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

i dont imagine i will be picked either but i still have my email inbox open in another tab ready to refresh every few mins

Forgot today was the day we might find out.

Good luck everyone.

I made risotto primavera last night and I was thinking how good it would be to test it in the home cooker (yes I am one of those obsessive weirdos!)

Oo hope we find out today!

well i have got two emails, neither of them from mnhq tho :(

come on we need to know!

No e-mails here either.

DS1 (6) is wondering if he could make he own scrambled eggs using this.

We can't be kept waiting much longer surely 😉

I love risotto but the ready meals are not vegetarian am too busy lazy to stir.

Did my email get lost in the post?

I've never made a risotto. I struggle with mashed potatoes sometimes.

How do you do risotto in the oven? Don't you need to keep stirring it? Risotto is mny fave - even had apple risotto (nicer than it sounds)!

You bung the risotto rice and uncooked veg in a stoneware dish with the normal amount of water and bung it in the oven

I've had a few emails, my iPad dings when I receive one, and I've made a mad dash to look. Apparently my eBay order has been dispatched, not the email I wanted, but hurray!

No word yet?

i have had more emails and some into my junk email, checking both but nothing from mnhq yet it had better come before i have to go do the school pick up later!

Maybe they are discussing the fact that we are all so marvelous, we each ought to get one.

I did get an email from MNHQ which got me inordinately excited until I realised it was just a response to me reporting some spam that was posted earlier. It was very polite of them though.

I usually oven baked risotto too but I think the Homecooker could be perfect for doing a proper hob one without all of the stirring, maybe even a Paella?

I want I want I want I want I want
I NEEEEEEED!

Channeling a three year old. Will start hauling teddies out of the window next.

It's a right tease, this! I bet we don't find out today.

No emails yet? :( Have been frantically checking emails.

I dare not cook a risotto. I tend to forget the time, and by the time I remember I was cooking the 'food' has turned into something the swamp monster would turn his nose at. I blame mumsnet for distracting me my lack of time awareness.

I hope those who do get picked let us know they've got their emails. At least then I can drag myself away from my netbook return to normality. And sulk a bit 'cos I've not been picked. I wish it had been 1st come 1st served. I'd be in then. No. 7 me. 7th.

7th to post on thread does not mean 7th to apply! I don't always post on the thread when I do one of these!