Not help as hoped

The Jamie Oliver Home Cooker is on for a really nice thing, especially stir the automatic I was very interested and has tried on several occasions. So far nothing has stated, and it is with three children but very nice for me, not always having to stand by. In the meantime, I can take care of other things while the food is in the kitchen and is prepared and is constantly stirred.
The tower is at the cutting for very practical, but in harder vegetables he begins to "hop". He also has quite a scattering angle. In the pot into it okay, but I've used it for my salads or soup seasoning, I had a little brush after use in the near vicinity of the cutting tower.
The stainless blades are good quality and very sharp - my thumb has allowed to make it a quick picture.
Nevertheless, I find awkward to build him a little together and clean, that would certainly be able to solve some skilful.
But that almost all parts are dishwasher safe, is great!
A small Pro / Contra list I could now create:

Pro:
+ Independent stir - great! So far, I had nothing to complain about here.
+ Integrated timer - great!
+ Beep - in sufficient volume.
+ Fairly easy to assemble / disassemble for cleaning /.
+ I especially like the different temperatures, can also be set in Fahrenheit.
+ The thawing food in the pot is to expanses gentler than, for example, in the microwave.
+ The whole is also suitable for a large family like us (5 people) - here I had initially some concern that the pot size may not be enough. But it proved to be false, so far we have been fed all.
+ The cable rewind like me, so no cable is unnecessarily around if you do not even need the Home Cooker or sometimes want to remember where.
+ Steam dish, pasta insert and steam basket can be used simultaneously when times pending larger dishes.
+ The warming function naturally pleases me very well. Especially when food but after cooking before serving still to run through briefly or generally, you want to enjoy the food and takes time.
+ There are also pieces in the cutting tower, only very large need to be cut before they are filled.
+ The use pasta is great, so you have to drain no more pasta but can they get out the same along with the application and allow to drain.
+ Protection against overheating. However, I use this for devices of this type generally expected.

Cons:
- The power button on the back - to push in - not like it so much / I do not think really for so practical.
- The cutting Tower "hops" sometimes has a little trouble with hard vegetables such as carrots, celery.
- Unfortunately, it is a fairly large gap zwischem the cover and the disc holder, so still fairly large residual pieces remain in it left. While I understand that a certain gap must be, otherwise you run the risk mitzuhobeln the plastic of the tamping tool, but ideally I do not find the whole thing so well.
- The handles of the pot are a little small - you can not hook the fingers in order to take the pot. Why that was so designed, I frankly do not understand.
- My husband is not optimal to clean the pot. Too many edges, the screws in the cover annoy him, and the recess for the agitator arm.
- We need of course only two sockets - or a multiple plug - if you want to use both devices at the same time.
- The accompanying cookbook I found a little mau. It works really quite well, has a nice thick - but that's a sham, since only half in German, the other half in French, with the same recipes.
- The manual I find much in need of improvement; I have searched for more detailed instructions stupid like: How do I thaw a bit on the pot? How much water belongs in the pot, if you are into it with the pasta used and how many grams of noodles fit into it? Which cutting disc for which vegetables? All I had to find out for himself or still trying to figure out in order to achieve an optimal treatment outcome. Simple small directional tables as with my pressure cooker, because something is very helpful, and you can not run as easy risk to mess up everything because you know practically nothing and everything has to find out for yourself.
- No idea if it is not easy own stupidity, but I am running the water when cooking pasta always on, or in the cut-out for the mixer head. Through the hole in the pot down, so I always have scorched noodle salt water on the hot plate at the end. This can indeed be easily removed, but see a point above, I simply do not know if I have too much water in it / too much pasta or what it hooks otherwise. Maybe it's normal?
- What I unfortunately have to say that after less than two weeks, the agitator has stopped going. Very annoying, but I hope / assume Philips takes this problem very quickly and reliably (Pro!). Especially the customer service really very nice, accommodating and helpful is (Doppelpro! It is left as a customer not alone!)

Unfortunately I could since then no longer cook with the Home Cooker since the paddle on strike after two weeks, but rice pudding, roasted almonds and various other things I wanted to still try it.
At this point I have to praise the Philips customer service again, the very quickly takes care of such things.

I think the Home Cooker is still more or less in its infancy. Anyone thinking him to buy, to get in the hope that a roughly equivalent device for Thermomix, I must clearly disappoint. The two devices are to be compared in any way. The Thermomix has remained on the far more sophisticated functions, while the only real news in Home Cooker is this that he stirs independently. Everything else you can bring with Dämpfschalen, vapor pressure pots, slicers, popular pots and pans as well.
Of course, this space need on the stove, but the Home Cooker is now also not very small, and if he consumes less power in return, I do not know.
A possible increase of Homecookers opposite the thermal mix is ​​probably that you can prepare enough for five people quite while the Thermomix my knowledge rather is suitable for up to four people. Here, I can only rely on hearsay me but, not on their own experience.
It is a nice gimmick, but a real kitchen assistant in my opinion not. And for this, I feel the price of 399 clearly too high - Jamie Oliver and Philips, which I regard as much - or not.