Pressure, and the eleven programs you will not use · review
A 1200-watt multicooker with a cast aluminum ceramic non-stick pot, a touchscreen with eight presets and temperature control to 400 °F.
The net of it Fourteen dollars more than the identical machine in Slate or Oatmilk, on this same shelf, with the same six bullets word for word and four grams of difference. The machine itself is good: 1200 watts, 400 °F, a cast aluminum pot and the only footnoted non-toxic claim here.
BELLA sells at least three of the eighteen items here, and nothing published distinguishes them beyond color.
Slate, 35454-016A — $79.99 — 4200 g Oatmilk, 35430-016A — $79.99 — 4200 g Fig, 35488-016A — $93.95 — 4196 g
Identical six bullets, word for word, footnote included. Identical catalog dimensions. Four grams apart.
And it is not the only case here. Ninja sells three HyperHeat pressure cookers that are also one machine:
PC201 Blue Macaron — $139.99 — 7199 g PC201WH White — $139.99 — 7199 g PC201SP Stone Purple — $169.99 — 7199 g
Identical ten bullets, word for word. Identical weight. Identical 6.5 quarts, 1200 watts and 9.5 inch cooking surface. Stone Purple costs thirty dollars more.
At least five of the eighteen items on this shelf are two machines in five colors, and the premium runs from $13.96 to $30.
Why it matters beyond the money: at $93.95 this crosses two machines that do genuinely different things.
Presto, $88.76 — ten quarts, the largest pot here; the only deep fryer on this shelf (“Deep fries up to ten cups”); and the only machine you can put in the sink — “Fully immersible with heat control removed” Instant Pot Rio Mini, $89.99 — a pressure cooker, with the only stainless steel pot here and the only published electrical listing: “800 watts, 120 V 60 Hz, UL & ULC Listed”
So: buy the Slate or the Oatmilk. If only Fig will do, you are paying fourteen dollars for a color and stepping over two machines with capabilities this one does not have.
No other listing on this shelf contradicts itself on capacity.
The likeliest explanation is that one figure is the pot and the other the usable cooking volume — makers quote both, and a pot filled to the brim is not a pot you can carry. The page never reconciles them, and both numbers appear on the same screen.
Taking the larger figure, the shelf runs:
4 qt — the Instant Pot Rio Mini at $89.99: “up to 4 servings, ideal for students, singles, and small families”, with “the same cooking surface as an 8-inch pan” 6 qt — the Sweetcrispy at $49.91 (“households of 3 to 5”), the COMFEE’ at $68.99, the Cosori at $80.99 6.5 qt — the three Ninja HyperHeat machines: “a 4-lb chicken or 5-lb roast, feeding 8–10 people”, on a “9.5” diameter” surface 7.5 qt — the PowerXL at $95.99: “two whole chickens or 6LBS of pork” 8.5 qt — this, the Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS at $129.99, the PRO Plus at $139.99 10 qt — the Presto at $88.76
And the food claims say more than the quarts.
This page: “a full five-pound chicken with room to spare”, “up to Eight People”. The 8.5 qt Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS: “chili for up to 20 people”, “9 lbs of spaghetti and meatballs”, “pulled pork for 30 sliders”. The 8.5 qt Ninja PRO Plus: the same, with “10 lbs of spaghetti”.
Same nominal capacity, very different claims — and two Ninja pages on the same pot disagree by a pound of pasta.
One real advantage this machine has over the six pressure cookers on this shelf, and no page here states it.
A pressure cooker is never filled to the brim. Typically no more than two thirds for solids, and half for anything that foams — beans, rice, oats, pasta, split peas — because foam carried into the vent is how a pressure cooker blocks.
So a “6-quart” pressure cooker is a four-quart cooking volume for most things and a three-quart one for grains. Eight and a half quarts of slow-cooking space really is eight and a half quarts.
“EverGood Non-Toxic Ceramic Nonstick Coating”* · ""Non-toxic” refers to ceramic coating materials made without PFAS, PTFE, PFOA, lead or cadmium”*
“Non-toxic” on cookware is a marketing phrase with no legal content, and this is the only page among fourteen that says what it is being used to mean.
