Perfect Cooker TPPFCKB3C Cooker, Plastic, 200 W, Black

I'll try not to sound like an infomercial but I have to say that this is great product surpassing all my expectations. It really works as do the recipes. It's very simple to use and if I didn't have a kitchen, I could definitely see using it to prepare food for 1 in a hotel or dorm room. It is very easy to clean up as well. I'm eating the fettucine alfredo that I just made while I was writing this review and it's as good as any I've had in a restaurant. I replaced my rice cooker with this as well saving space. Only two small downsides: 1.) while it comes with a small recipe manual I could find any additional ones online (although I did find the PDF or the recipe manual if you want to check them out before you buy. 2.) It's a bit challenging to the inside pot out when your meal is ready since it's hot. I got around this by using a pair of pliers (very gently) or oven mitts. Not a big deal at all though.Note: It is only big enough for 3 cups (24 oz) of food so it's a good size for 1 person or maybe 2 people preparing a side dish for the main meal.+++ Well, done with the Alfredo. Think I'll go try the raspberry bread pudding for desert next. :-)

I bought a red one a while ago - for some reason the red ones are more expensive. I found that I needed to use it twice when doing a meal. Once for rice and one for curry.Then the same thing happened with a pack of pasta and sauce the pot was too small and the time taken cooking half and then the other half was coming close to the microwave or stove top time.I noticed the black and white cookers were still at the lower price and thought it through. A spare pot might cost £7 or £8 pounds and if I bought the whole thing I would have a spare or I could operate both. So that is what I did.I think if you can want to do a decent sized meal for one at home you might be better off with an inexpensive pressure cooker that might also be used for slow cooking too. But if you want a device simple to use that you can carry it with you and don't mind using it twice it is good.Another option is to get a second bowl and a lid for it. So you could make the curry in one and rice in the other. Opposite order if you had nowhere to wash the bowl before you did the rice. Rice first then put in a lidded container and the curry later. At least washing the curry pot could be done after you finished eating and not in the middle of cooking.

I am always travelling for work and the Perfect Cooker always comes with me. It’s small enough that it fits into my suitcase.When I’m travelling, I use the cooker for pasta, soup and porridge. It prepares them all in no time at all. It can also be used to reheat food in the absence of a microwave.I use it at home too. It cooks rice quickly and to perfection and it does a great omelette too. The only downside is that when it clicks off, believing the food is ready, it can’t be turned back on immediately, so you need to allow it to cool for a few minutes before flicking the switch again.Cleaning the cooker is extremely easy. The non-stick bowl requires no effort at all and the lid and inner liner come apart with ease too!

A lovely product but after only a few months use the non-stick is starting to bubble and peel off in places. It may be a manufacturing flaw in the one I got but it is disappointing that such a useful product is made so cheaply.

Purchased two of these, a black and the red, for 2 young adults, who have both been utterly delighted with the item. Just the right size for 2 to 3 portions. Doesn't take up much room on the kitchen counter. Can cook a good many other things besides rice which is the main reason for purchase. Easy to wipe clean and rinse the inner non-stick pot. Keeps warm for several hours. Just be careful that the steam exit hole is located away from the person when opening the lid. The enclosed recipe book is really weird but if you are adventurous then go for it! It's 700ml so double the VonShef which is 300ml so should appease those who need something small but not that small.An on/off switch would have been good but am still giving it the five stars

Had this a week now, used it every day done rice, my own savoury rice, salmon/fish, soup & pasta in it, came out great infact for the first time ever my fussy cat wanted & enjoyed some of my fresh fish!!! So must be good lol. If I'm really busy I can plug it in whatever room I'm in so I hear the click incase needs longer, a friend was sick in bed, I took it when visiting & made her soup before her eyes, she now wants one!! Will be ordering another so can do rice & fish together etc as cooks so quick & with hardley any mess to show for it which is cleaned in seconds due to being non-stick :D Then will be ordering one for my gran for Christmas as this is even better than the one person slowcooker she has. Personally I hate faffing in the kitchen, I have plenty of only used once faff in the cupboards & the only way this could be less faff is to order takeout.

I mostly bought this because our last rice cooker broke; it was huge, and space saving is now important to us so we chose the smallest one we could find. I was happy to see it took 2 'cups' (or a small beaker's worth) of rice and twice that of water - perfect for two people IMO.What I didn't consider was that this thing is only 200w - my previous cooker was 500w, and many others are 700w. As a result, instead of cooking two cups of (white, easy-cook) rice in 10-15 minutes, it takes closer to 40. For many this might be acceptable but IMO it eliminates the convenience of having a rice cooker. There's also the not inconsiderable pain of having to take the bowl out of the thing once it's done. It's so small that scooping rice out is very difficult, and it's incredibly hot when done. As it's full of rice it's hard to lift up with one hand, so 2 oven mitts are basically required. The steam trapped under the lid liquefies and you get water all over the unit and back down the inside onto the heating element, which can't be a good thing.On the plus side, the reduced surface area of the inner cup relative to a larger rice cooker means less rice gets crisped and burned. Larger rice cookers give you a pancake of basically burned rice at the bottom that can't be eaten. It's less of an issue with such a small cup, so that's something.