Tefal Cook4Me+

My Gas Stove and Oven isn't working, so I have been using this Telfal Cook4Me and it's attachment steam basket, but it has recipe's on it and easy to use and best all in one cooking ever... YOU CAN COOK A 3 COURSE MEAL, STARTER, MAIN & DESSER.. Show details ·  2

Tefal Cook4Me is 100% a Faulty Product – I have only used my tefal cook4me for roughly 3 months and maybe 2 or 3x every 2 weeks. It is already now leaking from sides although I never put too much water. Also, when you don't put lots of water, machine keeps making sounds asking you to put water. Very annoying tbh. I tried to bring it to local maintenance repairer and turns out after… Read more

driving 30 mins, the shop, called "All Appliances", at Fairfield, VIC, told me that they can't repair pressure cooker. I took it to different other appliances shop, and none of them wanna repair pressure cooker. This is a very faulty bad item. I will never ever buy tefal appliances anymore in my life.

Excellent for time poor, hard working parents & shift workers – From rice, to biryani, soups, stews, curries, & stroganoff - deserts and puddings the Tefal work for me, saves time, has recipes and softens root vegetables & pulled meat quickly & keeps it warm until you're home. Show details ·  1

Tefal Cook4Me+ – Since receiving my Tefal Cook4Me I have tried recipies from the preset menu, like the lamb shanks, macaroni etc. I have also cooked some of my own recipies without the preset menu including risotto, beef rendang, beef stroganoff, pulled pork etc. I love how you can get some assistance by adding the type of protein to get an estimated time from for… Read more

the cook too. All the menu items come in handy and it's good to have these options. It's a versatile and handy machine to make tasty home made meals in a short period of time. As long as you clean the bowl after use it does not retain any smells, it can easily go into the dishwasher too. Making it really easy to clean. The Tefal Cook4Me+ has been a lifesaver in my busy working household.

How did I live without this? – I’ve just started using my COOK4ME. I am so impressed with the size as when entertaining my family, I wanted to be able to cook for us all, so with the options of cooking for 2, 4 and 6 – this is perfect. The options to brown and to keep warm are brilliant! I have a slow cooker and never bother browning meat as it means an extra pan, extra time… Read more

and effort. With the Tefal COOK4ME, I can do it all in one – perfect! I also love the ‘keep warm’ function with a partner who often works late, its an absolute blessing.

The convenience of reducing cooking time by 2/3rds is awesome and the pressure cooking brings out the flavour in the food like nothing else, simple dishes become gourmet events (not exaggerating). Because it's a closed system, you resist the urge to over-season the food and the natural flavours are the star.

On opening the box, I was greeted with the Tefal Cook4Me multicooker, a steam basket, the ceramic coated bowl and user manuals. Aesthetically speaking, I really liked the look of the cooker – although it was larger than I expected, the black gloss contrasted really nicely with the metallic detailing to give an appearance that wouldn’t look out of place in a kitchen featured on Grand Designs.

I had a quick flick through the booklets – one of which is a user manual and the other has the ingredients with recipes – and everything looked self-explanatory. As we were nearly out of food in the house, we couldn’t make any of the pre-programmed recipes just yet, but instead, we chose a few recipes which we wanted to make in the upcoming week and added these ingredients to our supermarket online delivery.

I was really surprised at how ‘normal’ the ingredients were. I had wondered whether we’d need to buy expensive items or find speciality shops for the rarest of spices, but a lot of the recipes constituted of things we’d normally buy – we just needed one or two additional items like natural yoghurt, crème fraiche or curry paste. I also noticed that quite a few of the ingredients could be used in different recipes, so it wasn’t like we’d have to eat the same meal three days in a row to use up a ingredient.

Of the 50 pre-programmed recipes in the Cook4Me – which includes starers, mains and desserts – the meals we decided to cook to start with were Bacon and Leek Risotto, Chicken Tikka Masala, Farmers Chicken, Pesto Chicken Risotto and Pot Roast Cider Chicken – obviously over consecutive days, not all at once! I decided to make us a Chicken Tikka Masala. Using the recipe booklet that came with the Cook4Me, I measured out all of the ingredients beforehand, then turned on the cooker. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect but was pleasantly surprised at how easy and intuitive it was to use. You simply turn and press the rotary dial to select what you want – e.g. which recipe and for how many people (2, 4 or 6) – then follow the step-by-step instructions which are shown on the LED display.

I found the process very easy. I selected the recipe, chopped the ingredients – with added mushroom and pepper which wasn’t in the recipe – and then used the Cook4Me to prepare the food. This included browning the chicken, adding the veg, natural yoghurt and the curry paste before closing the lid for 10 minutes.

