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

immediately came to mind the undoubted + multicooker: the ability to instruct my husband to boil milk and not get a burnt product in the end.

In a new one, on baked goods, the lid is heated, but in the old one, no. And the coating of the new saucepan seems to me better than in the old one, although at the beginning it seemed to me the opposite.

I also think that the coating in the new one is better, even in my opinion the valve in the new cartoon absorbs odors less due to the fact that the rubber membrane was removed there.

After cooking, the valve in the new multicooker is almost odorless. I wash it and leave it open to dry, after that it does not smell. I have already scratched the saucepan a little, although I use it very carefully.

The advantages of a multicooker can be enumerated for a long time. But so far I have found only one drawback: there is no display backlight. You have to peer into it. Not too annoying of course, but still.
And I would also like a pot more. And then jellied meat or soup painfully ends quickly ...

So after cooking, when closed, of course, it heats up from the temperature inside the saucepan, and next time you pay attention to whether the lid will warm up on the baking if you do not close it.

No, it heats up by itself with the lid open.

[navy]

navy, checked, warms up and open, fried carrots with an open roof on purpose.

But in the newly purchased mult, the valve is of a different design and shape. And this plus it is easier to wash.

Found one drawback. The signal beeps loudly, wakes up the sleeping child. Although the bedroom from the kitchen is across two corridors. But this minus will touch very few.And the pluses are unspeakably greater and I love my cartoon dearly

I tried to figure out the functionality, the pros and cons of airfryer, multicooker and simple steamer. I read the references, looked here on the forum. It turned out not very many questions remained.
I already have a bread maker at home, an ordinary microwave oven and a decent oven (with a delayed start and stop timer, different functions, makes an excellent grill). First of all, it lacks the ability to steam. The rest of the functions, such as making yoghurts, fresh cereals for breakfast, soups for dinner, are also interesting, but I'm not sure that we will constantly use them.
I have several questions, I apologize if I did not carefully study the question, but, please tell me:
1) Is the very principle of cooking food in aero-grills, multicooker and conventional oven different or the same? That is, I read that airfryer uses halogen radiation or something like that ... How do different ways of influencing food affect the speed and quality of processing?
2) Is it possible to cook, for example, meat, fish in a multicooker / airfryer without oil? But not when stewing or steaming. How then will the dish turn out in a multicooker and airfryer? Roasted and crispy, like an oven grill, or soft?
3) If we take the most sophisticated models, which is more multifunctional: a multicooker or an airfryer? I suspect that it is an airfryer, but I do not mean by advertising brochures, but by your personal experience. What can be used more often in everyday life?
4) I read about the function of hot and cold smoking in aero grills. But, as far as I understand, this is all done with a liquid smoke? Or is it possible somehow?
5) Is it possible to dry in an airfryer, if someone tried it, how long does it take? how do you get?
6) Is it possible to make yoghurts in a multicooker?
7) Did I understand correctly that these devices have the same recipe principle as in most bread makers? That is, you cannot deviate from the recipes. And the soup, for example, will it be possible to cook 2 liters of current in a multicooker, and not 1.5?

After reading all the questions again (but I almost did not touch my doubts here), I think it might be better to use an ordinary double boiler ...
Thank you all in advance for your help in choosing!

[the choice is yours.]

I tried to figure out the functionality, the pros and cons of airfryer, multicooker and simple steamer. I read the references, looked here on the forum. It turned out not very many questions remained.

These are all different devices. And this topic has already been discussed so much on the forum ...

Look again here, and the choice is yours.

Recipes section "Multicooker"
https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=510.0

"+" and "-" multicooker.
https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=6719.0

About multicooker cooking
https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=6718.0

Multicooker-pressure cooker
https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=2924.0

Convection oven
https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=194.0

Necessary and not very kitchen appliances
https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=137.0

Good day everyone! Ordered a multicooker, I'm sitting in anticipation of her arrival and then the mother-in-law puzzled with the question - is it possible to bake pies from the classic yeast dough in a multicooker? I have not seen such recipes for a multicooker

Read about everything you can cook in a slow cooker
You can make yeast dough, but they will not be classic pies from the oven

Hello dear hostesses!
Yesterday I became the proud owner of a Panasonic multicooker. I studied the instructions all evening.
There were several questions, I would like to get an answer from experienced housewives.
Question 1. How can you cook steamed cereals in a multicooker ??? a container for cooking with large holes, I'm afraid that everything will spill out
Question 2. On the forum, I read that the multicooker turns itself off after cooking, but in my instructions it is written that it turns off and itself becomes heated, but this is inconvenient if you put on cooking and left home for a few hours, how to be in in that case?
Question 3. Why should the multicooker be unplugged after each use? i.e. (unplug)
Tell me please!!!

