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've just got an email .

Thank you sooooo much . I am v v v excited.

Anyone want to come round for tea?

ooh, I've been picked. I can hardly believe it. I promise I'm not a professional competition winner - I have never never in my life won anything at all!!!

But you know, I just found out this weekend that my mum has almost certainly got terminal cancer. It's so so so nice to have something to smile about today.

ah can you choose not to disclose income?

and i have 5, obviously but am a sahm parent.

no email here

libel you dont need to justify winning! sorry to hear about your mum :( i hope it helps make your life a bit easier having the cooker xxx

nope, not me again.

Am so sorry we couldn't include all of you.... Those who were picked were just lucky really - as explained above it's such a random mix of folks from across all those who applied.

I have been picked and I am so excited, can't wait to have a go. :)

I am hoping to prep food early in the day when baby and toddler let me and use the timer so food is ready for teatime :)

Extra as I am chuffed. Think this gadget is worth more than my stamp sized kitchen is...including appliances :)

Hopeing not hoping, silly me :)

Sorry about your mum libel

So sorry to hear about your mum libel

I'm another that always wonders what the criteria are for being picked for these things, as I never am. And who also fears that faux-MN-ers are getting all the good things. More so with the straight comps, actually!!

But WOWERS, I got picked! I've only just seen the email; I've not told anyone in RL yet but wanted to come here to say OMG and thanks! I am quite ridiculously excited as I am another that normally never 'wins' anything! I promise that I will give detailed feedback, in case it will help any of those who did not luck out this time. GOd, that sounds prattish, doesn't it? Prattish and boastful? I do mean it nicely though!

Just rushed off to check my e-mails, and I had one from MN, but it was for the bloody book club.

No trial for me, oh well. Well done to those who are lucky enough to give this one a go, I'm looking forward to hearing all about it. Unless we win the lottery I can't imagine ever spending that much on a kitchen gadget I think pampered chef is too expensive!

Oh well, you win some you lose all some. Congrats to the lucky winners.

Any chance MN can haggle us non-winners a good deal to buy this after we've seen the feedback?

No email for me! Well done everyone else though and also looking forward to the feedback

Yes- what will happen to the demo models, they won't bramble to sell them. Will the lucky testers get to keep them or can I buy one half price?

Bramble = be able

blisterpack - good idea - will ask

and also libelulle v sorry to hear about your mum.

So sorry to hear about your mum, libelulle

Thanks all. Life is pretty shit sometimes, and the next few months are going to be unimaginably tough I think. But it's nice to still have stuff to feel a bit excited about, even if it just shiny kitchen gadgets. My mum was pretty chuffed too when I told her

gah, sorry, didn't mean to kill the thread!!!

Posting so libel isn't the thread killer.

I'm assuming we keep them after the trial I'm scared I'll break it and have to pay for it?