of the multicooker). Always a well-fed family without problems - this is happiness !!! I remember how difficult it was with the baby to cook delicious without multi, and I am not overjoyed that now take care of this magic pot !!!!

The main disadvantage is that one multicooker is NOT enough !!! And the prices for it now, oh, how they bite. I understand that this is the fault of everyone who has this wonderful pot. After all, no one hid from friends and acquaintances what progress had reached, everyone boasted. Even my husband advertises it (although TAAK is far from the kitchen!) But those who wish cannot find a multicooker even at increased prices. Therefore, whoever has the opportunity, do not even hesitate !!!

My son-in-law told an interesting story on his last visit. He studies in Moscow at the university and lives in a hostel. Our first cartoon went with him. So, all the neighbors do not cease to come in and wonder at its capabilities, and in general they learn about such a miracle for the first time (in fact, we all went through it here). Naturally, such a valuable unit is in his room and cooks there. But recently, during the renovation in the hostel, they sent him to bring something from the 12th floor, where exclusively Chinese live, and he even told me about this in a boggle.There, the Chinese have ten of these wonderful pots in the COMMON kitchen, and this does not shock anyone.

At one time, I also strongly doubted the purchase of a multicooker, convincing myself that it was like a hare a stop signal to me: we live with my husband alone, and the time is not very limited, and the oven-stove is good. But now I do not regret a single gram !! There are only a few things that really make life easier: this is an automatic washing machine, a cartoon and a dishwasher ... To everything else, whatever one may say, hands are needed, but here you are laid and free ...
Regarding the size, take a large one, it is not worth the savings in order to purchase a 2-liter pan. Would want broth for future use, for example .. or boil a tongue of an attractive size, or make jelly, but you never know ???
The fact that heating greatly impairs the quality of food, to be honest, I noticed only in porridge, but there is a timer. It’s just porridge, when it’s heated for a long time, at first, it really steams, "rebukes", and then it becomes dryish .. But even here there is a way out - initially lay a little more liquid than required. The soups are excellent, all the stews are excellent too ..
And meat, any and for any method of cooking, must be washed well ... this is an axiom! Where did it lie, what ax was it used for, what cleanliness of the conveyor belt did it move? - it's not even discussed !!! But ideally washed meat will have "foam". "Foam" is a curdled protein, there is no harm from it, and there is no problem to remove a thin film from the side of the saucepan. You won't go to bed or run away a second after you put food in the CF, will you? We put it down and after 15-20 minutes came up, removed the foam. and then they were completely closed ...

[Aunt Besya]

and time is not strongly limited

Aunt Besya, which is why I have a crush on the slow cooker. Well, look for yourself. I come home after the store - at six or half past six. If the lamb is in tomato sauce or something. While frying, while cutting the meat, it's already about 11 hours. I carcass lamb in a slow cooker for 4-5 hours. That is, she is ready by three or four in the morning. And heated for three hours. It's the same story with soups.

And with a slow cooker it should turn out like this. At 11 o'clock in the evening I threw it at 12 o'clock. At 11 o'clock in the morning it is ready, 2 hours on heating. And there my daughter comes from school. My daughter will turn it off, shift it if necessary (I doubt that such a bowl will fit into my refrigerator) and throw the bowl itself into the dishwasher.

But oatmeal in the morning is definitely a slow cooker. And the tongue / jellied meat is a pressure cooker. Baking (excluding honey cake and curd puddings) - oven.

In short, meat - soups in a slow cooker, I do not fit into turns on weekdays ...

Dear multicooker owners, please clarify your questions:
1. Does the multicooker beep at the end of the cooking program and before switching to preheating mode?
2. A timer in a multicooker is an opportunity to postpone the start of a cooking program so that it turns on and cooks the dish at the time you need, well, for example, like in a bread maker, or is it an opportunity to set the cooking time yourself, for example, a very long stewing of meat?

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2. The timer in the multicooker is an opportunity to postpone the start of the cooking program. To set the time of long stewing, there is a separate button "Cooking time" - by pressing it, you can set the stewing time from 1 hour to 12 hours, baking from 20 minutes to 65 minutes, steaming from 1 minute to 1 hour.