I only have multi for the second week ...

2. It is not put on heating forever, but only for a while (it seems, an hour), then it should turn itself off.

3. This is also a mystery to me. I don't turn it off myself, and I don't give it to my husband. If you pull the plug like that every time, it won't last long ...

IMHO

It is put on heating not for an hour, but for 12 hours. (In my opinion, so, read the instructions again.) And it is better to turn it off from the network so that the poor cartoon does not stand in constant readiness to start cooking buckwheat. It is not necessary to pull the cord. You can, holding the outlet with your left hand, carefully disconnect the cartoon from the network with your right hand for the plug.

Question 1. How can you cook steamed cereals in a multicooker ??? a container for cooking with large holes, I'm afraid that everything will spill out
Question 2. On the forum, I read that the multicooker turns itself off after cooking, but in my instructions it is written that it turns off and itself becomes heated, but this is inconvenient if you put on cooking and left home for a few hours, how to be in in that case?
Question 3. Why should the multicooker be unplugged after each use? i.e. (unplug)
Tell me please!!!

I will try to answer;
1. Why steamed cereals? It is better to cook cereals on the buckwheat or milk porridge program. It can be steamed, but I don't think it will be tasty. Take a piece of foil, put it in a basket for steam, make sides, but so that steam can still pass through the side of the foil, and then put cereal in the foil and pour a little water. Water in a saucepan.
2. Rejoice, this is a very convenient function, especially if you have left and something is being cooked or stewed there. They came, and a hot dinner awaits you. And the programs on the left can generally be set on the timer, the food will be ready when your darling wishes.
3. Why keep it in constant readiness? Just like a bread maker, it is better to unplug it from the outlet and, of course, without pulling the cord, but this is the rule for all electrical appliances.
Good luck. And look here 🔗, you will see how many dishes you can make in this wonderful pot!

Trample!
Cartoon fries longer than a frying pan, but you can use it when you don't have time to stand at the stove and you need to cook in parallel with household chores.
For example, on Saturday I fry a chicken, while I myself splash in the shower, I style my hair and so on. Sometimes I just run up and turn over. No fear to burn

For me, "-" is:
- the pan cannot be washed in the dishwasher
- after stirring the greasy contents of the pan, you need to immediately wash the spoon, otherwise the fat flows into the mount
- not removable cover

And I forgot that there is a spoon mount! It never crossed my mind to "fix" the spoon after stirring ...

For me, one HUGE minus was immediately discovered in the multicooker - this is the lack of a countdown from the very beginning of the program. Something wise, the numbers light up when 9 minutes remain, in another program - when eight or five, in the third - every half hour minus thirty minutes, and then minus every minute for the last hour. I didn’t understand why it wasn’t done, as in a bread maker, the countdown immediately in any program. Moreover, nowhere in the instructions is it written (or I did not find it) how long the programs "buckwheat", "milk porridge" and "pilaf" last. It is clear that then I will get used to it and will know the exact time by experience, but so far it is very annoying. It's about the cons ...
and the rest is all, while it seems that the pros. And very tasty!

There, the pots in the PM oxidized and went stains.

Aluminum cannot be washed in the dishwasher because it oxidizes there.

And I'm afraid to wash the pots in the PM after I read what happened to the likes of Multichotter.

I both from the multicooker and from the Unit pressure cooker my pots in the PMM - nothing terrible happens to them, since they are not just aluminum, but with a Teflon coating.

The only drawback I have so far worked with is that you cannot set the timer for extinguishing, otherwise there would be absolutely nothing to do

I'm talking about a multicooker. Before visiting this site, I didn't even know what kind of animal it was ... Now I sit, read and I also wanted to buy it ... But. Do I need it? You can cook everything in the oven (boiled pork, chicken, cakes ...) Cook the porridge for 10 minutes ... on the stove ... Boil the soup in a slow cooker - you also need to fry and put everything (that is, you can't save time in the kitchen ...) in general, where there is a topic about the pros and cons of a multicooker ... On the Panasonic website there are very "Tasty" pictures, so I was tempted by a cartoon ... But is it really possible to cook delicious dishes in it? (I love everything fried, with crusts). Therefore, I'm afraid, won't the ready-made dishes resemble those cooked on steam ... And bakes cakes well too? (Biscuit)

Thanks for answers. If that direct to the topic where this issue was discussed ...

