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We, as a family, are vegetarian. 5 of us, 2 with food allergies (coeliac and dairy allergy)
2/5 are 4 and 2
One 13
Then 2 adults
Lots of curry/rice
Pasta
Casseroles
Would this work well? Currently have a gas oven and hob but moving to a gas hob and electric oven
You mean like a Ninja Foodie thing? Mum has one, she's had it a month and I don't think she's used the hob or oven since. There's only her and dad though so not a lot of mouths to feed.
Not an air fryer
To save anyone else the bother, I’ve just googled multi cooker cos I didn’t know that that is. A ninja foodie is a multi cooker. A multi cooker offers pressure cooker and slow cooker functions and a few things in between. Can’t answer OPs question but perhaps that clarification will help others. And if that’s not what the OP is talking about that will help too 🙂
Sounds like fairly unique circumstances, but if you *do* mean a Ninja Foodie-like thing, then I can see how having an extra appliance which does different functions would help. I bought one second hand a couple of months ago, mainly to see what all the air fryer fuss was about, but the other functions have proved really useful, particularly the pressure cooker.
Looks like a slow cooker. Looks like everything you eat is either one pot or oven anyway. Unless there’s a particular problem with your current cooking set up I don’t see how this could help.
I’d spend the extra £20 on an instant pot duo, seems to do all of what the multicooker does plus pressure cooking, which is great for veggie stuff. We do veg Indian food a few times a week in ours.
It works fine as a rice cooker but we find it easier to have a separate one (cheap is ok). You can do “pot in pot” cooking in the instant pot to do rice with another dish but the rice is never quite as good imo and harder to get the timings right.
As above I would strongly recommend getting one of the multipots with a pressure cooker function, it's a game changer for the sort of cooking you're talking about.
I love being able to make soups, stews, curries, sauces etc from a standing start in 20 mins. Good for rice dishes too. Big energy saving and doesn't fill your house with moisture like leaving a pot simmering away for 2 hours.
It's not essential but the multi cookers with the air frier built in are pretty cool for casseroles, pies and things like that. E.g. cook up a stew for 25mins in pressure cooker, open it up and put potatoes on then roast for 10mins and you have a proper hot pot with a crispy top in half an hour.
It’s not essential but the multi cookers with the air frier built in are pretty cool for casseroles, pies and things like that.
Multi cookers are excellent for the best steak you'll ever cook at home. We have an Instant Pot Duo Crisp, tried the sous vide function (I know it's not a proper sous vide) and oh my word. A 500g rib-eye sous vide at 60°C for 2 hours and then finished of with the air-fryer set to 'Roast' is heavenly.
I’ve had an instant pot 7-in-1 for years, and I use it more than anything else in the kitchen. It’s great for all kinds of dried pulses - you can pressure cook them instead of having to soak them overnight then boil them forever. Saves a fortune in tinned chickpeas, kidney beans etc.
Also really handy for speeding up curries, soups, stews… anything like that really. Means I can cook them up in a reasonably short time and don’t need to be super organised the day before or whatever.
I rarely use the slow cooking function, mostly just for pulled pork or similar, it’s the pressure cooker that I find might useful, with the sauté and keep warm functions at either end of the process.
They do a mini version but I find the big one is useful for batch cooking. Also, it’s easy to clean - wire scrubber on the stainless steel inner pan is no problem if you do get something stuck on.