PFAS, PTFE and PFOA are fluorinated compounds. PFAS is the whole family of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances; PTFE — sold as Teflon — is one member and the standard non-stick film; PFOA is another, historically a processing aid in making PTFE and phased out of that use.
Lead and cadmium are heavy metals, historically used in glazes and pigments.
How the shelf compares:
Presto, $88.76 — “PFAS-free ceramic nonstick finish, inside and out”, the only “inside and out” here Ninja PRO Plus, $139.99 — “MADE 100% PFAS FREE… no PFAS, PTFEs, or PFOAs” Ninja HyperHeat, $139.99 and $169.99 — “made 100% PFAS-free” Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS, $129.99 — “Free of PFOA, cadmium, and lead”, which says nothing about PFAS or PTFE: the weak version, from the same maker as the two strong ones Sweetcrispy $49.91, Cosori $80.99, PowerXL $95.99 — “ceramic”, with no chemistry COMFEE’, $68.99 — “Nonstick Pot”, neither ceramic nor chemistry Instant Pot Rio Mini, $89.99 — a “stainless steel pot”, the only stainless inner pot here
What a ceramic coating buys and gives up. Release without a fluoropolymer, and more scratch resistance than a sprayed non-stick. What it gives up is longevity — a ceramic sol-gel coating loses slipperiness with use, where stainless does not, and a stainless pot can be scrubbed and a ceramic one cannot.
And the substrate is published here, which only one other machine on this shelf manages. “Cast aluminum”, against the Instant Pot’s “stainless steel”.
Cast aluminum is the right choice for this job. Aluminum conducts heat about three times better than steel, so the base spreads the element’s heat rather than concentrating it over the coil — which is what causes a hot ring and a scorched sauce. And cast means thick: mass is thermal ballast, so a heavy pot does not drop in temperature when cold meat lands in it.
What it costs is weight: 4196 grams. Against 3139 grams for the ten-quart Presto at $88.76, which is a thin kettle with a plug-in control rather than a cast pot.
“Powerful 1200-watt system delivers consistent temperature control up to 400°F for perfect searing, simmering, and slow cooking”
The temperature is the figure that matters. Browning does not begin below about 140 °C — 285 °F. A slow cooker runs at 90 to 100 °C and cannot brown anything, which is why the standard method is to sear in a pan and transfer.
400 °F is 204 °C, comfortably into searing range — so the sear and the braise happen in one pot and one washing-up. Which is exactly what bullet three claims: “replacing your slow cooker, steamer, rice cooker, and Dutch oven”.
And 1200 watts is what sustains it. At 120 volts that is 10 amperes, two thirds of a domestic circuit. Power is not peak temperature — a thermostat sets that — but it is how fast the pot recovers when cold meat lands on it.
The wattages on this shelf:
1400 W — the Ninja PRO Plus at $139.99: “MORE POWERFUL SEARING*… 1400-watt power for high-temperature searing and sautéing directly in the pot” 1200 W — this and the three Ninja HyperHeat machines 800 W — the Instant Pot Rio Mini at $89.99, on the smallest pot here at 4 quarts, and the only item on this shelf to publish “120 V 60 Hz, UL & ULC Listed” None — eight machines, including the Presto at $88.76, the PowerXL at $95.99 and the Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS at $129.99
And two machines here go further than a temperature: their pots leave the machine. The Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS and PRO Plus are both “oven-safe up to 500°F”, so a braise can be finished under an oven’s top heat for a crust.
This page claims no oven rating and does not say whether the pot is removable at all — which, with no dishwasher statement either, is the gap a buyer will feel at the sink.
The six pressure cookers: the Sweetcrispy at $49.91 (6 qt) · the COMFEE’ at $68.99 (6 qt) · the Cosori at $80.99 (6 qt) · the Instant Pot Rio Mini at $89.99 (4 qt) · the three Ninja HyperHeat machines (6.5 qt).
The eight that do not: this and its two color siblings · the Presto at $88.76 · the PowerXL at $95.99 · the Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS at $129.99.
Pressure is the only mechanism on this shelf that cooks faster than a pan on a hob. Raising the pressure raises the boiling point of water, so food cooks above 100 °C instead of at it — and a beef shin that takes three hours in a pot takes under one.
