Road Test: Tefal Cook4me Connect
Keen cooks will use the Cook4Me manually and frequently. The rest will discover a really simple, smart way of cooking.
So it’s another multi-cooker, albeit a rather sexy French model? Oui, and non. Sure, it does all the traditional, pressure-cooking, reheating and steam-cooking you expect of these digital devices and as such they are really valuable gadgets. Lamb shanks in half an hour, that kind of thing.
But it has a party trick? Yes: connect it to a device (a tablet is best) via Bluetooth and the Tefal app will download recipes and send them to the cooker, which will then take you step by step through the recipe with prompts on the cooker’s screen. It’s really bloody clever.
Don’t we all have too much screen time already? My phone tells me that every Sunday.
Conclusion? Keen cooks will use it manually and frequently. The rest will discover a really simple/smart way of cooking. Just be ready for more screen time...
$499, tefal.com
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