A little clarification on point 2. The timer can be used only in 3 automatic programs (Buckwheat, Pilaf and Milk porridge). The cooking time cannot be adjusted in them. But in 3 other programs (Baking, Steaming and Stewing), the opposite is true - the cooking time is set independently, BUT you cannot postpone the start, that is, use the timer.

I will repeat about the main "minus": there is no indication of the remaining time until the end of the program.
No, I understand that the microprocessor itself decides how much to cook for, but he, such a radish, could spend a couple of milliwatts of electricity to display the time! Well, let him adjust the time during the program, but you can display this too!

And there is also one "minus" - the lack of an assortment of these multicooker.
SR-TMH10 and SR-TMH18 ... That's pretty much it.
But we could have made a cartoon and more dimensions, providing a deeper bowl for steaming in it or making it two-story (or composite: if you want - deep, if you want - two-story).
Like with one device "killing" a couple of fat "hares": for lovers of steam food, and for lovers of stew.
Such a cartoon would be snapped up! And no one would have doubts: a double boiler or a cartoon?

One of the girls said that if you press the timer once on the program for buckwheat, pilaf, porridge before starting, you will see the time remaining on the display. I sometimes do this to estimate how long it will take to cook.

Peace be with you bakers!
I don't know if this can be attributed to the minuses
the multicooker in my family works seven days a week
the most popular is chicken in different types
pork ribs, shank or just something like frying
lately liked the meat from the maggi for the second \ this is in which
add cream \ in short, as you understood, everything is from meat \ poultry
etc
since the kitchenette is small, the appliances are washed after use
and on the mezzanine or in the closet \ in the five-story buildings of some series there is
klodovki \ until next time
so on the copper I was going to indulge in porridge and took out a slow cooker
opened and ... a persistent smell of all previously prepared
meats and a bouquet of spices, but so thick that at least take a spoon
eat, but it seems like we rinse everything and the pan and the valve will certainly
thoroughly after each use
no, of course, the porridge turned out as always with a bang, but even after that
how the bowl was washed and the multicooker itself was wiped the smell of meat
and spices are not missing
of course, this is not terrible, but does plastic so absorb the smell

I will repeat about the main "minus": there is no indication of the remaining time until the end of the program.

Well, actually, you can deceive the device and force it to show the remaining time - this is not my advice, read on the Good Kitchen forum. You must first press the selected program (pilaf, milk porridge or buckwheat) and then press the timer button 1 time and only then the start button. And then the display will countdown!

I want to buy a multicooker for a long time. more than a year.

- the third option is rather doubtful that I will cook in it in the evening upon arrival from work. completely all cooking in it will take 3 hours versus 1.5 hours at the stove. my husband will kick me out of the house along with this slow cooker.
Thank you for understanding

I also want a cartoon for 3 months already, I am also confused by the non-removable lid and heating after cooking. The question is, if I'm at home, can I turn off the heating or not?

and the valve will certainly
thoroughly after each use
no, of course, the porridge turned out as always with a bang, but even after that
how the bowl was washed and the multicooker itself was wiped the smell of meat
and spices are not missing
of course, this is not terrible, but does plastic so absorb the smell

You know, most of all, the smell remains in the valve and a little on the lid. But this does not affect the taste and smell of the next dish in any way. Ie.
if you cook milk porridge after pilaf with seasonings, then the milk porridge will not smell and smell of pilaf. And you?

[Hairpin!]

And do not be embarrassed There is no active boiling, so the lid is not splashed from the inside, it is enough to simply wipe it with a damp cloth. There is no dirt in the valve either, but it is also removable. Heating turns on and off with one click !!
Hairpin!, I agree completely, considering that you come home from work at 6 pm !!! And in the morning to work again ...I just have a free schedule, moreover, I know in advance when and where I need to, respectively, I can plan !!

The lid of the multi simply does not need to be tightly closed when you remove it, as any dishes "suffocate" from the smells of food. put a piece of paper and close the lid so that there is fresh air all the time

I always take the valve out of the multicooker when it's idle. It dries well and ventilates.

I don’t cook soups with a delayed start .. I cook on stewing so that there is no foam I throw the meat into the already hot water, then the protein curls immediately and the broth is almost clean, in short, I don’t remove the foam, although I have nothing against the foam, it’s useful. I don’t drain the first broth from the meat .. how much salt is the squirrel .. I soak the meat from all sorts of nasty things, it seems to me so much better. I can only drain the bone, knowing that I did not have time to soak.