Which is why the speed claims here need reading against their baselines.
Instant Pot, $89.99 — “up to 70% faster compared to slow cooking methods” Ninja HyperHeat — “up to 2X FASTER *Vs traditional slow cooking” PowerXL, $95.99 — “60% FASTER”, with no baseline in the bullet Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS, $129.99 — “up to 30% faster than conventional ovens *Tested on 6-lb chickens” Ninja PRO Plus, $139.99 — “Up to 30% faster vs. a conventional oven while baking”
Four different baselines, and “slow cooking” is the slowest method available.
What you get for not having pressure.
You can see in. A pressure cooker is a sealed box you cannot taste from. No sealing ring. A silicone ring is the consumable on every pressure cooker here — it hardens, takes a set and absorbs smell, and no page on this shelf publishes a replacement price, part number or interval. No fill limit, as above. And a simpler machine: no lock, no vent, no valve. Which is why the eight non-pressure machines publish no safety-feature counts and the six pressure cookers publish from 10 to 12.
“Simple Touchscreen Cooking Control Tap to select eight versatile presets like slow cook, steam, and rice”
The title says “10-in-1”. Bullet three says “Replace Ten Bulky Kitchen Appliances” and names four. Bullet four offers eight presets.
Which is close to universal on this shelf.
COMFEE’, $68.99 — three incompatible numbers on one page: a title of “12-in-1”, a bullet headed “9 IN 1” naming nine, and a bullet headed “12PRESETS” whose text says “14” Cosori, $80.99 — “9-in-1”, and a bullet listing thirteen Sweetcrispy, $49.91 — “16-in-1”, four appliances and twelve presets Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS, $129.99 — “6-in-1” and “REPLACES 12 COOKING TOOLS” Ninja PRO Plus, $139.99 — “9-in-1”, nine named, “REPLACES 16”
Two pages are self-consistent: the Instant Pot at $89.99 (“7-in-1”, seven named) and the PowerXL at $95.99 (no “in-1” count, nine presets named exactly).
Count the presets, not the marketing number. A preset is a button; an “in-1” is a claim about appliances you might otherwise own.
And the touchscreen is worth two observations.
It has no button seams, which on an appliance that boils liquid for hours is a real advantage: a membrane panel keeps steam and splashes out of the electronics. And it does not work with wet or floury fingers, which is exactly the state your hands are in while cooking.
The Presto at $88.76 is the opposite extreme and the only machine on this shelf with no electronics at all: a “Control Master heat control” that “maintains cooking temperatures automatically”, and — because the control unplugs — a body “Fully immersible with heat control removed”. No display, no presets, no touchscreen.
That is the one machine here you can put in the sink, and it is a direct consequence of a dial rather than a screen.
No dishwasher statement for any part. Eight machines on this shelf publish one, and the most honest is the Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS at $129.99: “Utensil & glass lid are dishwasher safe. Hand-washing pot recommended to extend its life.” Apply that caveat here: a dishwasher cycle is hot, alkaline and abrasive, and a ceramic coating is what it wears.
No lid described. The page never says what covers the pot — where the Presto at $88.76 publishes a “tempered glass cover”, the Ninja PRO Plus a “Glass Cooking Lid”, and the Ninja HyperHeat machines a “Pressure Cooker Lid”. On a machine sold for “steam” and “slow cook”, the lid is not a detail.
No oven rating, as above.
No statement that the pot is removable, as above.
No accessories itemized. The COMFEE’ at $68.99 lists “6 helpful components: Spoon, Ladel, Condensation Cup, Measuring Cup, Steam Rack, Power cord”. The Presto at $88.76 has a “Multi-use basket” that “hooks onto rim of multi-cooker for draining”. The Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS has a utensil that “works as a ladle and pasta fork” with “its own utensil rest right in the lid handle”. The Instant Pot includes a “stainless steel steam rack”.
No recipe guide, where four machines on this shelf include one.
No cooking surface diameter, where the Ninja HyperHeat machines publish “9.5” diameter” and the Instant Pot describes “the same cooking surface as an 8-inch pan”.