I cannot boast of a great experience of cooking in a multicooker (0 I have it less than a week), I really like what I cooked in it. Porridge, yes, it is faster on the lash, if from Norlik flakes or the like, but I never got such delicious cereals from cereals. Neither rice nor millet. I made a hodgepodge (second course). Firstly, which surprised me very much, this small amount of butter when cooking, and secondly, the hodgepodge turned out well stewed, as my grandmother once cooked in my childhood. Stewed mutton - melted in the mouth. I can't say anything about fried foods, because I always try to cook either steam or stew. In my kitchen, a multicooker is not at all superfluous, although I have a Brown steamer, a microwave with a grill, an electric oven with a set of functions.

At first, my wife looked very askance and growling enough at me and the multicooker when I insisted to buy it.
Now he uses it with might and main and gets it. At her work, they already bought the 2nd one for a multicooker.
You can cook with a crust. True, not as crunchy and rosy as in a pan or grill, but also very, very even nothing.Right now, chicken wings have become almost our favorite dish.
You can cook porridge on the stove, of course. But I can hardly imagine how to cook the same "monastic porridge" from barley, buckwheat, rice and millet. And then in 15 minutes I prepared everything, and left to go about my business. Duck even a son after the army eats such barley with pleasure. And at first he said that he could not look at this shrapnel.
Now my wife has obliged me to cook soups. Although her soups on the stove are delicious! And I adapted in the cartoon.
But we haven't tried the cakes yet. Only all sorts of charlottes. We must try too.

My honey cake from Shula always turns out to be just awesome, the height under the lid, soaked with sour cream, well, very soft. In the oven, I don't know what it would be. And then without worries, I closed the MV, 65 minutes. baking, squeaked, turned off, left for 20 minutes and all the problems. Four cakes.
No, there is no way without CF. On the good-cook, the girls also spread everything well, thanks to them. I learned a lot.

And my CF is the third day.
And I have not yet known her charms. I cooked only boiled pork. Now I dream of jellied meat ...
The husband was preparing pilaf. I liked Pts ...
But ... I, apparently, have not yet learned all her charms.
I think for me the main thing in it will be stewing and long-term cooking.
I can say that I am drawn to HP much more every day. With the purchase of multi, I began to love hp even more.
Although after reading about the cartoon, I wanted everything at once, and her, and a hotter, and a pressure cooker. Having bought the first desire for some reason, it disappeared.
Yes, a cartoon saucepan is necessary, but not necessary.
Although I think that I have with her still ahead.

Hello Shipovich.
I recently became the owner of CF, but with great pleasure I master this miracle technique, I even gave the name "Home for Cooking".
I mostly use MV for cooking in my absence.
That is, I put in the necessary food, set the program and go to work, by the time I come home from work I already have dinner. I cook all the necessary dishes in MV, I have already gotten enough to cook soups, there are no special features.
Yesterday I cooked jellied meat from a goose, in the morning I put everything on stewing for 3 hours and left for work, came home at lunchtime and turned it off, and in the evening I just had to disassemble the goose and that's it !!!!
Today I steamed manti!
While running to the store, the mantas were prepared.
I am very happy with my assistant !!!

I have been using it for almost a year, I have not noticed the minuses, the only remark is that the non-stick coating is not very durable, and so there are some pluses.

I am already a confident MB user. I tried many recipes from both this site and Good Cook. She also adapted her own recipes for the new assistant. I'll tell you. that there are no special wisdoms. As the saying goes "simple, like everything is ingenious"
To the question asked in the title of the topic, I can answer like this: A multicooker is really necessary, but only for those who absolutely do not have time to cook (work and / or children). This thing is desirable for professional housewives. but not necessary. After all, the main advantage of MV is not that it cooks tastier than steaming, grilling, in the oven, etc. And not that it cooks faster than in a gas pot or in a pressure cooker. But what she cooks IN YOUR ABSENCE. This is its main and practically only advantage. And for busy women who have a scheduled day every minute, this thing is a must!
And it is definitely necessary for those who DO NOT HAVE KITCHEN AT ALL. This is either a dorm room, or there is a kitchen, but there is a hated mother-in-law
Those who have time for daily vigil over pots will not be particularly delighted with the purchase. Yes, it's useful, yes SOME dishes are better ... No more ...

[Cake]

Cake, well written. I would also add those who do not really like to cook.

