New model
Supra MCS-4531... Cute white and silver floral design
Specifications:Length: 33cm
Width: 26 cm
Height: 22 cm
Cord length: 130cm
Pot volume: 3 liters
Weight: 2400 g (without cord and pan, but with a scoop ring)
Maximum power consumption: 700 W
Keeping warm: yes, up to 24 hours
Delayed start: yes (see the table below)
12 modes (8 automatic): Standard, Fast, Slow Cooker, Soup, Pie (baking), Steamer, Low Rice, Glutinous Rice, Porridge, Baked Rice, Stew, Reheat (see table below). The differences between them are being investigated.
Included there were: a power cord, a warranty card, instructions, a brochure with recipes, plastic: a plate-steamer, a spoon, a ladle, a glass and divisions, a spoon-holder ring.
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front and side views
belly and viscera
valve hole and valve itself (bottom view)
equipment. Steamer with silicone legs.
Visual inspection: the surface of the multicooker is glossy plastic, without burrs and large gaps between the parts, well assembled, the lid is non-removable, quietly and smoothly leans back. The rear legs are rubberized, the power cord is white (which is very nice), it fits into the connector on the case. The buttons are tight - you need to make an effort to press them. A battery powered clock is ticking on the screen. The smell is standard, like from any new technology: a little rubber, a little plastic, but not harsh. On the lid there are silicone gaskets for the pan and valve. The latter is simply stuck into the hole in the lid, it is disassembled for washing, but with great difficulty.
How to disassemble the valve: in the photo "bottom view" you can see two hieroglyphs and an arrow "tudy-syudy", next to the left hieroglyph there is a tiny triangle - turn the large triangle squeezed out on the spherical part of the valve in its direction and pull both parts in different directions. In my valve, the parts fit very tightly to each other, so I had to carefully pry the spherical half in a circle with my nails, twist and pull. While the Big Triangle does not stand opposite the left hieroglyph, the lock will be closed. The lock itself is standard: it consists of L-shaped recesses into which three protrusions enter, located along the perimeter of the valve with a step of 120 degrees (the first protrusion is on the opposite side of the large triangle).
Saucepan inside and outside covered with a black rough non-stick coating, wall thickness 1.5 mm, weight 299 g (+ -1 g). The coating is not scratched with a fingernail, water drops from it. A bowl filled to the brim holds a little over 3000 g of cold water, which corresponds to a volume of 3 liters. On the lateral surface, volume marks are extruded, which do not pretend to correspond to reality. To the lower risk, 500 g of water is poured, to the upper mark about 2200 g of water.
When off, the display shows the current time, when on, the orange backlight comes on. During operation, the indicator "a la bowl" is displayed with a running line of either peas or rice that appears above it. The Delayed start function is implemented through the Preset button as in an alarm clock: you need to set the hours and minutes (in 10 minute increments) by
absolute valuerather than relative. That is, you need to get the porridge by 7:30 in the morning, set it at 7:30, regardless of the current time. If a function is unavailable in the selected mode (for example, delayed start or cooking time), pressing buttons with unavailable functions will be ignored.If in the selected mode it is possible to set the cooking time, the Timer indicator lights up. The settings are reset with the Heat / Off button.
Mode table:
___Mode___ | _____ Delayed_start ___ __ | ___Time for preparing__ _ |
Standard | from 0:00 to 23:50 in 10 min increments | auto |
Quick | no | auto |
Slow cooker | from 0:00 to 23:50 in 10 min increments | from 0:30 to 10:00 in 1 minute steps |
Soup | from 0:00 to 23:50 in 10 min increments | from 0:30 to 4:00 in 1 minute steps |
Pie | no | auto |
Double boiler | from 0:00 to 23:50 in 10 min increments | from 0:30 to 8:00 in 1 minute steps |
Little rice | from 0:00 to 23:50 in 10 min increments | auto |
Glutinous rice | from 0:00 to 23:50 in 10 min increments | auto |
Porridge | from 0:00 to 23:50 in 10 min increments | auto |
Baked rice | no | auto |
Extinguishing | from 0:00 to 23:50 in 10 min increments | from 0:30 to 6:00 in 1 minute steps |
Warming up | no | auto * |
* Warming up - it is either on or not. The display shows 0:00, and then will show the time in hours and minutes since the start of heating.
First run: "Steam cooking" mode.
First, the cooking time cannot be set to less than 30 minutes. Water (3 multi-glasses) boiled after 6 minutes and steam poured out of the valve.
Secondly, when condensate collected in the valve and blocked the holes, the multicooker began to sing! The sounds emitted were very reminiscent of the chirping of birds on the first warm spring day. If you block the steam outlet, then it begins to seep out from under the lid.
Thirdly, the first 10 minutes of work there was a rather unpleasant smell of burnt rubber, but then it disappeared. Now it doesn't seem to smell.
Fourthly, if you inaccurately open the lid, and it opens by pressing the silver button, you will get a cloud of hot steam right on your hand. Just be careful for those who are used to multicooker that opens by the handle on the lid.
Fifthly, when opening the lid, she made a puddle ... there is no water-collecting reservoir, there is only a rim along the upper perimeter of the MB and around the hole for the bowl. The edge of the bowl itself is made without a bend to the bottom (as on ordinary enameled pots), which can, theoretically, lead to the escape of the porridge onto the heating element.
And - most importantly - the countdown begins
at once, and not from the moment the water boils. At the end of the program, there will be three quiet short pee pee.
first turn on and first surprise
Second run: "Porridge" mode.
Buckwheat porridge: 1 multi-glass of cereal = 140 g or about 180 g of water. Poured 2 glasses of cereal and 4 water. The "bowl of peas" icon appears and disappears with an interval of 1-2 minutes, its appearance / disappearance coincides with the clicks of the relay. It's a pity that I didn't notice how long the porridge was cooking, but I noticed that at the end of the program, instead of the clock, a countdown was displayed. At the time of detection, it was 0:05, and the Timer indicator light up above the display. The porridge turned out well boiled, crumbly (not smear), nothing ran away and did not burn. Cools down. During cooking, the multicooker smelled only of porridge.
Third run: Standard mode.
I decided to check how the delayed start works. It was recommended to cook a small amount of cereals on the "Fast" mode, so 1.5 MB-glasses of millet groats and 3 glasses of water (+ salt) went into the pan. Otherwise, we don't have time to eat So, in this mode there is no delay, pressing the buttons did not change anything. Then I chose the "Standard" mode, using the buttons Preset, Hours, Minutes set 7:00. In the morning, after the alarm went off, I ran to the kitchen: the Heat indicator was on and the display was at 0:15. It turns out that MV began to cook, found that there was little porridge and completed the program 15 minutes ahead of schedule. Smart saucepan. The porridge turned out to be normal, but next time I will reduce the amount of water so that it does not boil so much.
Bakery products: Pie mode.
Baked according to your recipe
(Advertising: first time bought in an online store
🔗... The ordering process, the promptness of the response and the speed of delivery were pleasantly pleased Not even 2 days had passed since the MV was brought from a warehouse in Moscow.)