No delay timer, where two machines publish 24 hours: the Sweetcrispy at $49.91 and the COMFEE’ at $68.99.
No keep-warm function named, which seven machines on this shelf publish — though with eight presets it is very likely present.
No sous vide, which six machines on this shelf claim. None of them publishes a temperature tolerance, and sous vide means holding water within a degree for hours — a far harder specification than any of those pages states.
No warranty, which no item on this shelf publishes.
No country of manufacture, which no item on this shelf publishes either.
Read on the day this page was built: $80 at the American Amazon shop.
Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-10-05. The live price is at the top of the page.
Same shelf, nearest cost — where the same money else goes.
| Color premium | $13.96 more than the identical Slate and Oatmilk versions here |
|---|---|
| Weight | 4196 g (148 oz) — four grams from its own siblings at 4200 g (148.2 oz) |
| Power | 1200 W |
| Temperature | Control up to 400 °F |
| Non-toxic claim | Footnoted — without PFAS, PTFE, PFOA, lead or cadmium |
| Pot | Cast aluminum with EverGood ceramic non-stick |
| Capacity | 8.5 quarts in the bullets, 7 quarts in the title |
| Serves | Up to eight people; a five-pound chicken with room to spare |
| Controls | A touchscreen with eight presets |
| Pressure | No — one of eight non-pressure machines here |
| Footprint | 230 × 370 × 320 mm (9.06 × 14.6 × 12.6 in), identical to its siblings |
| Reference | 35488-016A |
| Bullets | The same six as the Slate and Oatmilk, word for word |
| Dishwasher | Not published for any part |
| Amazon reference | B0GNTTF593 |
| EAN | 0829486355141 |
Nothing published says so. The three BELLA machines here: Slate, 35454-016A — $79.99 — 4200 g (2.8 to 148.2 oz) · Oatmilk, 35430-016A — $79.99 — 4200 g (2.8 to 148.2 oz) · Fig, 35488-016A — $93.95 — 4196 g (3.3 to 148 oz). Identical six bullets, word for word, footnote included. Identical catalog dimensions: 230 × 370 × 320 mm (9.06 × 14.6 × 12.6 in). Four grams apart. So this costs $13.96 more than the same machine in Slate or Oatmilk. And it is not the only case on this shelf. Ninja sells three HyperHeat pressure cookers that are also one machine: PC201 Blue Macaron — $139.99 — 7199 g (4.9 to 253.9 oz) · PC201WH White — $139.99 — 7199 g (4.9 to 253.9 oz) · PC201SP Stone Purple — $169.99 — 7199 g (6 to 253.9 oz). Identical ten bullets, word for word. Identical weight. Identical 6.5 quarts, 1200 watts and 9.5 inch cooking surface. Stone Purple costs thirty dollars more. At least five of the eighteen items on this shelf are two machines in five colors, and the premium runs from $13.96 to $30. Why it matters beyond the money. At $93.95 this sits above two machines that do genuinely different things. The Presto at $88.76 is ten quarts, the largest pot here, the only deep fryer on this shelf, and the only machine you can put in the sink — "Fully immersible with heat control removed". The Instant Pot Rio Mini at $89.99 is a pressure cooker with the only stainless steel pot here and the only published electrical listing, "800 watts, 120 V 60 Hz, UL & ULC Listed". So the honest advice: buy the Slate or the Oatmilk. If only Fig will do, you are paying fourteen dollars for a color and crossing two machines with different capabilities to do it.
