Good day.
I read the multicooker section with might and main, and I also read this topic, but I have not mastered it all yet. Can you concentrate your experience and answer the question about the need for a multicooker as follows ?:
Where did you start and where did you stop? That is, it is clear that there are options - no gas / electric stove, or a hostel. That is, options when there is nowhere else to cook. I'm talking specifically about an ordinary kitchen, where a slow cooker is not a vital necessity.
Let me explain:
I bought a multicooker in order to transfer the preparation of many dishes to the machine and not stand at the stove, taking into account the fact that there are two children in the family and I would like to eat not only tasty, but also healthy. As a result, after trying to cook everything in the cartoon, including soup and charlotte, I stopped at:
1. Chicken in all forms - whole and in pieces. It is unrivaled and softer nowhere.
2. Casserole (or as I call it - steamed)) curd.
3. Porridge / cereals.
Listen, that's all. Even if I sometimes (but very rarely) make mushroom soup, I also cook it in a cartoon - for some reason it turns out tastier than on the stove. I thought now and it even became insulting. Apparently, one should not be lazy and transfer the first courses to the cartoon. Do you know what does not suit me in multicooker soup? The fact that it must then be poured from the bowl into a saucepan, because we won't eat the soup in half a day, but we still need a cartoon. And it is inconvenient to keep the bowl in the refrigerator, the pan is more handy. Well, in a saucepan there are 7 liters, and in a cartoon - 5)
I cooked meatballs, but for some reason they turned out not as juicy as in a saucepan ... It's even surprising.
I must also say that I am not very thin as a citizen, but one might say, overweight)) My husband is about my build. The daughter is also inclined, and the youngest - fat-fried is all the more not useful. Therefore, I used to cook with a minimum of oil. The multicooker saves here, also at the expense of Teflon. But for example, I have not cooked pilaf for a long time, and in a cartoon with my micro dose of oil - it turns out a wonderful porridge with meat)) but not pilaf, of course) Therefore, many dishes where the taste is given by abundant oil are not available to us.
What dishes have you settled on after months of using the multicooker? How often do you cook in it? What should be cooked in the cartoon taking into account the automation of the process (except for cereals, of course))?
ps. Girls, and who really cooks borscht in a cartoon with a live stove? Faster, tastier ?? Confess)
and yes - I remember the first impressions - "ahh, how convenient, how delicious, and you can have a cake, and soup, and everything"))) the experience of those who have several cartoons is interesting. months and not looking at her soberly))
