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  • My latest kitchen wish list includes a rice cooker, and air fryer, and lately a pressure cooker.

    Normally, I'm all about single purpose appliances - do one thing, do it well.

    Except cupboard / surface space would then be a problem.

    So: all-in-one shenanigans (and if so, which one) or curb my window shopping and stick to one of three (again, if so, which one).

  • Pressure cooker can also act as a rice cooker, allegedly but I haven’t tried it myself yet.

  • https://ninjakitchen.co.uk/ninja-catalog/ninja-multi-cookers/

    Have one of these. It's bulky, but does two of your three tasks; and no reason why it wouldn't work as a rice cooker, just doesn't have a setting for it (perhaps the bigger one does?).

    Also works well as a small convection oven, and seems much nicer to use than a traditional oven.

    Seems bullet proof and I think people rate Shark/Ninja as being good + UK based.

    Edit: wild that with the current discounts the fancier one is cheaper. Meat probe sounds interesting (although not useful for me).

    And an additional edit, whilst I can see the appeal of a separate lid to make it easier to clean, I would much prefer the space saving of having a true all in one

  • Instant pot is a pressure cooker par excellence and rice cooker too - the latter works just as well as other rice cookers I've used but I'm no expert.

    You can get instant pot air fryer lids too that make it truly all in one, but they are hard to come by in this country

  • Ninja foodi will do all of that, good discount on the 15 in 1 at the moment. They also do decent refurbs on the outlet on eBay, I got an air fryer from there and it looked like new

  • I've got the ninja 11 in 1 which does pressure cooking and air frying (plus various other stuff like steaming and air frying simultaneously, slow cooking and grill which I use a surprising amount).

    It can cook rice but, as others have said, you need to cook a lot of rice to do it.

    I prefer the all in one hinged lid as you don't need the storage space for another lid (they're big) and you don't need somewhere to put it down halfway through cooking. Downsides are it won't fit on a worktop with cabinets above and, if you're pressure cooking, it's wise to give the seal a quick clean (30 seconds of a job) as otherwise it may not seal and won't get up to pressure.

    You can often get them cheap on Amazon warehouse

  • If you have a microwave - the microwave rice cooker is amazing. Even with additions. Perfect rice every time. Haven’t touched the actual rice cooker since.

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