The page says both, and no other listing on this shelf contradicts itself on capacity. The product name: "bella Multi 10-in-1 7qt MultiCooker". Bullet two: "Generous 8.5-quart cast aluminum pot holds whole family meals, large batch soups, or a full five-pound chicken with room to spare." A quart and a half apart, in the same listing. The likeliest explanation is that one figure is the pot and the other the usable cooking volume — makers quote both, and a pot filled to the brim is not a pot you can carry — but the page never reconciles them. Taking the larger figure, the shelf runs: 4 qt — the Instant Pot Rio Mini at $89.99 ("up to 4 servings") · 6 qt — the Sweetcrispy at $49.91, the COMFEE’ at $68.99, the Cosori at $80.99 · 6.5 qt — the three Ninja HyperHeat machines ("a 4-lb chicken or 5-lb roast, feeding 8–10 people") · 7.5 qt — the PowerXL at $95.99 ("two whole chickens") · 8.5 qt — this and both Ninja PossibleCookers · 10 qt — the Presto at $88.76. And the food claims are more useful than the quarts. This page: "a full five-pound chicken with room to spare", "up to Eight People". The 8.5-quart Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS at $129.99: "chili for up to 20 people", "9 lbs of spaghetti and meatballs", "pulled pork for 30 sliders". The 8.5-quart Ninja PRO Plus at $139.99: the same, with "10 lbs of spaghetti". Same nominal capacity, very different claims — and two Ninja pages on the same pot disagree by a pound of pasta. One real advantage this machine has: it is not a pressure cooker. A pressure cooker is never filled to the brim — typically two thirds for solids and half for anything that foams, such as beans, rice, oats or pasta. So eight and a half quarts of slow-cooking space really is eight and a half quarts.
A sear in the pot instead of in a separate pan, which is the whole argument for a machine like this. Bullet five: "Fast and Even Heating Powerful 1200-watt system delivers consistent temperature control up to 400°F for perfect searing, simmering, and slow cooking." Why the temperature is the number that matters. Browning does not begin below about 140 °C (284 °F) — 285 °F. A slow cooker runs at 90 to 100 °C (194 to 212 °F) and cannot brown anything, which is why the standard method is to sear in a frying pan first and transfer. 400 °F is 204 °C (399 °F), comfortably into searing range — so the sear and the braise happen in one pot and one washing-up. And 1200 watts is what sustains it. At 120 volts that is 10 amperes, two thirds of a domestic circuit. Power is not peak temperature — a thermostat sets that — but it is how fast the pot recovers when cold meat lands on it, and a sear that drops the surface temperature steams instead of browning. The wattages on this shelf: 1400 W — the Ninja PRO Plus at $139.99: "MORE POWERFUL SEARING*... 1400-watt power for high-temperature searing" · 1200 W — this and the three Ninja HyperHeat machines · 800 W — the Instant Pot Rio Mini at $89.99, on the smallest pot here at 4 quarts, and the only item on this shelf to publish "120 V 60 Hz, UL & ULC Listed" · none — eight machines, including the Presto at $88.76, the PowerXL at $95.99 and the Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS at $129.99. And two machines on this shelf go further than a temperature: their pots leave the machine. The Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS and PRO Plus are both "oven-safe up to 500°F", so a braise can be finished under an oven’s top heat for a crust. This page claims no oven rating and does not say whether the pot is removable at all.
Details checked on October 5, 2026.
The Slate or Oatmilk machine, if Fig is worth fourteen dollars to you
Amazon reports what buyers took in the month before this page was last checked: at least 200.
The figure is a floor, rounded by Amazon, and read through Keepa — it says what buyers picked, not what a maker claims.
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for kitchen appliances and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
6 L · 1,000 W · 60 kPa · 3 pressure levels
A 6-liter electric pressure cooker that publishes the two figures this family is decided by: 1,000 W and up to 60 kPa, across three selectable pressure levels. Eighteen programs, a non-stick inner pot, more than ten stated safety systems, and — unusually — a printed multilingual recipe book rather than a PDF.
Best for: A first electric pressure cooker, with three pressure levels and something printed to read.
5.7 L · ceramic pot · 14 programs
A 5.7-liter nine-in-one with a ceramic non-stick inner bowl, fourteen smart programs on an LED display, and twelve stated safety features — including a shut-off and release button placed away from the steam outlet. Cosori states cooking up to 70% faster than conventional methods.
Best for: A cook who cares more about the interlocks and the cleaning than about kPa.
1,200 W · 5.7 L · 10-in-1
The Instant Pot Pro: 1,200 W in a 5.7-liter stainless body covering ten roles — pressure cooker, slow cooker, rice cooker, steamer, sauté pan, steriliser, yoghurt maker and sous-vide among them. Instant Pot states 20% faster preheating and up to 70% less cooking time, and that settings can be saved to one touch.
Best for: A cook who repeats recipes and wants the machine to remember them.
