![]() ![]() The pressure cooker settings are easy to adjust and although our recipe only took 20 minutes to cook, there was a 15 minute additional preheat time at the start and a six-minute steam release at the end, creating a 41 minute total cook time. We cooked a Thai red curry using the pressure cooker function and again used the Sear function first to brown chicken legs. The cooked chili had a lovely flavor, the meat was moist and soft and we like that there’s a Reduce function so if your recipe hasn’t thickened as much as you’d like, you can use this function at the end of cooking to reduce and thicken it. The slow cook setting was easy to use and it doesn’t make any noise while cooking. To test the slow cook function, we made a slow cook beef chili recipe, we used the Sear function to brown the beef first and the Sauté function to soften the onions and vegetables which meant there was no need to use an additional frying pan, saving on washing up. We opted for three minutes, which produced perfectly cooked al dente broccoli, but the 13 minute preheat turns it into a lengthy total cook time. ![]() Similarly when it came to cooking broccoli florets using the steamer basket and steam function., we had no detailed cooking charts to consult. ![]() It’s worth noting that the steam release valve is at the back, so if you place the cooker under a wall cabinet or shelf, it’s likely that the steam and condensation will coat the underside of the cabinet. The steam release is the noisiest part of the process, but at 72dB it wasn't the loudest multi-cooker we’ve tested. The end result was beautifully cooked rice, which was not sticky or wet and didn’t stick to the cooking bowl either. Having said that, cooking it in the multi-cooker allows you to walk away and leave it unattended while it cooks. The preheat took 13 minutes and the auto pulse steam release took a further nine minutes, so the total start to finish time was 37 minutes, which is much longer than the 20-25 minutes it would usually take to boil the rice in a pan. There is a pre-set rice option in the pressure cooker settings, but there’s very little information given on the quantity or type of rice that the setting is designed for, so after some research, we decided our brown basmati would need longer than the 10 minute preset, so we increased it to 15 minutes. To cook rice we used the pressure cook function, but instead of cooking our intended 9 oz/ 250g of rice, we had to double up the rice and water quantities to meet the 1-quart/ 1-liter minimum capacity.
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