So there are proven recipes,

I looked at the baking recipes, I found out that mostly people make baked goods in a small multi and, accordingly, indicate the time for baking for a small one. And for a big multi you need to recalculate time somehow?

In my opinion, the opposite. The recipes are mostly for the big one. I convert to my little time by multiplying by 1.5. and there already in the course of the play.

Girls, on the forum there are those among you who indicate that they are buying for adult children-students for use in the dormitory and CF. I have a question for them (or rather, for the multivar students themselves): Is there a strong smell in the living room when the CF is working? I have similar conditions, of course, when baking bread in HP, there is a slight aroma, when using a double boiler, there is steam? What awaits me when using CF in a living room?

What awaits me when using CF in a living room?

When extinguishing, a faint smell. In short, tolerable ...

TMV - old model, with a gray-coated saucepan;
TMN - a new model with a different valve design and a black saucepan coating

Yes, and soups are not usually cooked one and a half liters each.

And there is not half a liter ... If for good, then one and a half. If for bad - then two ... If you take a bowl of soup ... three hundred grams, then on average six plates. If there are two adults, then three times, if three, then two. How can you eat the same soup more than three times? Not interested. I would even say dangerous. A guy can run away. And then what? Then you will definitely need a little one !!!

For me, the disadvantage was that the MV valve is located just above the cord. I can't turn to the wall and to the outlet, because steam is beating thickly into the kitchen cabinet above the table. Turn it "towards the forest in front", that is, with the control panel facing the wall and put it on almost on the edge of the table. For the same reason, I cannot put it to the hood - the cord will heat up if the gas is turned on. In general, she does not have a permanent place of work, although there is enough space on the tables - choose any!

bought a slow cooker
really good, she's very unhappy
1.potted rice porridge
2.Chicken in sour cream - some kind of tasteless turned out
3.cottage cheese casserole-vkkuchny, but the top turned out ugly ...

A slow cooker is a saucepan that you put in it will cook. The rice is burnt, read the topic about it, you need to add water, the roof is not beautiful - but no one promised, this is not an oven, the chicken is not tasty - I repeat, the saucepan will not add taste. she will only cook. try this recipe (exactly) to make in the oven and in the cartoon at the same time, then compare. It is possible that the mode was not chosen correctly.
Good luck in learning.

[about]

Personally, I bought a slow cooker after I visited one of the sites on the Internet with the same name and saw Thuabout people cook in it !!! I'm just happy that I came across these photos, recipes and joined the owners of multicooker. It is something! The creators of this unit themselves could not even think about it. You take a look at the recipes and then you will understand whether you need it.
From myself I will say that in terms of importance, the multicooker is in second place for me after the washing machine.

It is undesirable to open the MB on automatic programs - the temperature and cooking time will be lost.

They bought me a cartoon as a New Year's gift, I fell in love with it these days and I think that it is simply necessary in the kitchen, because it frees up a lot of time that can be spent with your children. Fresh porridge in the morning is not happiness! I've already fed everyone with cakes. And what a delicious chicken! Who else is thinking, buy!

Oh, while I was walking, everyone answered ... On my own behalf, I have biscuits, in the full sense of the word, began to turn out only in the cartoon. Another interesting observation: in a small one they are better for me than in a big one ... Since I do it with handles alone, you cannot write off the hook handles ..... And at the expense of cooking: one potato on pilaf mode is worth what, about meat and the chicken in its own juice generally keep quiet. One drawback: I personally have + 3 kg in the first month of purchasing the first multi ... But I myself am to blame, I like to have fun, especially to eat
P.S. I work on myself, I dump the overwork)))

and I, too, for a month soon as the owner of the multicooker, my beloved husband gave me almost six months, it took me to convince him that this is a useful Thing
I can cook like that .. conditionally, that's why this new assistant of mine helps me a lot now ..
(yes, and one more thing - we decided to change our diet a little, so to speak for a "healthier" one, we gave up sausages, sausages, coffee, fried .. in short .. I mean that now we can eat steamed, stewed all sorts of things, it turned out to be quite tasty)
I couldn't cook fish before, hands seem to grow from the wrong place, and now steamed salmon is our favorite dish, also healthy
stewed or roasted vegetable stew is also now one of the main ones, which we are very happy about
baking really is not working yet, but it's not scary, Mulya will always help, if anything
and my favorite milk porridge !!! I love them so much, but before I didn’t have enough patience to follow them, but now the thrill !! fell asleep, poked a button and went about his business class !!

why, to everyone who has already thought about this thing, then stop thinking, take it, you will not regret

yes, and by the way I have a little cartoon, but for two of us it turned out to be enough

There is no way to cook such a delicious porridge on the stove, which is obtained in a multicooker.
My whole family got hooked on porridge.
And free time ....... Who would have thought?

