Bugger, ordered the morphy richards already from Amazon.de, will now have to try and cancel in German
The slow fast one is $133 at buy guyatts(?) and looks great, thanks for the recommendation

Dorothy and Dreamy - picked up my new Breville fast/slow on Friday and LOVE LOVE LOVE it! Would never have heard of it if not from you so THANKS so much. Cooked lovely lamb shanks and risotto and today a delicious veg soup which took all of 12 mins!

Ooh, now I'm getting tempted. With the cold weather starting, I needs (sic) comfort food.

I love mine. I made a giant pot of beef stew on the weekend and froze it into dinner sized portions for the family. $6 worth of the cheapest budget beef I could find, some veggies, stock and herbs/spices and I have enough for 2 dinners.

May I say that I could just eat some Shepherds pie and I think Dorothy should be the one to cook it, I can imagine it right now.

(Sorry Dorothy, but when you describe your cooking, it always makes my mouth water and now I want shepherds pie.)

I'll make you Shepherds pie any time Sam. I didn't get to be a fat broad by being a crappy cook.

I just have a craving for it - a nice winter dish.

In case you do buy, I abandoned internet as just couldn't wait and went to Bing Lee - their price $199 but got them down to $160. Cheapest internet was $150 and had to wait a week for delivery .

I'm glad you're loving it

You'll have so much fun trying out different things it!

How bizarre... we had shepherd's pie last night for tea It's bleeding well cold enough for all sorts of stews and casseroles.

me to, there goes my budget

I have just gone out and bought one of these following all your recommendations. Got it for $145 at the Good Guys. Need something to cook fairly quickly as not a lot of time after work etc. Am new to all this, can anyone suggest an easy recipe to get me started or recommend a good book? Thank you.

I make pumkin soup in 15 minutes. Throw in a peeled cut up pumpkin (Kent I think it is), a couple of chopped carrots, a couple of chopped onions, a peeled sweet potato and a clove of chopped garlic, a pinch of each cinnamon, cloves and ginger. Cover with chicken stock and cook on medium pressure for 15 minutes. After you've vented the steam open the lid and puree with a stick blender (careful, it's still really freakin' hot!). Blend in about 2 cups milk or cream and season with salt & pepper.

There are some good recipes in the instruction book that came with mine. You can also google pressure cooker recipes and find loads of good stuff.

Sounds lovely, I'll give it a go. Thank you very much!

I liked the recipes in the book too (but have ordered another from book depository too). My veg soup was made from: rest of gravy from lamb shanks, half pumpkin, half massive sweet potato, 4 small parsnips, red onion, wilting broccoli and celery(!) a swede and some carrots. herbs from garden and water. Cooked for 12 mins on high, blended and added more water as too thick. I reckon we got about 12 generous bowls from it altogether.

My local good guys had sold out, bugger!