Cake, that's well written.
But I don't agree about housewives. I am such, but as soon as I began to read about the Multicooker on the forum, I realized that this is what I needed! I got it and I do not regret it, and I am delighted, and not only me, but also my household! And thanks to the girls' recipes from the forums, it's so exciting! When you cook a lot every day, then it is simply necessary in the kitchen, even for those who house the house! So there is more time both for yourself and for the children and in order to work with a computer, read new things and keep abreast of events, but here in Ukraine it is so interesting that you don't have to go to the theater either.And when the household comes and you meet them with a smile and culinary innovation - you smile and they smile at you! Peace and harmony, peace in the family (and we have four men, not counting the cat, me and my daughter-in-law, my dear assistant), what else is needed to relieve work stress, only here's some good fresh tea! Emotionally, but from the heart.

A slow cooker is really necessary, but only for those who absolutely do not have time for cooking (work and / or children). This thing is desirable for professional housewives. but not necessary. After all, the main advantage of MV is not that it cooks tastier than steaming, grilling, in the oven, etc. And not that it cooks faster than in a gas pot or in a pressure cooker. But what she cooks IN YOUR ABSENCE.

Gold words!!!
When you run home from work closer to twelve at night, you put bread in a bread maker, porridge in a slow cooker, wash in a washing machine in the morning, and you yourself, with a clear conscience, sleep. This is almost the embodiment of the dream of technical progress, when "robots work, not man".

Kosha, !!!
Finally, I got rid of the feeling of "defective hostess"! Well, they say, I work a lot, everyone is sitting at home hungry.
In the evening I crawl home rather than run. I only put the bread maker on the timer, because I don't like the baked bread that has been heated for a long time. Therefore, I expect to be ready for awakening. But I put porridge in the MV without a timer, because the milk is rustic and, indeed, there have been cases of acidification. Therefore, I put it immediately on the "milk porridge" mode, and then it is simply warmed up until the morning. But it thickens, so I pour 20 percent more milk. In the morning, even the toughest millet when boiled and heated for 6-7 hours becomes soft, and laid out in plates, cools faster to a comfortable temperature.
Off the top I want to thank the girls once again who convinced me to buy a "completely useless bourgeois dishwasher thing" Having won the civil war with the household, I still bought this charm and now it is for sure "robots are injecting, not a man" A man lives at this time and feels like a MAN.

And I disagree about housewives. I, as a professional housewife, declare with full responsibility - we need her too. Those of us who have children will understand me. Because a weekday turns into walking back and forth. Bring me from school, feed me. Lessons to do plant. On add. take classes - come back home - in an hour or two - take it, take a walk. Have an afternoon snack / dinner. Oh, my daughter came running from college - listen to what she has to say, feed again. Oh, my husband crawled home from work - feed, listen ... Put the younger one to sleep, clean everything in the kitchen, wish your husband "good night" ... at 12 - 1 am you can already sleep ... But you also need to clean up, and cook. Yes, preferably tasty. And on the day off - everyone is at home. And I want to pamper my family with something. In this case, cartoon saves us great. While I chase the child back and forth, the soup will cook, and it will come home from school - warm. And so on

p. from. Mother-in-law can be different My get out, looked at me and ordered a slow cooker for myself - she's been happy for a year and says thanks

Since the summer I have been looking for a multicooker ... But, alas, I did not find it in the stores. I bought AG, in principle I am satisfied. But again I read about this wonderful helper and understand, I WANT! And then the other day I went to Eldo and saw her, fell in love and wanted more, even my girlfriend after my stories was inspired by the idea, now together we are going to save up and buy Thank you all for your attention!

Comrades, I’m not sure if I need a Panasonic cartoon or not
Now, if I didn't already have a double boiler, I would definitely buy it, but I don't know.
I understand that the question has already been discussed a thousand times, but maybe someone will bring it to me easier.

I have gas at home, a pressure cooker, a double boiler, HP, a decent oven, a microwave oven with convection.
An expensive, thick-walled, heavy frying pan with a non-stick coating and high sides, in which everything languishes amazingly, is also available.

If there are any boiled vegetables, then I use a double boiler or a gas pressure cooker.
All dairy porridges - they come out very tasty from a double boiler.
Well, it turns out quickly, there is no pilaf, but I am not critical of the presence of pilaf, I can occasionally make it manually.

I love the oven in the oven, I enjoy it.
I can casseroles both in a double boiler and in the oven - for every taste
So far, I have no health restrictions, but of course we try to eat healthy food.
I'm all slim, we don't eat much.

What else does a multicooker give that I cannot get from an oven, a double boiler and gas?
It is the dishes that interest me, and not the very fact of the pleasure of cooking in the cartoon

I join! I have never regretted that I bought it.

oh, with so much equipment and most importantly gas (!), the decisive moment can only be the release of time, you can put the porridge on the timer, leave the soup unattended - nothing will run away and cook on time, and even will be waiting for you warm and this a very convenient thing when traveling.

