Mumsnet users review the Tefal Cook4Me Connect

[JustineBMumsnet]

This is the feedback thread for the 30 Mumsnetters who have been testing the Tefal one-pot digital cooker Cook4Me Connect (RRP £319.99).

Here’s what Tefal have to say about the product: “You don’t need to be a masterchef to achieve delicious meals in no time! Tefal have innovated again, and now give you Cook4Me.

Cook4Me is a one-pot digital cooker, ideal for parents looking to make fast and fresh meals:
- It is easy to use and intuitive: Cook4Me comes with 50 built-in recipes, and features a digital screen with guided cooking steps.
- Cook4Me cooks under pressure, which means you will save a lot of time. For example, after browning and pre-heating, it cooks a Chicken Tikka Masala in 3 minutes, a Thai Green Chicken curry in 4 minutes and a Risotto in 9 minutes (and no need to stir!)…
- It is the ideal all-in-one cooker, with up to 6 cooking manual modes: not only does it pressure cook, but it also steams, browns, simmers, gentle-cooks and automatically keeps your food warm. Its dishwasher-safe bowl can feed 6 people, perfect for the whole family or for batch-cooking.

Cook4Me comes in a standard version, with 50 built-in recipes (RRP is £269.99), and in a Connected version, that works with My Cook4Me app, giving access to over 100 recipes (RRP is £319.99).”

Testers, please ensure that you’ve tested the digital cooker using both the recipes and the manual/ingredients modes and then give your feedback by answering the following questions as well as completing the survey we will email to you.

1. How easy or difficult did you find Cook4Me Connect to use?
2. Which recipes did you try? What did you think of them?
3. What were your thoughts on the cooking results of the Cook4Me Connect?
4. Would you recommend the Cook4Me Connect?

All who give their required feedback will be entered into a prize draw where one tester will win a £100 voucher for the store of their choice (from a list).

Non-testers, please answer the below question. All non-testers who answer the below question will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £200 voucher for the store of their choice (from a list).

• Is there a recipe you’ve never dared to cook and would really like to be able to make in the Cook4Me?

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

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I'd love to try and make a risotto. It seems simple enough, but I always manage to get rice wrong when I'm just cooking it on its own, so I dread to think what it would be like as a main ingredient! This definitely sounds like it would make it a lot more straight forward.

Non tester- My son loves Thai Green curry would love to be able to cook one for him

Non tester, would love to make a risotto or a soufflé.

Wow - this might even enable me to cook something edible! I would love to be able to cook asian food. Or sushi... but I have a feeling sushi might be a stretch even for this machine!!

I'd like to make chilli beef with Chipotle. It takes forever in my oven!!!

Boeuf Bourguignon- takes an age to cook, and I'm guessing you need skill and patience, and I don't possess either of these!

Non- tester. I'd like to make a really good Thai meal- particularly Thai penang curry.

Non-Tester

I would like to be able to make a healthy version of Tempura Prawns.

non-tester. I've only had Thai Green Chicken when out at restaurants. I would love to try and cook it myself at home. I already love one pot cooking in my slow cooker and this nifty design with built in recipes looks like a fab alternative.

Non tester, I'd love to be able to cook risotto, I mess it up every time I try so have now given up, wish I could have tested one of these they sound great

Non-Tester. I love seafood risotto, but i'm awful at boiling rice correctly let alone attempting to make a risotto. Would love to be able to make one at hone instead of having to pay expensive restaurant prices.

I've always wanted to try my hands at Thai green curry myself!

Non-Tester: I would definitely love to learn how to make a risotto. I consider myself an experienced cook but risottos scare me though I love to eat them!

Non tester-

Is there a recipe you’ve never dared to cook and would really like to be able to make in the Cook4Me?

Loads! My dp loves things like casserole and stew which I have no clue how to make and wouldn't have the patience for anyway, so it's pasta or pasta here!

Non tester: I would try oxtail stew where the meet just falls off the bone. Great for summer BBQ and anything to shorten the cooking time

Tonight I supervised dd (9) while she did the bacon and leek risotto. I prepared the ingredients then let her get on with it. She loved being able to cook without worrying about getting burned. The risotto tasted great but the quantities were stingy! I'll adjust it next time.

Non-Tester - I love the sound of Chicken Tikka Masala in 3 minutes. Easy peesy!!

Non-Tester: I've always wanted to make risotto but I know how hard it is to get right so I've never got the courage to try it!

I made the pot roast cider chicken last night. I found browning a whole chicken a bit tricky, and I wasn't confident it was going to be cooked in 40 minutes, but it was! It was really tasty and easy to do. The sauce needed thickening with cornflour which the recipe didn't mention in the ingredients, but it did tell you to do it at the end. Luckily I had some otherwise we'd have had very runny sauce.

Going to try a spag Bol tonight - my own recipe, not the one on the app.

Non-tester! I'd love to try to cook a roast chicken recipe in it..... but I'm scared :(

I'm a non-tester. I'd love to make a great risotto as that's always looked such hard work to do in a pan!

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