The multicooker several years ago moved from the status of a newfangled miracle of technology to indispensable helpers in the kitchen. Many manufacturers offer multicooker for every taste: cheap and expensive, small, designed for one person, and bulky - for a large family, with a small set of basic functions and with dozens of built-in programs. Which one to choose depends on the specific wishes for this kitchen appliance. In the description of multi-cookers, you can find such an item as the multi-cook function. What does this mode mean, and is this program really necessary for you - we will analyze in more detail.
Multi-cook function
The answer to the question of what is a multi-cook in a multicooker is extremely simple: it means manual cooking. All multicooker has a standard set of programs (somewhere there are more, somewhere less). With their help, you can cook dishes from a collection of recipes, which usually comes with a multicooker. It is worth trying to make some changes to the recipe - it is no longer a fact that the dish will turn out well. For these purposes, such a mode as a multi-cook in a multicooker has been created.
Using the manual mode, you can independently set the temperature from 40 to 180 degrees (this range may differ depending on the model of the device) and the cooking time with an accuracy of a minute or 5 minutes (also depends on the model of the multicooker).
There is also a more advanced version of the multi-cook - “Multi-cook plus”. It allows you to set different parameters for different cooking stages. For example, for the first 5 minutes, cook the cereals on high temperature, and then simmer for half an hour on low heat. Or you can simmer the meat, gradually reducing the temperature by 10 degrees every hour - then after 8 hours you will get the most tender meat, similar in taste to that cooked in a traditional Russian oven.
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When might you need a multi-cook?
- If you do not like any quality of food prepared according to the standard program. For example, the porridge is too boiled for your taste, or the meat is poorly fried. The parameters of the standard programs are calculated on the average, and depending on the specific initial products, the final result can vary greatly. A multi-cooker in a multi-cooker allows you to achieve the desired qualities of the dish by selecting the optimal temperature and cooking time.
- If you find a recipe that indicates the temperature and cooking time (for example, a cake), but you are not sure whether it will cook as it should in the standard “Bake” mode. With a multi-cooker, you can cook according to any recipe, not just those specially adapted for multi-cookers.
- If you like to experiment, come up with your own meals. For experienced users of multicooker, standard modes and recipes from the standard collection are no longer enough, they want more room for imagination.The multi-cook function allows you to expand the capabilities of your multicooker almost to infinity: cooking, frying, deep-frying, stewing, baking, steaming - any mode can be adjusted individually for each specific dish.
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Do you need a multi-cook?
Multicooker with and without a multi-cook is seriously different in price. Therefore, before buying, decide: do you want to use it only, for example, for cooking cereals, or plan to replace many kitchen units with one device: hob, oven, double boiler, deep fryer, airfryer, etc. In the first case, the simplest model will be enough for you; in the latter, you cannot do without a multi-cook. By the way, some housewives prefer to have two multicooker in their kitchen at once in order to cook two dishes in parallel. In this case, the ideal solution would be to buy one "fancy", and the other simple.
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