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Enjoying Life with Tefal Cook4Me Review

amomentwithfranca · 24 August 2016 · 237 Comments

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!

Enjoying Life with Tefal Cook4Me Review

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.

Cook4me collage 3

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! 😉

Instructions and Features of Cookme

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:

Tefal Cook4Me 2016 Blogger Event

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)

With Sarah

Me showing Cook4me

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.

Cook4me collage 2

Italian soup

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:

Tefal Cook4Me Recipe - Italian Vegetable Soup with Croutons

 

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:

Cook4me collage 1

  • 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:

Tefal Cook4Me Review – A Moment with Franca

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  💋

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  1. Rachel Craig says

    27 August 2016 at

    No I do not have a pressure cooker at home. My Mum had a pressure cooker many years ago. I’d love to try the Tefal Cook4Me as I do love food. I like the idea of the Butternut Squash Risotto. Fiancé would use it with guidance from myself, and we could both have some delicious, nutritious meals :- Heaven!

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  2. Becky Duffy says

    27 August 2016 at

    I would love to own a pressure cooker and this Tefal Cook4Me looks great! As an Irish Family the first recipe we’d cook is an Irish Stew 🙂

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  3. Hannah Budding Smiles says

    27 August 2016 at

    This looks fab, I’d love to be able to make risotto without the usual hassle!xx

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  4. dorothyjk says

    27 August 2016 at

    this looks like an amazing piece of technology. I’ve been nervous of pressure cookers since ( a long time ago) I witnessed a friend get hurt when the valve blocked and the food exploded out when he opened it…
    However, the best bit about this is that it is totally safe! It seems to cook fantastic food and it is all so easy Ideal for any working mother with little time for cookin. would be a really quick way of cooking winter casseroles, and of course, fantastic ally health soups

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  5. Gemma Massey says

    28 August 2016 at

    I’ve never owned a pressure cooker but would love to and this looks fab. I’d love to try and make quicker easier meals lovely soups and casseroles lobby’s and stews I love them the best xx

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  6. Hannah says

    28 August 2016 at

    This looks great … perfect timesaver

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  7. judy kennedy says

    28 August 2016 at

    I have always been a bit scared of pressure cookers. However if I can speed up my three hour Bolognese sauce then that would be a big plus.

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  8. Lisa King says

    28 August 2016 at

    It looks fab and we would definitely cook the chilli con carne with it

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  9. Ali Duke says

    28 August 2016 at

    I don’t have a slow cooker, but my friends tell me they are great. I would love to try sweet ans sour pork, yum x

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  10. justine meyer says

    28 August 2016 at

    We had a pressure cooker when we were younger and my mum loved it I would love to try one again

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  11. Sarah - Arthurwears says

    28 August 2016 at

    Looks great Franca – I’ve entered the giveaway! Although I accidently unfollowed you on Instagram whilst trying to visit a photo so if you get a follow notification again that’s why! Xx

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  12. Louise Fairweather says

    29 August 2016 at

    I love that it saves time – I would try the thai green curry

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  13. jayne hobson says

    29 August 2016 at

    id like to see vegertarian receipes

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  14. Meryl Rees says

    29 August 2016 at

    I’m intrigued! My mum used to use a stove top pressure cooker when I was a kid but I’ve never had the courage to try.

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  15. Matthew Warman says

    29 August 2016 at

    Fantastic prize!

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  16. Gnei Usama says

    29 August 2016 at

    I love to use a pressure cooker in my daily cooking but I lost mine while we move our house and couldn’t afford another one at the moment. If I lucky enough to win this I would use it for plenty of recipe I am sure. Thank you for this super chance.

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  17. P Wendy Clayton says

    29 August 2016 at

    I have never seen this before, I do not have a pressure cooker although I have had one in the past but we found we didn’t use it much. This is more modern and looks really easy to use and I would use it to make chilli con carne first

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  18. Zoe Howarth says

    29 August 2016 at

    This looks so good – so much better than my old style pressure cooker which frankly I’m a bit scared to use!! The Tefal Cook4Me looks so easy to use…. and a lot less frightening!!

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  19. felicity williams says

    29 August 2016 at

    This looks fabulous and is so stylish compared to my old pressure cooker. I would love to make a stew or curry in it 😀

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  20. Jade says

    29 August 2016 at

    I’m interested in getting one of these. Anything which make meals quicker and easier is sounds great.

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  21. Solange says

    30 August 2016 at

    I think the Cook4me looks great. I like the look of all the features. I would love to try the Pesto Chicken Risotto and the Sweet and Sour Pork. I don’t have a pressure cooker at home which is why I would love to win this cooker.

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  22. Kerry Purves says

    31 August 2016 at

    I would love to win this to make more interesting meals for my kids, I’m not much of a cook but this seems to make things more simple.

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  23. Emma Fox says

    1 September 2016 at

    I don’t have a pressure cooker at the moment. I return to work in September and this looks like a time saver so would be great 🙂

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  24. Rebecca taylor says

    1 September 2016 at

    I dont have a pressure cooker but this looks amazing and saves time too which is imperative in my life! I think the chilli would be a definite favourite in our house.

    Reply
  25. Julie Ward says

    2 September 2016 at

    The family would actually get a meal made if they are so easy to use, I don’t cook very often its help yourself or starve

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