I would not say that food from a multicooker is tastier and you can cook everything on the stove. But the fact that she freed me from cooking and nothing burns or runs away is a recognized fact.

Have you been dissatisfied with the multicooker in the history of the forum?

For me, the main advantage of a multicooker is the ability to turn on and leave the house. Previously, there was always a dilemma - to have lunch / dinner or go for a walk with the child. Leaving the house, leaving the oven on, I would not risk it. Now I can load the multicooker and go for a walk
And yet - if, for example, I need to leave in the evening, leaving the child with her husband, I can be sure that the daughter will receive the porridge she put on at the right time in the right form, and not what my husband is able to cook
I also often use a multicooker to cook side dishes (rice, buckwheat), you don't need to stand over the pan and seize the moment (my husband is ready to eat almost any food except overcooked rice). I like the slow cooking function (stewing). After a few hours of such cooking, even a 2-year-old daughter, who is usually lazy to chew meat, eats beef with pleasure, just give her cutlets
And my husband stopped grumbling about wasted money as soon as he tasted his favorite onion soup, cooked by me in a slow cooker.
In general, I think that if there are small children in a family, then the slow cooker tremendously frees up time for communication. And to the rest of the advantages of this unit described before me, I join

Do not even hesitate! In my opinion, none of those who bought it regretted it.

There are simply moments that I do not really like, but in general there is much more positive!

Then I found the topic + and - multicooker, everything went into the essence.
In principle, you can live without her, but with her it is much better

Hello,
Tell me please-
originally wanted to buy a double boiler! daughter loves steam food, then read some tips on the internet and got to the multicooker !!
now I think I haven't seen the multicooker! BUT questions arose:
1. How many eaters can you steam vegetables for?
2. Is it possible to cook steamed vegetables and something else at the same time (like in a double boiler in layers)
3. And what about steamed manti (dumplings) ... (how much is it possible to cook this dish for eaters?).
I'm more interested in cooking - rice, vegetables, something steamed meat.
I was interested in a slow cooker - casseroles, cereals ...
and you can still cook in a slow cooker - porridge on WATER?
I love hercules .... on the water
I want to buy just don't know WHAT?
And yet, I have a gas stove, how is the consumption of electric power ??? As I understand it, with an electric stove, this wonderful pot fits perfectly in the kitchen !!!

1. How many eaters can you steam vegetables for?

2. Is it possible to cook steamed vegetables and something else at the same time (like in a double boiler in layers)

3. And what about steamed manti (dumplings) ... (how much is it possible to cook this dish for eaters?).
I'm more interested in cooking - rice, vegetables, something steamed meat.

I was interested in a slow cooker - casseroles, cereals ...
and you can still cook in a slow cooker - porridge on WATER?

And yet, I have a gas stove, how about the consumption of electricity ??? As I understand it, with an electric stove, this wonderful pot fits perfectly in the kitchen !!!

From my experience of communicating with a large (4.5 l) cartoon:
1. Steamed vegetables can be served for two adults (or a little for a child and adults)

2. You can use layers. One layer, for example, steamed fish or cutlets, and below buckwheat, or rice, or potatoes, or some other side dish.

3. Manty-dumplings, too, respectively, for two (if you use a basket for a double boiler). Perhaps there is some other tricky way, but I don't know it.
Vegetables, rice, meat - all this can be cooked. On this site, the girls shared recipes and technologies.

Porridge is perfectly cooked with milk and water.

Casseroles, muffins, biscuits are great baked.

I can’t say for sure about electricity. I just have an electric stove, but I haven't heard anyone complain.

[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.

And I chose my cartoon for a permanent "place of residence" on the table due to its frequent use: 1) every morning oatmeal porridge for my husband and me, 2) I often cook buckwheat in it (in my opinion, it turns out better in a slow cooker) - sometimes as usual , sometimes with onions and mushrooms in chicken broth, 3) cabbage soup, pickle and other soups: they taste different on the stove, and there is not always the opportunity to look after, and it certainly won't run away from multi! 4) stew, 5) pilaf, 5) stew cabbage is just a pleasure. Well, and many other things, such as baking muffins, cottage cheese cake, etc. Maybe a little more electricity has been consumed (by the way, I also have a gas stove), but I save on oil, since in principle you can cook in a cartoon without it at all, and I often do that. The only thing that is rarely used is steam cooking.

I also have a gas stove, but I use my electric pots "both in the tail and in the mane", but the stove is much less common. There was no significant increase in electricity consumption. Nothing catastrophic.

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