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The VITESSE VS-513 Multicooker Test

Multicookers

Small appliances for the kitchen

Advantages: the VITESSE VS-513 multicooker allows to observe all the details of cooking rice, the programs from the automatic menu work perfectly, the clear bright display can be understood in American, the control buttons are quite large: if anything, you can not miss.

Small appliances for the kitchen

A little confusing to operate.

Vitesse

POWER: maximum when cooking 860 watts.

RESERVE: 4 L.

CONSTRUCTION: non-heated plastic body, 1,2 m cord length, carrying handle, steam release valve, spoon holder.

SAFETY: the recommendations are in the manual.

AUTO PROGRAMS: Multiple programs “Porridge/Soup”, “Steam”, “Stew”, heating.

CONTROL: American-speaking control panel, “HOUR” and “MINUTE” buttons for setting time, “DEFINITELY START” button delayed cooking time up to 24 hours , “HEATING/CANCEL” button, “RICE START” button for choosing hardness of rice soft, standard, hard , “START” button, button “RICE SORT” button for choosing kind of rice crispy, round grain ,

button ” to cook rice and select the method of rice cooking white rice, instant rice, brown rice , “menu” button to select the cooking programs “Soup/Casha”, “Steam”, “Stew” . Indicators of “Porridge/Rice”, “Steam”, “Stew” programs, the choice of hardness, variety and method of cooking rice, standby mode indicator.

Complete set: non-stick pan, rice spoon, soup spoon, measuring cup, steam container, recipe booklet.

DIMENSIONS: 430x280x210mm. WEIGHT: 3525 g.

WARRANTY: 1 Year.

COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURER: China.

WHICH IS ESPECIALLY CONVENIENT

If the user is a fan of Asian cuisine and can’t imagine his life without rice, then VITESSE VS-513 model is just a godsend for him or her .

The appliance allows you to cook rice following all the nuances of the recipe, taking into account the characteristics of rice variety and species, as well as the tastes of gourmet: rice can “at your will” become hard, standard or soft.

It’s convenient to cook rice for sushi and rolls, for risotto, for pilaff of any kind and for diet viscous porridge. We tried boiling rice for sushi, it should be suitable for molding, and it turned out exactly as promised.

I liked the clear, well-lit display, with a large clock, however, the indications of all the subtleties of cooking on it are a bit small.

WHAT’S MISSING..

The VITESSE VS-513 lacks simplicity of operation. So many settings that are unnecessary for the average user who is not a fan of rice dishes. Of course, you can ignore all these inscriptions and buttons, which have to do with the choice of variety, variety and taste of rice, but it’s very distracting.

It feels like pressing the “PRONE” and “COOKING SOURCE” buttons, but they are more about accessing the “rice” menu, while the “MENU” button is for selecting the normal “non rice” programs.

There is no special baking program in this multicooker, but you can bake in it: in the “Porridge/Soup” program the same biscuits, muffins and curd casseroles are quite successful.

WHAT WE COOKED AND WHAT WE GOT

Beef stew with beans. Put chopped onion 2 heads , then 700g of chopped meat, sliced carrots, salt in the saucepan of your VITESSE VS-513. Three tins of beans have poured all the liquid into the pot of the multicooker.

We turned on the “Stew” mode for 2 hours. 30 minutes before the end of the program we added spices and tomato paste, put the beans, chopped garlic, stirred. The result – the meat melts in your mouth, the beans bask in a tangy sauce
 exactly 2 minutes, for further it simply disappears from the plate! Perfect!

Noodle Soup. Roasted onions and carrots in “Porridge/Soup” mode until transparent for about 10 minutes with the lid open . Then we put the chicken meat in and fried it on both sides.

We added water, noodles, salted, seasoned the soup, pepper, and turned on the “Porridge/Soup” mode for 1 hour. The recipe surprised me by the fact that the noodles should not be put in at the end of cooking, but right away. No wonder it cooked so well for an hour. Our recommendation is still to put it 5-10 minutes before the end of the program.

Vinaigrette. A special feature of this recipe is to steam cook the vegetables in a special steam cooker, but not “in the jacket”, but already peeled and chopped. We decided to try it and realized that 45 minutes is a long time, as recommended by the recipe, the vegetables were ready in 25 minutes.

It takes more time for peeling-cutting than for working with vegetables “in the jacket”, but the taste of the salad struck by the tenderness. Thanks for the tutorial, it was worth it!

HOW DID THE MANUAL HELP OR NOT?

All is clearly told about cooking rice, a warning about the timer it does not give a delayed start, but shows how much time the dish will be ready .

the recommendations not to cook instant cereals in the multicooker and not to pour vinegar into the container it spoils the non-stick coating came in handy. It seemed to us that it would be possible to give more practical advice, for example, how to fry and steam foods: whether it is possible to open the lid, in what program is better to do it.

The instructions say that you can cook with crust, you can bake, but how – is not explained. For example, whether the crust is on top or bottom? What program is better to bake in, if there is no special mode for baking? Some confusion occurs with the mode “brown rice”.

In the description of the buttons, there is no indication of what this mode is and what it’s for. Below is the interpretation of “Brown rice” pilaf . And since we first tested the same model with English control, we found that instead of “Brown rice” on the English version of the display, there was “Crust”, which usually means “Cooking with crust”.

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Comments: 1
  1. Julian James

    Can you please provide more details about the VITESSE VS-513 Multicooker Test? How does it perform in terms of cooking various types of food? Is it easy to use and clean? Any specific features or functions that make it stand out from other multicookers in the market?

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