Slow Cooker Reviews

T681186 - 5.2 litre, 3 settings, Oval Shape Slow cooker from Marks & Spencer

This 5.2 Litre capacity Slow Cooker belongs to the leading retailer ‘M&S’, who promises to deliver value added products. They are an establishment for several decades and its trend spreads across the country. This product featuring under the small appliance category is a sure one to live the expectations of the user.

Physical appearance: The body finish with the stainless steel along with the black colour for the base and the top made of high-grade plastic material makes this model. It comes with oval shape and so is the crock-pot. With the control knob in the front bottom makes it set for functioning.

Purpose: This appliance serves the purpose of slow cooking, where in the food is been cooked in low heat compared to the other forms of cooking and it takes longer time for obtaining the tenderness. The underlying statement for this product is that it cooks the food without any loss of nutrients.

Procedure of cooking: This is an easy and simple to use appliance in which it takes the food to be cooked in the provided crock-pot. Along with the required ingredients to the crock-pot, this slow cooker cooks the food for longer hours to obtain the required tenderness. Ultimately, the cooked food in rich in nutrients, aroma, flavour and tender making each one relish the great meal.

Capacity: M&S Stainless Steel Slow Cooker is been capable of handling 5.2 litre capacity, serving a large sized family and the get-to-gathers are possible in this appliance. Even if required to cook smaller quantities it proves to be beneficial as the crock-pot is quite big enough and has more space for the food to easily get cooked. The required tenderness can be obtained quicker than before.

Control and Heat settings: Embedded in M&S 5.2L Oval-Shaped Slow Cooker is the rotary control that denotes the three different heat setting for the cooking process. They are low, warm and high, based on the nature of the food and the time available for cooking the desired heat can be set.

Features:

• Toughened glass lid - This is the one available that is capable of withstanding high temperature. It rests firmly and made of glass that allows the user to see through the cooking process.
• Cool to touch handles – The handles present on the both sides of the base and the lid features with the cool touch. This makes easy for the user to handle the appliance.
• Power on indicator – Present in this model is the power on indicator that illuminates when it is set to function.

Guarantee: Offered by the maker of this product a 2-year guarantee, that makes many confused minds free.

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M&S 5.2L Crock-pot Slow Cooker - Technical Specifications, Features

10120 – 3 litre capacity, 2000 Watts, Stainless steel finish Cooker from Haden

Slow cookers are the perfect ones to cook large meals without spending much time in the kitchen. They are the healthy means of cooking where in, it retains the maximum nutrients present in the food that is been cooked. Understanding this many companies are offering variety of models to suit the need of each individual. This 10120 Stainless Steel Slow Cooker from an established manufacturer ‘Haden’ comes as a boon for the user to relish the home cooked food even with the pressure of time.

Model: Haden 10120 Stainless Steel Slow Cooker

It makes an interesting companion for the households as by just adding the ingredients in this round shaped slow cooker and  by setting the temperature based on the available time, it starts functioning till the food is been cooked. This small appliance is a value addition to any type of kitchen as it takes care to tender any foods like the veggies, grains, meat and so on.

Design and Parts:

This appliance has a round structure with the removable glass lid. The body colour and finish is stainless steel with the black colour rim, handles, knob and the base.

• Handles – Available in Haden 10120 3-litre Capacity Slow Cooker are the cool touch handles embedded on both sides that ensures easy carrying even as the programme ends.
• Lid – The lid of this Slow Cooker is been made of toughened glass with a small round vent to allow the extra steam to escape. The lid is been made fully transparent enabling the user to see through the cooking process. It also comes with the cool touch knob that makes easy to open the lid even during the functioning of the appliance in case of the requirement of adding ingredients.

Capacity: With the 3-litre capacity, that makes it suitable for large size cooking. It allows cooking for the whole family in a single go. At most, times it is been found that this model can handle the cooking for the parties and get together. Interesting to note that this round slow cooker also gives more cooking space when small quantities is been cooked and hence the required tenderness can be obtained much quicker than other small models.

Heat settings: There are 3 heat settings available and it includes the keep warm mode. The user is at the preference to choose either the high or the low temperature and when the programme comes to an end, it automatically switches over to the keep warm mode. The keep warm mode helps to keep the food fresh up to 1 hour or till the food is been removed which ever is earlier.

Control panel: Present in Haden 10120 2000 Watts Slow Cooker is the power on indicator light that denotes the functioning of the appliance. The control panel is so sleek and present in the front bottom of the appliance. It has a rotary control knob for setting of the required temperature and the control is been operated manually.

