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

It would also be unfair on those of us who didn't see this thread until after work/the school run.

I thought that was it, I'd been unsuccessful . Obviously not emailed out yet then?

they dont do it like that tho as we dont all see the thread at the same time. we just all get put in and they either choose who they like or they draw them randomly and its not mnhq qho chooses its the company doing the testing.

any other way would be unfair.

and i also often apply for these things and dont post on the thread, partly as i dont want to bump it up so it gets seen more and then more people may see it and apply but this one was a pinned thread anyway.

no emails yet glitter if you get one and i dont, when i visit i expect to be able to have a good look

erm, I wasn't being entirely serious. Clutching at straws is the phrase most appropriate I think. I know posting 7th doesn't mean being 7th, I'm just trying to garner some sympathy to see if I can get a 'ooh, bad luck, here's an extra home cooker thingy that was just lying around doing nowt, seing as you just missed out' type of response from MNHQ/Phillips/Jamie's missus I heard she was a MNetter. Or something. Hey, we are all showing our desparate side here, why not me too?

Pleeeeeease pick meeeeeeeee Philips...

5mad if I'm lucky I'll let you TOUCH it n'all

jumps up and down excitedly

i soooo WANT ONE!!! me me me me me!! i need one, i soo do!

i wonder what their target market is and how they are picking people?

They are probably looking for the people who beg the least, 5madthings

well i havent begged...much... and certainly not as much as some others (smug face)

i have to go on the school run in 40 mins i NEED to KNOW! and it the bloody sky is getting greyer and it looks like it is going to piss down, but at least if i know i have got one i can be HAPPY in the rain!

No emails been sent yet - sorry - am chasing client....
BTW the 'choosing' bit is genuinely a combo of randomness, getting a good balance of folks in terms of responses to Qs and what you put in the end box. No right or wrong answers particularly. It's not about being 1st on list, posting on this thread or attempts at bribery

Also - we do have some more product tests being planned at the mo so do watch this place if you don't get picked this time (not all have such a big rrp as this but still should be interesting!)

5madthings so do I!

Ann, can you give them a stern Mum face and tell them it's not nice to tease please.

Will keep watching Ann if am unsuccessful, I've applied for loads now, I'm sure one day I might get lucky! Haha. :o

I don't really care about the RRP, ds would just like to try some food which isn't overcooked. You can have it back after a couple of months if you want it.

yeuch I have never checked in my spam folder so many times, goes off to wash mind.

You know we're not going to end up finding out today right? Sods law and all that.

Bad organisation by Philips.

As I always tell DS 'who told you life was supposed to be fair?!!'

Grr.
Now even I have looked.

no news yet? am at school so cany log in to emails. shall drag thethings away from the playground and get them home. hopefully before it rains!

I am picturing the next staff meeting...
'Who wants to do the admin for the next product test?'