Tower Health Multi-Function Electric Pressure Cooker, Steamer, Rice Cooker, Stewing Pan with Non-Stick Pot, 90 min Timer, 24 Hour Keep Warm Function, 5 Litre, 1000 W, Stainless Steel

I have barely used my oven since i bought this! Im now stock piling cook books for it. Its literally the best gadget in my kitchen! Couldnt be without it now. You put whatever you want in one pot and most dishes are cooked to perfection within 20 mins. Ive made chicken curries, chilli beef, bolonese even with pasta in the bowl! Ive successfully cooked steaks to perfection and frozen meat and veg comes out perfect! Its the perfect size too for 4 or 5 very large portions.

Usually I love Tower products, I have bought their stove top pressure cookers before so thought this would be fantastic, but unfortunately I have been a bit disappointed. The problem is not with the actual cooker, it works great, but with the almost useless instructions. They really haven’t explained the finer points and most often I end up guessing which makes the whole process not very accurate at all.

I have just received mine, it has been a few years since I used a pressure cooker, this electric cooker is brilliant, easy to use, the instructions could be better on getting started, but just checked around the Internet to fill in the gaps and away I went, it's brilliant.

Had for a while and use a lot. The dial timer is simple and effective, much more straightforward than having to press various buttons. Device is really sturdy and works like a dream. Inner pot is tough non stick and hasn't flaked or scratched. Best part is you can fry / braise ingredients in the pot before you put the lid on for pressure cooking. And it heats up and cools down very quickly. Top notch

I bought this because it was a leading brand but unfortunately I was disappointed as it arrived with a damaged lid. It hadn't obviously been damaged in transit as the box was intact but one of the handles on the lid was broken to smithereens underneath. I'm only writing this to warn that the plastic on the lid handles is very thin and flimsy and in my opinion not fit for purpose. Needless to say I had to return it and ordered a different brand.

Really easy to use with no fancy controls to work out. 4cm of water 50 minutes and a good size beef joint was cooked. Browned joint off in oven for 20 mins totally moist superb food. The oven does not bleed steam during the cooking process so no boil dry problems. Steam release is manual at the end of the cooking period and is easy just lift valve keeping hands clear of steam ie with a long spoon or something. I would tell anyone interested in a pressure cooker to get one of these it's great.

This is a steam pressure cooker and so it cooks anything you would cook in a steam pressure cooker. It is not an oven. It does not roast. It is not a low cooker. A chicken tastes like boiled chicken; ham like boiled ham. Ordinary pressure cookers were very good at cutting cooking time for potatoes and root vegetables. Are there any advantages over the traditional stove top kind?. Well, it is electrically controlled and has a timer. When the steam pressure reaches a certain point it switches itself off, and then on again when necessary. So little steam escapes. Though the inadequate manual does not say so, the timer starts immediately you switch on, and does not wait until there is full pressure. So allow a few minutes extra.There is only a single pressure though the pressure switch would seem to indicate there were two. Perhaps people don't use the lower pressure any more. Experienced users know what not to cook in a pressure cooker: basically anything that foams or swells when boiled.There is a warmer function keeps the food hot, presumably at a lower pressure which which is convenient. But I suspect the hot food will keep on cooking and the veg will be overdone.For those who are interested you can buy a book with recipes, which gives a good indication what can be done.Some may find the electrically controlled and time features useful. But I will stick to my old stove top one.

Unfortunately I had to return the pressure cooker as the float valve did not work as it should. It is worth noting that the instructions are very poor and confusing.For example, safety instructions tell you to remove the pressure regulator weight, common sense tells you what this is, the instruction manual diagram doesn't, it only shows a pressure valve. Page 5 tells you not to cook foods such as apple sauce, beans, cranberries, pearl barley, oatmeal, or other cereals, rice, split peas, noodles, macaroni, rhubarb or spaghetti. P7 then tells you how to cook rice and P8 how to cook oats (porridge). P8 tells you to repeatedly press the menu button, then the start button and the cancel button. The cooker doesn't have any of these, just a dial and three lights, as can be seen in the photo. Curiously the instructions state that the appliance can be used by children over 8 if they have been given supervision or instruction concerning use of the appliance. That would be impossible due to the lack of instructions with the appliance.