Kogan 900W 6L Electric Pressure Cooker Questions & Answers

I used mine once and threw it out.

The Kogan model does not have the ability to adjust times in minutes. What I do is get the recipe cooking times and use my iphone timer. I do use the rice setting however and it works fine. I have bought an Instant Pot which is fully programable.

Thanks. So for every function we choose we have to check our time manually and switch off the cooker. I am a vegetarian and not sure of substitute options of meat poulty options. Can you advise

I tried to use mine once, epic fail. Binned it.

I can see timer to set when I click on rice to 2mts or so.but not sure it that works. Still researching .if I have time option then this is the best cooker I would say

i think press meat and then start before the 10 sec is up press time then +

No manual override.wont be able set high or low pressure.1 set pressure on all modes.suggest texture button for quick,standard,longer..cook.+& - buttons.

Hello Wendy, I had a look at my own cooker and I was able to get to 179 minutes by continually pushing the + button. So yes 60 minutes is no problem

Regards Paul

Hello Monika, there is a little pin at the front of the lid, it is the locking pin, is it free? It should spring back and forth easily, can you push it back and forth with your finger. Also make sure you are turning the lid anti clockwise to close it.

Could be that something inside the locking mechanism on the lid has broken or fouled up with food material, if so I don't know how you would fix that, not really safe to mess with a pressure cooker mechanism.

Good luck :)

Hi Monika,

Thank you for your question, the best course of action here would be to contact our Support team.

You can call us on 1300 304 292 or submit an online inquiry here: external link 

Hi, Thank you for your purchase! The temperature is between 115 degrees Celsius and 140 degrees Celsius, I believe this would be high in the sort of recipes you're referring to. Please feel free as well to get in contact with our Support team, you can call us on 1300 304 292 or submit an online inquiry here: external link 

Hello, I am not sure if this same cooker is still available, but mine has 6 preset times for different foods with the time shown for each food. I just select a food that has a time close to the time I want, then I press the "+" and "-" buttons to get the exact time I am looking for.

Hope this helps

Regards Paul

Hi Mike, Thank you for your purchase. To set a time to cook, you select one of the preset cooking functions. These are listed on page 14 of the user manual available here: external link  You can then press the "-" or "+" buttons to adjust this and set the exact time if your recipe gives a different one.

If you have any further questions at any stage, you can always contact our team on 1300 304 292 or submit a question online here: external link 

OK. So from experimentation here's how mine works. For functions YOGHURT, SAUTE and SLOW COOK when you press those buttons you get a time that you can alter with the + or - keys and then press START to begin.

For all the other cooking selection buttons when you press them you DONT see a time. just "ON" flashing. + and - buttons do nothing. When you press START you then get ON solid.

The adjustment procedure seems to be press button, say for eg: SOUP, then press TIMER then adjust with + or - then press START.

Now how hard would it have been to say that/or put it in the instructions that come with the cooker? I'm all for not wasting paper but I'm pretty annoyed that I paid good money for this device and it is supplied with inadequate and incomplete user instructions.

When you do that, you are actually setting the delay to start cooking, not the total time of cooking.

It is very confusing.

Hi Karel, Thanks for your question! At this stage, we don't have a recipe book for the unit, however, there are a couple of example recipes to help you get acquainted on page 8 of your user manual here:

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You can also find a wealth of generic pressure cooker recipes online.

If you need any further assistance, please don't hesitate to contact our team on 1300 304 292 or at the following link:

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I know this question is 8 months old, but we've only just bought our cooker (KAPRSCOOKKZA) and thought the same! The TIMER function is to set the COOKING END TIME. That is the time you want the food to be ready. It doesn't extend cooking time. ie: prepare at 11:00am, function button (meat, chook, etc) timer 6 hours, will be ready at 5pm.

To adjust the COOKING time use the TEXTURE button. Standard is the approximate time as shown on page 6 of the downloadable manual. QUICK and LONGER are exactly that, but we haven't worked by what amount, yet.

Hope this helps someone.

Hi Steve, I played around with the Texture setting on some of the cook cycles and noted the following cooking times, this is after warm up. Cooking Time Variations - Texture Settings (KAPRSCOOKZA)

Texture Meat/Stew Poultry Beans/Chili Soup Cake

Quick 25 15 30 20 35

Standard 30 20 35 30 36

Longer 40 30 40 40 40

Note: These are cooking times after "Warm Up" cycle has finished.

Thank you Steve and IronMaiden for this info. The user manual doesn't explain any of this very well and it took me a while to understand how it all worked after some experimentation myself. Knowing that the cooking time doesn't show in the panel until after the initial warm up period really helped me.

I thought I would be able to adjust the cooking time but now I know I cannot. I know it's the bottom end of the market for pressure cookers so now I know it's a limitation, I'm okay with it.

I called Kogan for assistance as I thought they would be all over it, but they just wanted me to return it for testing and replacement. It's unfortunate the User Manual isn't more helpful either.

Hopefully posting this will help someone else.

Hi, Thanks for your question. This particular product is not suitable for steaming purposes, however, it is suited to a number of other things. You can find some more information regarding it's intended purposes on the product listing or the user manual (at the links below):

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If you have any other questions at all, please don't hesitate to contact us on 1300 304 292 or at the following link:

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Hi Linda, Thanks for your question! Can you please confirm that you've followed the user manual instructions to close the lid? This information is in step 5 on page 5 of the user manual at the link below:

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If you require any further assistance at all, please contact our team on 1300 304 292 or at the following link:

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Hi, Thanks for your question! We don't have a recipe book for this product, however, a quick Google search of 'pressure cooker recipes' returns a wealth of results that you'll be able to use.

If you require assistance with the functions of the product specifically, don't hesitate to contact us on 1300 304 292 or at the following link:

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On my kogan pressure cooker you choose one of the preset buttons like "rice" or "soup" and then you can fine tune that preset time but pressing the + or - buttons, hope that helps :)

Hard to answer that one as I didn't notice any smell with mine. Maybe there are others who have experienced this?

Thank you, Paul.

I wish I can get a valid explanation soon. I'm pretty concerned about leaching of the material, that the pot is made of, into food that is cooked in the pot, resulting in toxins in the food and food poisoning.

Hello Mybidda, you probably already have the instructions provided by Kogan, but if not you can download them with this link: external link . Just press any of the preset buttons (eg "bean tendon") and then adjust the time to what you think is appropriate using the "+" "-" buttons, that's all I do.

There are quite a few buttons on the pressure cooker but I only use the ones for "fish", "rice", "chicken", "meat/porridge", "soup", "bean tendon" and then I adjust the time with the "+" and "-" buttons.

The other buttons really don't do much of any value so just ignore them.

Really it is just a bit trial and error, pressure cooking is all about time, if you cook something and it is over cooked you just have to cook it for a shorter time next time. (maybe 5 minutes less or something) or under cooked just add time etc.

I find that anything over 35 minutes is way to long for casseroles and over 45 minutes is too long for corned meat.

The preset for "Rice" seems to be spot on at 8 minutes.

Hope that helps :) Paul

Thanks Paul. Yes I did get the instructions from Kogan's website but didn't find them very useful. Do you know what temperature the different preset buttons are? The 'bean tendon' button confused me so not sure what types of foods or cooking that one is for.

I did find the pressure cooker very quiet to run. And because it took time to heat up and then the timing started counting down I didn't really know what was happening or if anything was happening so I ended up restarting it thinking I had done something wrong. All good. Thanks for your reply.

Just Google "pressure cooker recipes" and plenty will come up. The best site, in my opinion, for pressure cooker recipes is external link