Crock-pot: The crock-pot is been made of ceramic and allows to be removed from the appliance. Such an attractive one can even be used for serving. Added to these is that the cleaning of the crock-pot is easy since it is removable.

Power: The total power of this appliance is 2000 Watts and it forms group with the higher energy utilization of small appliance.

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Haden 10120 Round Shaped Slow cooker - Technical Specification Details

RK701115 - 4 in 1 Slow Cooker, Steamer, Rice Cooker, Porridge Maker from Tefal

Brand: Tefal

Tefal is an international brand, established during 1950 with a Frenchman. Getting name and fame in the non-stick products, it operates in about 120 countries. They are an innovation of small appliance that makes the work in kitchen simpler. This model that is been reviewed is an exception from the usual ones with its multi-functional ability.

Model: RK701115 Slow Cooker, Steamer, Rice Cooker, Porridge Maker

Tefal 4 in 1 RK701115 Slow Cooker brings out its exception features of multi functioning. A unique combination of various small appliances that takes care of the regular kitchen works it the formula behind the innovation of this model. Being multi functional, yet compact in size makes it perfect to be placed on the kitchen tabletop for the best of access.

Outlook: Tefal RK701115 Multi Functional Slow Cooker comes with the combination of black and stainless steel housing that is been varnished. The control panel takes the front pace with the square dimension. The lid comes in black colour with no viewing window. It locks with the hinges on both sides. The various parts of this round shaped appliance are the steam basket, hotplate, condensation collector, removable non-stick bowl, removable steam shield. The capable handling capacity is 10 cups that is been suitable for medium to large families.

Control Panel: The digital control panel with the soft touch buttons makes it possible to set all the functions, each of the buttons denotes the various functions like the rice cooking, steam cooking, slow cooking and the porridge cooking. The increase and the decrease button help to set the required increase and the decrease of the set functions. It is also been provided with the indicator light to denote the under going function. The keep warm mode is been indicated with the orange light differentiating from the rest of the red lights.

Functions:

Rice cooking – It cooks the rice and with the help of the graduations marked inside, the bowl helps to set the right quantity of rice and water. Since the capacity is 10 cups, it is necessary that the quantity should not exceed the set level. Generally, the quantities of 6 cups of rice say about 900 grams takes about 25 minutes cooking time and serves about 8 people. More to add is that the rice cooker automatically sets the cooking time based on the quantity added.

Slow cooking – Another interesting function that can be set with just a touch of a button in the control panel. It is required to set the cooking time and it allows setting a minimum of 1 hour that can go maximum up to 9 hours. It allows the user to speed up or slow down the process as wished and as long as the red indicator remains active, the cooking is in progress.

Porridge cooking – A brief outline of this function is that it cooks by adding all the ingredients. This does not feature with the keep warm function. To cook about 600 grams of porridge can take just 4 minutes but should be noted that it make vary depending on the type of porridge.

Steamer – This is another regularly used mode that required placing the steam basket in the bowl before adding the ingredients. Here the programming time can be set with the minimum of 1 minute to a maximum of 60 minutes.

Others in General:

Automatic keep warm: This is an automatic function that irrespective of the cooking mode when the program end it switches over to the keep warm function until the lid is been opened. This function is an exception for the porridge function hence it is safer to use.

Easy maintenance: It is dishwasher safe and since the parts are removable, it can easily handle for cleaning. The non-stick ware is required a special care.

Lid: The lid of this model is been integrated with the appliance and it does not consist of a viewing window, hence the progress of cooking cannot be viewed. It also has a hinged locking system that holds on to the aroma and flavour without letting it out.

Basket and bowl: Available in this appliance are the removable non-stick bowl and a plastic basket that supports the steaming function.

Power: With the power of 630 Watts, it gives all the functions efficiently. It also comes with the compact cord storage at the base of the unit. Hence, it ensures a neat design.

Accessories: The included accessories with Tefal 4 in 1 630 Watts Slow Cooker that comes with no extra cost are the Measuring cup, Measuring spoon and a Recipe book with 42 recipes.

Tefal 4 in 1 RK701115 630watts Digital Slow Cooker - Technical Specifications

Hinari HSC008 1.5L Slow Cooker with the ability of slow cooking is best suited for the preparation of vegetables, soups, stews and even tendering the meat. The concepts of slow cooking making the food retain its flavour and nutrients. The features and functions of this Slow Cooker is been reviewed as follows.

