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Kenwood kCook: an affordable alternative to the Thermomix?

For those that love healthy food (but understandably don’t want to spend thousands on a Thermomix!), the new Kenwood kCook makes cooking nutritious meals quick, easy and most importantly, affordable!

The kCook is an all-in-one multi-cooker, which includes a slow-cooker function, various temperature settings for simmering, reheating and boiling and three recipe pre-sets. Chopping, stirring and steaming are also sorted, literally doing all the work for you without even having to change the bowl.

While making healthy cooking easier and faster with the chopping, blending and stirring tools, the kCook stands out from the multi-purpose cooker market at $699, affordable for families and ideal for busy people.

To make life even easier, Kenwood has curated a series of step-by-step recipes designed specifically for the kCook. The recipes include a pea and parma ham risotto and white wine chicken casserole, all available through a free app which can be downloaded from the Apple App Store and Google Play.

The Kenwood kCook is available in all major electrical retailers and department stores. For more information visit their website.

Smeg’s 70cm oven: good things come in small packages

With the same capacity as a 90cm oven (90 litres), but taking up 20cm less cabinetry space, Smeg’s latest 70cm SAP3700X is a timeless design in stainless steel that doesn’t compromise on function or space.

Designed by leading Italian architect Guido Canali, the 70cm configuration has a range of stand out innovations including: Thin Film Transistor display with ultra clear graphics, S-Logic interface that provides intuitive, simple control of multiple functions and Smart Sense self-guiding cooking programmes with 50 preset recipes.

The SAP3700X has 10 cooking functions that include: static bake, grill plus fan forced, supercook and fan grill as well as two pyrolytic cleaning functions – eco energy-saving and regular. Key features and benefits also include: A+ European energy rating (20 per cent higher than the highest rating), thermoseal oven technology for accurate, even temperatures in a perfectly controlled cooking environment, cool touch door, an EverClean easy clean enamel interior, fast pre-heating to reduce energy consumption and a fingerprint-resistant stainless steel exterior.

The timeless design of the SAP3700X can be design-matched with cooktops, compact ovens and microwaves, rangehoods and dishwashers – all from the extensive collection of Smeg Italian designed and manufactured appliances. The Smeg SAP3700X, retails for $4690 and is available nationally from electrical retailers, appliance specialists and some department stores. For more details visit their website.