Morphy Richards Sear and Stew Slow Cooker 460016 Black and Rose Gold, 3.5L

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That means you can fry and sear ingredients in the same pot you slow cook in, cutting down on the washing up. We prepared a simple spicy butternut squash soup using the high setting that was perfectly cooked in three hours. The pot heated up and cooked much like a normal pan, with a comparable capacity to a large saucepan. The large capacity pot accommodates whole chickens and family-sized joints as well as big batches of stews and curries.

If you’ve got a big family to feed or are a habitual batch cooker, then this beast of a slow cooker is for you. The soup cooked away for the default eight-hour duration and then just needed a blitz in the food processor. If you want a slow cooker that does what it says on the tin and won’t break the bank, the James Martin digital slow cooker fits the bill.Finally, I made vegetable soup, again sautéing a mixture of vegetables on the hob in butter and encountering the same problems of slippery pot base and wearing an oven glove. Thankfully the slow cooker itself has handles which did warm up, but never became too hot that I couldn't touch them. You can reduce the liquid in your pot by roughly a third so that it covers the meat and vegetables but make sure to not overfill your slow cooker as the food won’t cook as well. Plus, if you switch to the transparent bowl set, the Cook Expert acts like a traditional food processor for mixing, chopping, emulsifying, slicing and grating. Easy to use, easy to clean and delivers all round great results, we have to agree that this multi-cooker is good to go.

Nevertheless, the vegetables held their shape and weren’t mushy, plus the soup was rich and flavoursome. We speak to self-confessed clean freak Emma Bunton and find out what part of her home she loves to clean every day!This is not the sort of cooker you can leave all day while you’re out of the house, but it is a useful and adaptable piece of kitchen kit that does an excellent job of slow cooking. On the positive side, the adjustable temperature of between 90C-220C means you can slow cook to your heart’s content in the large, deep, rectangular non-stick dishwasher-safe pan. If you are a passionate wannabe chef who uses slow cooking as part of an arsenal of cooking techniques, and you have the budget, the Cook Expert could be a transformative addition to your kitchen. I was able to check on progress halfway through cooking thanks to the glass lid, which remained clear enough to see the contents without lifting, despite condensation. We could adjust the default cooking times of 8 hours for high and 4 hours to low in increments of 30 minutes from anything from 30 minutes to 20 hours to suit a particular recipe.

We cooked a number of dishes in each of the cookers, assessing their capacity, functionality, ease of operation and use and the flavour of the finished results.And we well and truly explored all the possibilities, knocking up everything from banana bread batter in 90 seconds to an empanada dough in 30 seconds. However, the lack of a display panel (there are just two small LEDs on the front of the cooker – one glows red to show the cooker is on and heating up and one glows green when the cooker has reached the set temperature – along with a temperature control knob marked off, low, medium and high) meant we didn’t know exactly how hot the pan was. Thanks to the removable ceramic inner pot, this handy tool is also brilliantly simple to clean so you can be cooking again in no time.