Design: With the white colour body makes the appliance bright as ever with the embedded handles of the same colour. The round shaped body is the one often preferred for even cooking. With a simple control knob and the glass lid makes it exceptionally stylish though it belongs to the basic or the simple model.

Capacity: Having been capable of handling 1.5-litre capacity, this appliance forms the group with those made for small family use. When cooked in less quantity for even larger families this appliance can choose which gets the work done quicker and makes it an energy saving concept.

Heat settings and Control: Just goes simple with a single knob providing the rotary function to set the operation. It comes with the red light indication to denote the functioning of the appliance. The settings that are been allowed are the off, low, high and warm functions. These are the three different heat settings that go as per the selection. During the times when there are ample time the slow option can be chosen when on time the fresh, hot food is been obtained. During the times when the time is short, the high option utilizes more energy and cooks quicker. It can also be set in the keep warm mode that keeps the cooked food warm until relished.

Features:

Lid – The lid of Hinari HSC008 1.5L White Colour Slow Cooker is made of toughened glass that is sturdy even during the continuous cooking. It also fits fine with the base unit without allowing the steam to escape. The highly transparent glass makes it possible to see through the cooking process, most times it is exciting to see the cooking process. The lid consists of a knobs and embedded handles to serve the propose of opening and closing.

Handles – The handles found on both the sides are cool touch handles that keeps out the fear of burning and makes it possible to open immediately.

Bowl – Present in this Slow Cooker is a ceramic bowl that is removable and can use for serving. It can also be used in microwave and oven to increase its functionality. The bowl also seems to be dishwasher safe.

Technology – This model comes with the warp around heating element that provides even cooking for the food inside. This feature goes special as no hot or cold spots are been found.

Verdict: Hinari HSC008 1.5L Slow Cooker being a simple one has an edge in respect to its attire and design. Normally, the basic models do not feature with the even cooking technology, which is present here. The down sides noted are the absence of delay start function and the digital control system.

Hinari HSC008 1.5 Litre Round Shaped Slow Cooker - Specification Details

Tesco SCB08 Black Slow Cooker belongs to the brand ‘Tesco’ who deal with wide range of consumer products and one of the biggest Departmental store network chain in UK. This model belongs to the small kitchen appliance category and has been made to impress the users.

Appearance of  SCB08:

More so, this model has an oval shaped design and is been attired with black colour. It consists of metal housing that ensures its durability. The oval shape of the appliance has an edge over the circular shape as it can accommodate large foods for convenient cooking. The transparent lid and all-together black colour handles for both the base and the top, but the lid also has a knob. It consists of a stoneware inner pot for cooking.

What it does?

This SCB08 Dishwasher Proof slow cooker gives the benefit of cooking the foodstuffs without losing its nutrients. It works longer to provide the utmost tenderness in the food. There are three heat settings available and based on the choice it works the time desired. The three heat settings are low, medium and high. The procedure goes as the food items are loaded in the removable stoneware pot and it is been placed inside the slow cooker with the lid closed. With the manual control system that is been set with the knob provided. The working is been denoted with the red indicator.

About its specialties:

The following are some of the special features that are been designed to give utmost utility to the user. They determine the efficiency of the product.

• Luxury metal housing – this gives a sturdy construction and proves to be an appealing design to many.
• Removable stoneware pot – the cook pot of this model is made of stoneware that is attractive and can serve with it in a trendy way. It also features to be removable.
• Cool touch handles – present in this model are four handles and all of them feature with cool touch. Hence, handling is simple without the fear of getting a burn.
• Toughened glass lid – the fully transparent lid not only makes it easy to follow the cooking process but also protects the steam from escaping. Hence, there is no wastage of energy.
• Dishwasher Proof – One feature that is highly looked out for any appliance is the dishwasher proof and all the removable parts of Tesco SCB08 Oval Shape Slow Cooker including the lid is dishwasher safe.
• Slide proof rubber feet – The firmness is ensured and those accidental slips in the kitchen can be avoided with this slow cooker as it is been embedded with the slide proof rubber feet.

What is the Capacity and Power?

This model is capable of handling 3.3 litres and the energy consumption is been noted to be 207 Watts. It is suitable for small to medium size family.

Verdict:

Although, Tesco SCB08 207 Watts Slow Cooker looks attractive, does not consist of modish features. Energy consumption is also a bit on the higher side compared to its capacity. Features like display screen, delay start, count down timer and keep warm functions are not available but the price looks justifiable rather it is cheap.

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Tesco SCB08 Cool Touch Handle Slow Cooker - Technical Specification Details