Do not even have to doubt who does not like to stand at the stove and who does not have time for this - buy a cartoon !! All summer I was looking for a cartoon in Moscow, for my son, a student, a first-year student, prices in online stores (Moscow) with self-pickup are at least 6 thousand. with kopecks, -not bought. I came home, bought it (I saw it much cheaper, I could not pass by), I use it for 2 months, I know, will come for the holidays in February - I will give it with ready-made and tested recipes, and, I understand, I will have to buy it myself !!! Home, at sea, at the dacha is a necessary thing. Cons (except for the overpriced) - I do not see! YES, food from the multicooker is dietary, nothing will burn or run away !! ++

[puel]

puel
It saves the cartoon very much.
Today I had to cook dinner and I had to go to the meeting.
I loaded the cartoon, stuck it in, left, arrived, and hot lazy stuffed cabbage rolls are waiting for me. I wouldn't leave it on the stove.

In-In!
I'll put porridge for the morning tonight!
And I'll go to sleep in peace. My porridge almost always runs away. Here I am so disheveled And so I stopped cooking it in the morning. And now (hurray hurray hurray)
I’ll have a human breakfast, not sandwiches ...

And I already, a sinful thing, began to think about the second cartoon. Every time I rejoice at her, but I also once doubted ..
There has never been such delicious pickle soup, borscht ... just stewed. Today I made pike perch stewed in cream with vegetables, well, it's just some kind of nyama !!!

Hello, I've been using cartoons for a couple of months.I wanted to tell my opinion for those thinking about buying.
at first I really didn’t like it — I cooked chicken in my own juice with potatoes. here everyone praises this recipe, the chicken was with a fried crust (but not like in a frying pan), but inside like boiled, the potatoes were stewed. conclusion, my husband and I like it more in the frying pan. then the porridge got even more upset, it burned, it turns out that during the cooking process it still needs to be stirred and the cooking time is very long, on the stove much faster. I wondered again why I needed it. cooked a cottage cheese casserole, everything seems to be delicious, but it turned out ugly. and the beauty of the dish is also part of the success))
then I didn’t trample her for a long time, disappointed in her and cursing that I had ordered it for myself.
then I started to try, cooked the soup, great! but again, 1.5 hours long. but threw it in and forgot :) cooked manti, pilaf, steamed cutlets, great. so now I am satisfied. I just understand that we just don't like some of the dishes, not because it's not tasty, but because of our preferences in food
I took this saucepan mainly to put my daughter's porridge in the evening, but for now I'm afraid I'm cooking small portions and I still have to watch it, it's a shame, of course. so now I advise my friends, but with a reservation. not the fact that you will like all the food from there)
but you will still choose dishes from which you will be delighted
advise
give 5 points
just in case, I bought it in Eldorado, there are still a lot of them in the media market

I constantly cook porridge in milk and water, never burned. I also found chicken tastier in the oven. I've only had a cartoon for a month, but I'm very happy with it. I bake cakes very often.

Peace be with you bakers!
mailgor about cereals, be it milk or water, I agree with you completely at least for the night, at least immediately run the result on 5
the only thing that needs to be done is to adjust the liquid-to-grain ratio
with meat dishes, you also need to get used to my oven with a grill
so if in decreasing order then grill-cartoon-frying pan-oven
I tried to do chicken in x \ n - good, but sorry for the stove
and the meat with mayonnaise, according to the general opinion of my eaters in the cartoon, is beyond competition
and what kind of liver it turns out like so burp like pate

I have been dreaming of a cartoon for a year now! And now - it happened !!! Next week they should bring) I have a question - if you make a side dish in a saucepan, and fish on top - the smell of fish goes beyond the multi? This is very important for me, because I am allergic to any fish, even to the smell, and there are fish lovers in the family who go to their grandparents to fish))

I think it will come out ...