NOW CLOSED: Want to try the new HomeCooker (worth £350) from Philips to the test? Cooks needed....

[AnnMumsnet]

We've been asked by Philips to find 15 MNers UK based who are willing to put their new HomeCooker (and cutting tower) to the MN test! This is a brand new product and MNers will be among the first to try it.

The HomeCooker is the first in the new range of kitchen appliances that has been co-created by Philips and Jamie Oliver and is a first-of-its-kind, multi-functional device that does the preparation as well as the cooking, meaning you can cook fresh and stay fresh.

For more information please see www.philips.co.uk/e/homecooker/home.html

Philips say "Enabling you to prepare homemade meals even on your busiest days, the HomeCooker has been specially designed to achieve authentic home cooking with ease. It can chop, stir, steam and sauté and be left cooking unattended".

As Jamie Oliver explains: "We all know it can be a struggle to get fresh, homemade food on the table every day, especially for busy parents who have to juggle so much. It's often a real tradeoff between spending time with the family and getting fresh food on the table. The beauty of the Philips HomeCooker is that it removes this dilemma - you can now do both! Whether you're a beginner cook or a more experienced chef, the HomeCooker takes the pressure off in the kitchen. Because it stirs itself you don't have to stand over a stove but you can still invest all that love and creativity into your meal."

For this we're looking for a range of people - it's aimed at those who like to and want to cook fresh meals but often struggle to find the time.

If you're selected for this product test you will be sent the HomeCooker (and cutting tower) and ingredients to follow one of the recipes provided. You may also want you to try some of your favourites in it.

We'll need you to add three lots of feedback:

1.  First impressions on a thread on site
   

2.  Your opinion after you've been using it for a couple of weeks on a thread (we will add more questions to the thread)
   

3.  A review on <a class="break-all" href="http://www.mumsnet.com/reviews/household-appliances/ovens-cookers-and-hobs" target="_blank">the MN Reviews section</a>
   

So long as you do all three you will be able to keep the HomeCooker after testing (RRP £350).

We'd also like testers to send in about 5 photos of the food you create using the HomeCooker - these can be anonymous and will be used on the Philips Facebook pages

If you'd like to put it through the paces please sign up here - if you are selected we will be in touch.

Thanks and good luck

MNHQ

good plan ohnomyfoot. Hfffpmfp

Nothing yet?

I think they are just messing with us now...

Can this please be like that episode of Opera when she told everyone that two lucky people had one a car and to check under their seats for an envelope, but she'd put them under every seat?

Could you sell the idea to Phillips, think of the potential free publicity and positive feeling that would be generated.

Ooh Mis hope so!

Back from gazing longingly at the kitchen gadgets in John Lewis shopping and still nothing!?!

Mis that's a great idea. A veritable army of mum's telling the world how bloody fantastic the thing is.

See today I could use it. We have many clubs to attend right after school which results in rubbish meals getting cooked as its tea then bed as time goes by so fast! But I could use this machine to cook whilst I sort the kids out! I so could have tested it today

oh damn that stray apostrophe.

Mondays are the day I need it most. DD swims in the morning and then DS goes straight from school in the afternoon and we get back too late to start cooking anything more involved than plain pasta or a frozen pizza. If I could bung stuff in the Homecooker between the lessons, we could have a proper meal ready and warm for when we get back.

i've changed my mind

i think Jamie Oliver eats ready meals and Philips all smell

I think what they are afraid of is a bevy of mums telling the world it's crap.

It's not like we're not honest reviewers around here.....

Ladies and gents....no news yet - sorry! I've sent off a shortlist to Philips and they will make the final selection...am just awaiting the final folks to come back to me. You're making me nervous with all this chat!

You're making us nervous with the waiting, Ann!!!

How short is the short list? What criteria was used to make it?

::nosy::

You could put some of us out of our misery Ann....?

Yes. We need to know if we're not on the short list. Tell us

if I'm on the list then I'm really really sorry for being so rude

short list? blimey this is scarier than waiting for a school place!

Ooh thought I'd been picked when I saw a Mumsnet email, but no, it's the parenting news email
Come on MNHQ, give us some clues to the short list.

::crosses fingers:: ::sends gin to Ann::

Oh for goodness sake. Just do it alpohanetically by surname - Frontpaw Aaaaardvark's the name.

Shortlist??? You're toying with us now....!!!

I've just had an email from MNHQ...about parenting news. I looked at who it was from, and was sooo excited. Then I looked at the title. That's mean!

Short list !? Balls. I never make lists. Apart from ones of things I need to remember. well goodluck everyone

I didn't get on the other list either. Here I sit, cold headed and hungry... Waaaahhhhh

Will someone keep me off this thread please.

BTW I heart Philips