Hello, members of the forum and members of the forum!
Already 3 weeks as I am the owner of this wonderful device!
Remarkably, it came with a firm intention to buy Panasonic, but the seller somehow miraculously convinced me ... And I became the owner Polaris PMC 0517AD, which I regretted so far only once (there is really no delayed start on a multi-cook, this is a fact)!
In all other respects, there is no limit to my delight: the pot really cooks!
Before cooking, I re-read almost all the pages of this topic, thanks a lot to everyone for advice, reviews, recipes, etc. The post turned out to be long, but maybe it will be useful for someone.
Some time has passed, and now I am ready to share my personal impressions.
The first is appearance. The design is "space", I liked it very, very much. Everything is convenient, the menus and buttons are all intuitive, I even opened the instructions once and took them away. The only drawback is that it infuriates you to flip through all 16 programs in a circle if you skip the one you need. A saucepan (bowl) with handles is great, I can't even believe that most models don't have these same handles - how inconvenient it must be to use ... It is easy to clean, everything is easy to open, close, and fasten. The cups for yoghurt are comfortable and cute, the spoon is comfortable, but the purpose of the flat spatula with pimples is not entirely clear to me, I use my own wooden ones. The spoon holder, IMHo, is also not needed. A bowl with a ceramic coating - nothing burns (only the biscuit stuck to the side walls, you still need to lubricate the bowl), it is washed with just one movement of the hand. I treat it with care and hope that it will last a long time.
The second is the actual cooking. I'll tell you about what I tried.
Yoghurts: natural activia without additives per 1 liter of 6% milk - 8 hours on the "yogurt" mode - and the output is a wonderful thick yogurt (3.2% also tastes good, but more liquid). It tastes like the very active a little sour (I like it, especially with fruits, jam, syrup, etc.). You can also take yogurt "activia light sweet" - it makes a more delicate and sweetish yogurt. But so far I have only got it on sale once, and even then by accident. In general, these homemade yoghurts are now tightly included in our diet with my husband, and I also treat my mother (she also really likes it). I am very glad that I had not been tempted to buy a yogurt maker out of laziness before - she would have stood there and gather dust somewhere.
Porridge: tried almost everything on my menu. I love thinner, so I take a lot of milk (about 1: 4 for "quick porridge" such as oatmeal or instant millet porridge (Nordic), 1: 5-6 for slowly boiling cereals such as rice or ordinary millet (with raisins). haven't tried it yet.
I cook everything in milk porridge mode (nothing ran away, only rice one tried - the lid was stained). I cooked Nordic oatmeal and millet for about 10 minutes, then heated it up as it turned out - I threw everything in the night before and set up the cooking for about morning awakening. If the heating does not last long (10-20 minutes), then super, if longer, then the porridge is thick and slightly baked from below.
I cooked rice for longer, 30-40 minutes, millet for about an hour - but this is not on the timer, but directly in the morning on the weekend, so you could drop in, interfere, try and evaluate the degree of readiness.
I somehow forgot about the "oatmeal" mode, and still have not tried it.
Omelettes. My husband adores them, and so do I now. Mix a couple of eggs, about the same amount of milk with a mixer (you don't need to beat too much), and then there is plenty of room for imagination ... You can immediately add salt to the slow cooker for "baking" for 20 minutes. You can add all sorts of aromatic spices. You can cut hunting sausages or some other ones to the bottom and fry for a couple of minutes, you can add medium-sized chopped bell peppers and a tomato instead or then to the sausages, then pour the egg with milk (again, do not forget the spices). You can sprinkle with grated cheese on top, or you can mix everything together. I never liked thick "dining" omelets, so I don't chase after thick, but these are tender, thin and airy.
Casseroles... This is my weakness. Recipe: 1 pack of curd mass with raisins or dried apricots, 1 pack of low-fat cottage cheese + 1 egg + a couple of tablespoons of table flour without a slide + vanillin, cinnamon (if desired). The casserole will turn out to be small, all ingredients can be doubled. Mix well with a mixer (for lovers of fluffy casseroles, you can add baking powder), and bake in a slow cooker for 20-30 minutes. You can beautifully lay out the apple slices on top in a circle. Or you can (if not lazy) bake for 20 minutes on one side, and then turn it over with a double boiler and bake on the other side. It is also very tasty to mix some sweet and sour berries into such a casserole (I had a mixture of red and black currants) - very aromatic and piquant.
Soups. I love thick and rich. So far I have tried cheese (this one practically ran away from me, if I were not in the kitchen at that moment!), Pea, bean. In my opinion, the taste of the soup from the stove did not differ much, here the bonus is only the convenience of cooking (immediately and frying, for example, and the soup itself is prepared in one container). And there is no need to follow (cheese does not count for now, we will experiment), there is a timer, you do not need to worry about anything. I'll make a reservation right away that, in my opinion, soup is a responsible and unhurried business. Therefore, I will definitely remove scale, add ingredients in a certain sequence, use a blender, etc. Neither I nor my family will eat a brew like “threw frozen meat, some vegetables, closed the lid and turned on the cartoon for 2 hours”.
Bakery products. Here I was very pleasantly surprised. For a long time I could not make up my mind, it was scary)) And the day before yesterday I finally baked a biscuit. The recipe is an old family one, proven over the years: 5-6 eggs (depending on the size of these same eggs), a glass of sugar, beat carefully with a mixer for 10 minutes. Then slowly add flour in small portions, stirring it all with a tablespoon. Flour is also exactly a glass. Then all this into a greased form and into the oven. Mom's biscuits turned out just fine, there is something to compare.
I also made my own dough. I didn't grease the bowl at all - I decided to test the magic non-stick properties. In vain - he still got baked on the sides, it was difficult to get it out, but the bottom was baked perfectly. The “baking” mode is 50 + 30 minutes, much longer than in the oven, but everything was baked perfectly, the dough turned out to be tender and airy, the biscuit rose more than 2 times. Made a wonderful bounty cake with cream (butter, condensed milk, powdered coconut milk), impregnated with coconut liqueur and almonds.
There are still stewing and attempts to bake homemade bread and pizza ahead. If everything works out, then there will be no limit to my delight.
As a conclusion, I can say that I am very pleased with the purchase and (with all my previous indifference to cooking!), It seems, I fell in love with the cooking process. I chose the multicooker precisely for its versatility, and my expectations were fully justified!