![]() ![]() Keep Warm: After pressure cooking, steaming, or slow cooking, the unit will automatically switch to Keep Warm mode and start counting up.Dehydrate: Remove moisture from fruits, vegetables and meats to create homemade chips and jerky.Broil: Seal in flavor and give your meal just the right amount of carmelization or crispness.Bake/Roast: Don't waste time waiting for your oven to heat make casseroles and veggies in way less time. ![]() Air Crisp: Produces crispy, golden texture without all the fat and oil.Start or finish recipes by dropping this top to unleash super-hot, rapid-moving air around your food to crisp and caramelize to golden-brown perfection.Sous Vide: French for "under vacuum," this function slow cooks food sealed in a plastic bag in an accurately regulated low-temp water bath.Sear/Sauté: Five stovetop temperature settings allow you to build flavor by searing, sautéing, simmering, and more.Yogurt: Create homemade yogurt with no artificial ingredients or sweeteners.Slow Cook: Cook low and slow to create your favorite chilis and stews.Steam: Steam infuses moisture, seals in flavor, and maintains the texture of your food.Pressure cook: Pressurized steam infuses moisture into ingredients and quickly cooks them from the inside out.With this lid on, the Foodi pressure cooker is the ultimate pressure cooker, so you can transform the toughest ingredients into tender, juicy, and flavorful meals in an instant.chicken in as little as 30 minutes of active cook time Get from frozen to crispy in as little as 20 minutes.Provides up to 70% faster cooking time than traditional methods: slow cooking, stovetop, and oven.Offers up to 75% less fat uptake versus traditional deep frying methods.CR members can also dig into our complete multi-cooker ratings. Read on for reviews of seven of the best multi-cookers from our tests, listed in alphabetical order. ![]() Testers also evaluate convenience factors, such as the clarity of the touch controls and how easy it is to program each multi-cooker, and they assess the durability of the coating on the interior pots. Some models even have functions for baking, air-frying, crisping, dehydrating, and sous vide.įor each test, CR staffers sample the dish and judge the food’s taste and tenderness. Then we test other dedicated functions, including slow-cooking chili and beef stew, steaming rice and vegetables, sautéing onions, and keeping food warm. We test pressure-cook mode on the models that have it by cooking pork ribs and beef-and-bean chili. “Pressure-cook models are ideal for quickly cooking tough cuts of meat, or beans, but you won’t save a lot of time with other foods, like steamed rice,” says Ginny Lui, CR’s test engineer for countertop cooking appliances. You can find it in our multi-cooker ratings, which cover two categories: models that pressure-cook and those that don’t. ![]() On the flip side, the best in our tests today comes in well under $200. It can go for up to $650 (the most expensive model we’ve ever tested) and is one of the worst performers in our tests. More recently, we tested the Wolf Gourmet Multi-Cooker, a hefty high-end model with a price to match. But that’s roughly $100 more than the highly rated Chef iQ Multi-Functional Smart Pressure Cooker. One of our top-rated multi-cookers, the Breville Fast Slow Pro, costs about $275. We now test 18 brands, ranging in price from $70 to more than $600.ĭoes spending top dollar for one of these multitasking countertop appliances get you a better braise? The answer used to be yes-to a degree. Not long ago, Instant Pot was the only name in the multi-cooker game. ![]()
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