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 💋
Would love to win this as it would make life so much easier. It looks really easy to use too. I have a pressure cooker, quite old, and I must admit a bit scary to use, so love the fact this acts as a sort of pressure cooker and slow cooker in one so I can have a hot meal prepared when we come home in the evening. I like the look of the Sausage and Bean Stew plus the potato and leek soup recipes
This is a fab time saver. I need one in my life!
I’ve never tried a pressure cooker – they always looked a bit scary to me and my Mum always had trouble getting the lid on hers.
This one however looks great – much easier to use and perfect for my chunky vegetable soupd – yum!
I love making marmalade in my pressure cooker because it always softens up the peel and makes such a lovely consistency before adding the sugar etc. However, my pressure cooker is very old now.
Looks like an easy to use and some great recipes for it. My mum is a big pressure cooker fan but this is state of the art, make me what to try it. The only think I know how to make in it is potatoes, so will get some tips from my mum.
This looks AMAZING!!! I would love it, as I have to cook dinner every night (so I would use it for main dishes frequently, as well as soups). If I won it I’d be very tempted to give it to my son, as he is off to Uni next week, and I reckon it would make his life so much easier 🙂 I am SO impressed with the features (it cooks for you – what’s not to love!)
I’ve never had a pressure cooker, but my mother in law used to have one, and knocked soup up in a fraction of the time it takes me to make it!
Thanks for a brilliant giveaway, that would certainly make life much easier. Giving someone hours back every day is a wonderful gift 🙂 xx
No i have not got a pressure cooker, but after reading your review and how quick and simple to use , i will be looking for one. Love the recipe for the Italian vegetable soup , how much is it?
Would make a lovely curry.
This gadget looks like it would make family meals so much easier and quicker (maybe my partner would even be able to cook with it)
For years i used a pressure cooker,I loved it it was so quick for doing dinners.Then it started playing up & was hard to get the parts so got rid.But WOW how they have come on still quick but so stylish,Love the shiny black looks so cool.I would like to experiment more than i did when i had my old one.Never did rice so sweet & sour would be first on my list.
I don’t have anything like this – it would be great to try as I am working more hours now.
i love this it would save me so much time for cooking with my large family of five kids and a husband, i could make meals in half the time, i would love to try a stew in this. and no i dont have a pressure cooker, I haven’t ever used one either
We don’t have a pressure cooker but my mother in law swears by hers.
I have always wanted a pressure cooker to expand the repertoire of recipes that we use. The Tefal pressure cooker looks a fantastic example, and I would love to broaden my horizons with it.
I don’t have a pressure cooker but remember my mom always using one when we were kids and she swore by it! This sounds brilliant, just what our family meal times need!
Looks like the ideal replacement for my burnt out pressure cooker (which I had for years and years and used frequently particularly when my children and grandchildren were small). Now we are retired this looks like a perfect way to cook quick and very healthy meals for my husband and myself and would tempt me to try new recipes – I am afraid we are rather stuck in a rut meal wise and tend to stick to the tried and tested!
I think it looks really handy, I don’t have one at home but would love to try out recipes like beef casserole in it
I love the fact it cooks so many dishes and soups and rice is a bonus, I had a pressure cooker years ago used to do the cabbage in it on a Sunday. have such a busy life would be marvellous.
I really love the recipes. More vegetarian recipes would be brilliant
It looks amazing and great to make lovely food quickly.
This looks so handy I would try chilli to start with, I don’t already have a pressure cooker
I’ve not cooked with a pressure cooker since I lived at home, but would love to try one again – certainly we never made anything exciting in it, unlike the recipes above. I’d love to try one so I can get proper meals on the table in a reasonable time after finishing work.
I don’t own one but if I did I’d try to cook some nice stews =)
I love pressure cooker as a child my mother always made meals in it as she and my father had to work long shifts and we needed food on the table on the end of the day
I would love to win this and would use it to cook a collection of vegetarian soups and other dishes like vegetarian chilli. I used my old fashioned pressure cooker a lot, but am not able to use it now as I have changed my cooker to an induction range and the old pressure cooker doesn’t work on it.