Jamie Oliver HomeCooker

The temperature settings are nice and consistent, mixing is continuous so no need to worry about food sticking etc. Bought mine second hand without recipe book, which is the only problem, hence 3 stars for ease of use

This is the best kitchen gadget ever It makes fabulous curries chillis ragu for moussaka etc because switch it on and leave it No burnt food , great for long cooks Is hot enough to fry meat Why have you stopped selling it ????

We bought ourselves one of these in autumn 2014, and were so taken with it that we bought one for each of our three children for Christmas. Everyone loves it and uses it frequently. I think we all started with Jamie Oliver's risotto recipe. It's so successful that the machine is worth the price for risotto alone. But it produces excellent results with all sorts of Italian sauces, Indian recipes, Thai curries, cous cous, soups, stocks, gravies, custards including ice cream custards, and on and on and on. Last night we made a lovely Spanish fish, chorizo and bean stew. Those with small children find it a particular help, since you can afford to be distracted by the demands of the youngsters, secure in the knowledge that the Home Cooker will switch itself into safe mode when the timer reaches zero. It's also great for teaching older children to cook, since it will neither forget to stir and so scorch the food, nor stir so vigorously that it slops over. In fact, it's almost impossible to fail. The steamer works well for things like cous cous, but to be honest we haven't used the pasta basket. Make your sauce in the Home Cooker and boil the pasta in a separate pan! Once you're accustomed to the Home Cooker, you can adapt any number of recipes for it. After 6 months of use, it's firmly established as one of our favourite kitchen machines. And, as a final plus, it's dead easy to clean.

This is so easy to use, and make various meals from scratch, having the stirring arm gives this product a great advantage the food does not seem to stick the pan. Once the food ingredients have been added just set the timer and temperature and leave it to do the rest, have only used the cooker a few times but the meals cooked in it have been excellent

My wife is a reluctant cook who does not enjoy cooking. Before using home cooker, she used to procrastinate cooking until last minute where we either order food or use ready to eat stuff or eat out. The cooking was limited to weekends. Home cooker has ensured we have consistency in taste thanks to continuous automatic stirring. No more burning taste in food, consistent distribution of salt and spices.

My wife is a reluctant cook who does not enjoy cooking. Before using home cooker, she used to procrastinate cooking until last minute where we either order food or use ready to eat stuff or eat out. The cooking was limited to weekends. Home cooker has ensured we have consistency in taste thanks to continuous automatic stirring. No more burning taste in food, consistent distribution of salt and spices.

We use this product for mainly rice and pasta dishes and also for making soup and porridge. The automatic stirring function is invaluable.

I use my HomeCooker so often I've stopped putting it away! It is easy to use and to clean afterwards.

Yes, it's a steep price tag, but if you can afford it, you should go for it - you won't regret it! I'm not a tidy person, it usually takes a good hour to clear up after one of my meals, but the Homecooker makes it SO easy to clear up as you go along. You put the first lot of ingredients in, set the timer, get on with any other prep still to do and then just chuck it in when the timer goes off. Bobs your uncle. In between, you can get on with the clearing away, washing up, filling the dishwasher, emptying the dishwasher, etc without any need to worry about what's in the Homecooker as it's constantly being stirred without the need for even one single human hand. I cleaned the whole kitchen while making a goulash - for some people, that may not mean much, but for me, that's a once a year kind of feat that I'd only completed two weeks before! I had the time to do something I really don't normally get around to as often as I'd like! Liberated was how I felt. And how I still feel having been using it now for about a month. The recipe book has some wonderful and simple recipes (I'll never do a full breakfast the traditional way again). My only complaint is that there is no information about using the gadget to concoct your own recipes, or rather transfer them to the Homecooker instead of the previous method, whatever that may have been. I have attempted a bolognese sauce with fantastic results, but I still need to work out the correct times as there's just no help with that sort of thing included. I must say before I finish that the maximum temperature of 250c is reached in less than 2 minutes, so it's pretty much ready to go from turning on. I love this device and was worried about where I was going to store it in my kitchen, but it's used almost daily so there's no need to move it off the side! Thanks Philips and Jamie Oliver for a fantastic product that I look forward to using for a long time to come.

I really enjoyed using the homecooker. It was extremely easy to use, I loved the fact that you can leave the cooker to stir while I could attend to my dinner guests. There were many features which I loved about the homecooker. Keeping the cooker at a constant temperature meant I could make sure my ingredients were being cooked in the right way without being overdone. It was great to have lots of ingredients and food being cooked at the same time without have to move around the kitchen as my kitchen is quite small I found it to be a good space saver. I lead a very busy lifestyle due to work commitments and have very little time to cook for myself - i found that the homecooker really allowed me to cook quickly and conveniently without hassle, combined with the cutting tower really saved me time in the kitchen.