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

were the shortlisted peeps emailed? so if we werent emailed we werent shorlisted?

just clarifying. i should also check my emails.

I think there's been a problem, I didn't get an email...

The short listed people have not been emailed.
It's £250 for the cooker thingy and £100 for the blender thingy. So I think it's both bits??

Oh! Well you would need both bits, wouldn't you? Odd that they are priced separately.

I think I will get confused with it (when I get selected of course)

Yes, it's both bits, the cooker and the chopper thing.

No emails until Monday....

Soooooo looking forward to tomorrow and my new toy! What shall I make first? I have Jamies meals in minutes book and everything.

I bet the Jool's pasta recipe from the 30 minute meals book would be a breeze in the Homecooker. No more grating carrots and celery with a box grater! It tastes really good too - one of Dh's favourites but I hardly ever make it.

When did she start cooking? Or rather why if you're married to a chef?

It's the pasta sauce he made for Jools when she was pregnant and had a craving for Ragu according to the book.

She must do a lot of cooking as she has 4 kids to feed and a husband who is often off cooking in restaurants or galavanting off round the world making TV programs. I believe he thinks her cooking is rubbish though.

Is it wrong that I checked my email just now to make sure?

Is it wrong to mention that today is my birthday? Surely you wouldn't want to upset me on my birthday?

Christ. You look pitiful. It's a bloody cooker.

It's a magic Cooker that chops and stirs and stuff. Like in "the sorceror's apprentice"

And see how well that worked out for Mickey Mouse!

ooh ooh ooh is today the day?!!

I am hugely confident for once that one of these will not be coming my way. It really is like the fridge and Xbox all over again

Ooh am I still.in with a chance then?

No email yet! Shurely some mistake

They probably start work late in the marketeying department at Philips.

As we are here though, once people have been chosen the rest of us should post recipies for the testers to try, I bet a few of you obsessive weirdos have been secretly meal planning