Lakeland products

tjak

The best things I buy from Lakeland are without doubt the professional washing up brushes - they last forever, and clean up in the dishwasher.

I also bought a non stick baking sheet which is fantastic, and completely non stick. :j

Great service, and great products.

Mrs_P_Pincher

Whatever you say about Lakeland it's the only shop I've ever been in where they apologised for not having in stock the item that I wanted, persuaded me to pay for it and then posted one to me (post free) when it was back in stock!

It was a mandolin - had it seven years - still use it every day.

Mrs P P

Triker

I was looking at the Mermaid trays today and I might invest in a few of them with my credit note.

natlie

My Faves are:
Soup and Sauce Bags
Freezer Bags
Reusable baking liners
all the baking tins
jars
marmalade and jam fruit in tins
silicone spatulas and mats
chopping boards

dangers

Jo4 - we've got three different lots of sockies and I would say that these are better than the previous lot.

jodie114

ok, so i am tempted by this, £200 it would need to be super good!
has anyone got one? what do you think of it?
also, with the shallow fry option, do you think it would mimick the actifry idea? (although i don't think it has the paddle in the middle?).
Thanks
jodie

Badrick

We have a JML Star Chef, which looks to have similar functions to the Super Chef for less than half the price.
Having said that, we originally looked at the Morphy Richards Intellichef, but went for the cheaper option.
It does what it says on the tin and works well with good results , but to answer your question about shallow frying, it's the same result as in a frying pan with a lid on. If you're looking for low fat frying, you'd have the choice of Tefal Actifry or Phillips Airfryer.

cooking-mama

Dunno anything about the lakeland super chef, http://www.lakeland.co.uk/15312/Lakeland-SuperChef , but it looks very similar to these,
http://www.jmldirect.com/uk/cooking+baking/star-chef/invt/s22sc20100000001/ or this,
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Morphy-Richards-48810-Intellichef-Silver/dp/B001LK8OTW,
I saw the morphy richards one for £99 in Currys at the weekend,maybe old stock tho,as doesnt appear available online.

lizzyb1812

The Superchef will not deep fry - as Badrick says it is like shallow frying with a lid on. As there is no paddle to move the food chips would just sit and shallow fry on one side. It's about the same price as an Intellichef which does all the same things and slow cooks too. The Intellichef can be found for about £100 which is what I paid for mine.

I've read comments that this type of gadget is just as useful as a pan on the hob and to an extent I agree but I do enjoy using it. I wouldn't pay anywhere near £200 for it though - that's WAY too much.

alltrustgone

Which particular functions are you most after? If it’s the actifry, low fat, stirring options, don’t think these multicooker will do, as Badrick says. I did see recently, but briefly, on a tv shopping channel a halogen oven with an automatic stirrer fitting, but no idea of it’s efficacy.

If you want the flexibility of these multicookers. although I don’t know the superchef, I have used the MR Intellichef, and have recently bought a JML StarChef – they have it on special offer at the moment, for £49.99 plus postage, a £50 reduction.

I mainly wanted something that I could fry stuff off before slow cooking, and to make soups, with the benefit of a timer/automatic switch off.

I found the Intellichef to be very fierce in operation, eg there seemed little difference between the boil function and stew function, both bubbling away like mad, rather than the respective fast boil and gentle simmer I expected and would achieve cooking on a stove top. Frying vegetables off needed watching carefully and very frequent stirring otherwise burned. That said, its slow cooking function was ok for my needs, but soups (using the stew setting) boiled too vigorously for my liking.

The starchef however seems gentler with more noticable variation between the settings, boil is a good rolling boil, but stew gives a very gentle simmer. Slow cooker fine too. The vegetable fry setting is gentler . Its capacity is less than the other two machines I think. Only had it a week or so, used slow cooking, steaming , reheat, vegetable fry and stew (to make soups) so far, but I’m very pleased with the Starchef, and would replace it if/when needed, even at full price.

One potential advantage I can see with the Lakeland superchef is that the bake mode apparently has a variable temperature setting option. Neither the MR or JML has this, bake is bake, but I’ve not used that setting yet anyway. The other advantage is Lakeland’s name and wonderful customer service, but the price is a bit eye-watering.