He stirred and boiled, but needs a lot of help

I have the Home Cooker now for several months in use, but do not use it every day, but only for certain recipes, especially for stews, soups, meat dishes. Optimal he is goulash, which you can simmer 2 hours prior to himself, does not have to worry about and the meat is tender as butter.

Unfortunately, the side dishes to cook for dishes not the same as I initially thought (pasta / potatoes / rice), so I had made re rather like on the stove. In Home Cooker is too cumbersome: eg noodles need take 10 minutes where the double cooking time and long pasta like spaghetti do not fit on the whole in the strainer.. Ever the device is not for people who come home at night and sometimes just want to quickly get a meal on the table. Many of the dishes need a cooking time of about 1 hour and completely alone the Home Cooker does not cook well, in between must be added or be time to check whether everything is properly seared depending on the recipe ingredients.

So it's a completely different way of cooking, while I usually 30-45 min. Time einplane for cooking, I have with the Home Cooker usually earlier start with the preparation, but then I occasionally also time to clean up the kitchen, etc. and it is also somehow relaxed. The pot stirring constantly to, so that nothing can burn, and logs on to the set time with beep that the next step (add ingredients / change temperature) is due. The operation is very easy, if you depend on the prescribed recipes. In cookbook unfortunately only about 20, but the Internet can be found there also already supplies. If the appropriate experience is there, can certainly be your own recipes to the Home Cooker adapt.

The cutting tower I find practical and use it mainly when I have a lot to crush or even freeze to inventories. Smaller quantities rather I cut by hand, which is faster than afterwards to clean the appliance. The blades are too tight on the disc and when you switch one needs to have a certain tactic she accidents abzubekommen again (best to press on the edge of the bottom and top over it put a towel, so they do not fly away, or you cut yourself accidentally). It is good that you can snip the ingredients directly into the pot or in the strainer if you still want to rinse for example leeks or not the complete clippings for eating requires.

All parts (pan, paddle, plastic parts from the cutting tower) may in the dishwasher. The blades in principle, but I sink generally by hand and stow them afterwards in a plastic box. So they are kept safe and will not soon blunt.

Conclusion:
The Home Cooker is no all-round device, so I can understand when someone says that he does not need "such nonsense" or him as a high-tech pot is too expensive.
Whether the Home Cooker is a workload, is directed mainly to the respective cooking habits. Who has cooked quickly with microwave and mainly feeds on ready meals and pasta, so can probably not do much. In addition, it also takes away a lot of (cabinet) space and occupies 2 sockets when the cutting tower runs parallel.

A real time saver I have not by the Home Cooker, but it's still fun to cook with it, because you do not have to keep an eye on the pot and can burn anything. Compared with similar products it moves still in the lower price range, but its deployment options are also limited and not extendable by appropriate accessories.