Something I particularly like about the Tefal Cook4Me is that it’s smart. It has 50 recipes pre-programmed, so it tells you what to do and how to do it – almost like you have your own robot chef in the kitchen. However, you can also do manual cooking should you wish to make different meals designed by yourself and can also cook individual ingredients like rice, meat, fruit or veg. There are also other things, like it goes into warming mode after the meal is cooked so that it doesn’t get cold and you can also set a delayed start so that it turns on at a future time. As you can probably tell, I’m very happy with the Cook4Me. It’s simple to use, meals are produced quickly (33 in less than 15 mins supposedly) and everything has tasted nice. We were getting a bit bored with eating the same things each week, so the additional meals we have through the Tefal Cook4Me have helped reinvigorate the cooking in the kitchen.

Being so easy to use and to clean has made the COOK4ME a perfect addition to our home.

Welcome to the world of join the dots cooking! – Imagine a cooking device that lets you pressure cook in the usual way. Now imagine that it comes with a book with 150 or so recipes with ingredients for up to 6 people, but no instructions! Then imagine it also has a free smartphone app which has shopping lists and suggestions for meals like tonight's dinner. Just as a bonus, imagine that the… Read more

machine itself TELLS YOU how to cook that dinner! Got all that? You have just imagined what the Cook4Me can do! Cook4Me is a "smart" pressure cooker, so it can do all the things that a pressure cooker does, but as mentioned, it is far, far more versatile. This thing is so smart that someone with no cooking experience at all could produce a very good meal both easily and in a short time. Both the cookbook that comes with it, and also the app, have ingredient lists for a large variety of meals...roasts, stews, casseroles, pasta dishes, curries, puddings..you name it! All you have to do is get your ingredients (which is where the phone app comes in...makes it very easy to shop) and choose how much you need-2,4 or 6 people. You can then use the phone app or the Cook4Me itself which will then tell you what to do every step of the way! If you are a bit time poor but still want a very good home cooked meal, or if you want to get the kids or the non-chefs involved in cooking, it is hard to imagine an easier way. It has plenty of adjustment so you can vary steps and cooking times to suit as you wish, so once you are familiar with it, off you go. It is not hard to clean: the main bowl is non-stick and washes easily, and there are just a couple of things to take apart, but it is less fiddly than most pressure cookers.

What is the food like? Delicious! It may cook quickly, but every meal we have had has been tender and very tasty. We have had bolognese, butter chicken, yakitori, soups, roast duck breast, delicious golden syrup puddings...the list goes on. It has now become a valued and much used addition to our kitchen. Downsides: there is a small learning curve; perhaps a little fiddly to clean (but not bad), and perhaps the biggest one is that it lets out a LOT of steam, esp. at the end of the cooking cycle...Tefal advises keeping it away from a wall or anything overhead, and this is good advice.

VERDICT: 5/5- For ease of use, speed, versatility and convenience, this thing is a winner. Highly recommmended!

4Y Old COOKFORME+ Liquid Explosion – We have had the Tefal pressure cooker for just over four years now and so far its operation has been reasonably reliable with only the replacement of the pot twice due to the nonstick surface, letting go. It also has some bubbling around its chrome parts but for the amount of use would’ve expected a little bit better. Tonight, my wife made a… Read more

pressure cook soup inside the cookforme+ and while cooking the liquid came out of the vent hole and all over the bench and inside the machine. At first I thought we must’ve just overfilled it, but this was not the case as upon inspection the pot was less than 1/3 full. This has never happened before. I’m suspecting the seal on the inner lid must be U/S but some further testing is required after the device has dried out. My biggest gripe is where the inner lid fits into the outer lid, the cavity is full of soup and there doesn’t seem to be any online resources on how to take this apart or clean from the manufacturer.

Style over substance – I've had this one for a few years now. The searing brazing function isn't that great, you have to turn it to high to get anywhere and then is seems very intermittent in the bursts of heat. The rubber foot at the front of the pot comes off and you have to remove covers to replace it. The menu system is convoluted, way to many steps just to turn it… Read more

off let alone do anything complicated. The bowl loses it's coating too easily, handle ends came off ( just as well the handles leak and get grungy inside!) . It routinely complains about low fluid level when it is in fact OK. Finally it is now losing far too much moisture during cooking (1.5l in less than an hour), the seals seem OK, the inner lid has been cleaned and checked but the problem continues. It works OK but really I think you can do better. I am replacing it with the Phillips or the Breville. I will not be purchasing again and frankly I will be down rating Tefal in general due to this experience.