Not long ago I was invited to a lovely event organised by Tefal where they told us all about their amazing Cook4Me product. As most of you know, I don’t cook and it’s usually my hubby Nick who cooks at home, generally during the weekends (we tend to cook frozen or more convenient meals during the week as we are all so busy!). When I heard about Cook4Me I was very intrigued about it and wanted to find out more!
The idea of being able to provide healthy, home cooked meals to our girls in an easy way and in less than 30 minutes sounded amazing to me. I thought that this would be a great solution for us as I would be able to cook some meals during the week for my girls if it was not going to take me a lot of time and it was going to be easy and quick to prepare recipes. The idea sounded fantastic to me!
Basically, the Cook4Me is a smart multi cooker that does the hard work for you! This smart pressure cooker comes with 50 pre-programmed recipes. It guides you simply and speedily through cooking delicious meals for up to 6 people.
The event I attended was held in a lovely house in North London. The house had a gorgeous kitchen which was perfect to try out and test all the features of this amazing cooker. There were about 9 other bloggers and we were separated into smaller groups so we could cook four different recipes. While the first two groups cooked starters the other two groups were resting and being pampered in another room. That was just fabulous! 😉
To begin with we were all gathered to be told all about this cooker, in terms of how it works and what features it has. I was so impressed to hear all the great recipes you could do with it in a short amount of time!
You can see a short video of our day prepared by Tefal below:
Main Features:
- FAST – Over 30 recipes you can cook in less than 15 minutes
- EASY – Step-by-step instructions and automatic cooking times and temperatures
- DELICIOUS – 50 pre-set mouthwatering home-cooked recipes
Between all of us we prepared two starters (Italian Vegetable Soup with Croutons and Potato & Leek Soup) and two main dishes (Tuna Puttanesca and Butternut Squash Risotto)
My partner in crime for this cooking challenge was Sarah from Mumzilla. I was glad to hear that she likes cooking and she knew what to do so I said that I was going to follow her lead ;-). We were asked to cook the Italian Vegetable Soup With Croutons that takes about 10 minutes to do. We were able to choose for how many people we wanted to cook this meal for so we did it for the maximum amount which was 6 people as there were a lot of us in the house.
We needed carrots, chopped onion, tomato pasta sauce with onion and garlic, vegetable stock, canned canellini beans and sugar. We had to put all the ingredients together and then put the specific settings on the cooker, preheat it for a few minutes and then put the ingredients inside. The cooker does all this for you, prompting you when necessary so you just literally have to wait for it to do all the hard work! As I said in the title of the post we can now enjoy life with this cooker and be able to eat yummy and healthy food.
I’ve shared another short video from Tefal below showing how easy it was to cook this meal:
The best part of this event was that we were able to get one of these amazing Cook4Me cookers too! I was so excited when I was told that. It was great news, and the funny thing is that when I mentioned this to Nick he was even more excited than me. He was asking me every day if the cooker had arrived – it was so funny! He really likes cooking and he was so looking forward to testing it at home!
I will do a separate post with more details about the meals we cooked at home but so far we have prepared:
- Italian Vegetable Soup (starter) – I liked this so much that we tried it at home too
- Pesto Chicken Risotto (main dish)
- Chilli con Carne (main dish)
- Sweet and Sour Pork (main dish)
- Bread and Butter Pudding (dessert)
You can see below another video from Tefal about my thoughts on the Cook4Me:
We have also prepared rice which it is really good and quick at too! You can find out more about Tefal and its Cook4Me on Facebook, Twitter or You Tube.
You can buy the Cook4me on their official online store or from other retailers such as Argos, Currys, Debenhams, John Lewis, Lakeland or Amazon.
Have you heard of the Cook4Me before? What do you think of its features? Do you normally use a pressure cooker? Will this be a great help for you? Please leave a comment below as I would love to hear what you think.
*Disclaimer: I received this fantastic Cook4me from Tefal after attending an event for the purpose of this review but all opinions and thoughts are my own. I was also offered the opportunity to giveaway the same cooker.
Thanks for stopping by,
Love you all ❤️
Franca 💋
I don’t have a pressure cooker at home so would love to win one. My mum has a one which is about 40 years old and loves to make soup in it! The site has some great recipe ideas so I wouldn’t certainly stick to making just soups! The tuna puttanesca and pesto chicken risotto sound lovely. I would love to see some family meal ideas from Spain, Greece etc which would remind us of our holidays abroad.
This does look so stylish. I don’t own a pressure cooker. Would love to try making the sweet and sour pork x
Gosh it’s the first time I’ve seen this cook4me cooker, it looks amazing, so many good features to it.
I’d like to try my favourite which is haddock fillets & vegetables. I don’t have a pressure cooker at home so this would be a brand new experience for me. I’m not the best cook so this would help me big time 🙂
This look amazing, I would love one of these gadgets. It looks like it would make family life run so much more smoothly! Such a great time saver for busy mums xx
we have a big family i would make curry for them
i wouldnt mind trying the chilli con carne, they look really good!
This would make an amazing curry. It would cook the meat quickly & be great at infusing all the flavours together
I don’t have a pressure cooker but I’d love to have one and this one lookis so stylish! I think I’d start with some chilli, curries, and stews but I can imagine using it loads.
I don’t have a pressure cooker but if I did I would start by making basic dishes like chilli and curries. Maybe progress to puddings later on. It looks relatively easy to use. I would like to win as it would save me loads of time.
I have to say that I haven’t heard of the Cook4me before i read your article but it does sound really versatile. I love my kitchen gadgets and make surev that i do use them. I used to have a pressure cooker but don’t use it now as I have an induction hob and it doesn’t work on that. I would use the Cook4me to make soups, chilli, curry … I think there are so many things that could be made in it. I would imagine, same as for all new gadgets, it will take some getting used to but once you know what you are doing it will be a massive time saver. Thank you so much for your article, Franca. I enjoyed it massively. Chris
I have never had a pressure cooker but would love one! I have had my eye on the Cook4Me for some time but just cannot afford it. I would love to win! Fingers crossed 🙂
I don’t have one, but I do remember my mum having one and using it mainly for casseroles. I’m amazed at your bread and butter pudding and would love to try making that in it!
this looks so good x
I currently have an old pressure cooker that I have not used for years, a new one would be much appreciated to help speed up the cooking process. The tefal looks lovely and very useful
don’t have a pressure cooker, but this looks good and being able to cook a range of dishes is amazing
Looks very interesting. I don’t have a pressure cooker only a slow cooker. This would be great when time is limited and I haven’t really made up my mind what to cook for tea as it takes less time to get something on the go and made.
Never had a pressure cooker, actually asked for one for Xmas!
it looks good and easy to use. Dont have anything similar at home so I`d probably start by making a few curries/caseroles etc
This looks amazing, love that it has lots of pre-programmed ideas
top prize
Looks a nice bit of kit. But is it really a pressure cooker if it doesn’t shake and rattle with steam billowing out like my nan’s use to ?
Not got one here at present but would make a nice mutton stew.
Looks great, anything that makes life easier is welcome in my kitchen
Fab prize count me in!
I love the look of this, saves a lot of time and I like how its all compact. I would use for curries, stews, soups and casseroles
I still have my grans old pressure cooker and I must say that vegetables taste so much better. It would be ideal for my with a small kitchen to have just one gadget that can do so much. I would probably start by making a hearty casserole and it would be well used in my house as I always make meals from scratch and the Tefal Cook4me would make life a little easier. Wanted one for a while, been hinting to my partner but he’s seems to have gone deaf.