Pressure, and the eleven programs you will not use · review
A 10-quart multi-cooker with a PFAS-free ceramic finish inside and out, a frying basket, a glass cover, an automatic heat control and a fully immersible body.
The net of it The only machine on this shelf with no electronics, the only one you can put in the sink, the only one that deep fries, and the largest pot here at ten quarts — and at 3139 grams it is also the lightest. A dial, a basket and a glass lid.
“Control Master heat control maintains cooking temperatures automatically” and “Fully immersible with heat control removed”
The element and the thermostat live in a probe that plugs into the side of the kettle. Pull it out and what remains is a metal pot with no electrical parts in it at all — so it can be filled with soapy water, scrubbed, or washed like any saucepan.
Nothing else on this shelf is immersible. Every other machine here has its element bonded into the base, which is why the best any of them manage is a removable inner pot and a wipe of the body.
The best of those statements:
Ninja PRO Plus, $139.99 — “Inner pot, lid, and spoon are all dishwasher safe” PowerXL, $95.99 — “Pot, Lid, and Paddle go straight into the dishwasher” Cosori, $80.99 — “dishwasher-safe lid, ceramic coating inner pot, and accessories”, plus a “0.5-inch widened pot gap” to reach the crevice between pot and body Instant Pot, $89.99 — “Dishwasher-safe lid and cooking stainless steel pot” Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS, $129.99 — the most honest: “Utensil & glass lid are dishwasher safe. Hand-washing pot recommended to extend its life.” COMFEE’ $68.99, the three BELLA machines and the three Ninja HyperHeat machines — no dishwasher statement at all
Why immersibility matters most on this particular machine. It is the only one on this shelf that deep fries.
Deep frying is the messiest thing any of these machines does. Hot oil creeps up the walls, film polymerizes into a varnish, and the only cure is hot water and a scourer. A machine you can fill with soapy water is the right machine for that, and this is the only one here that is.
“Deep fries up to ten cups for big batches of chicken, fish, fries, and donuts”
No other machine among the fourteen here claims deep frying at all.
Why ten cups is the useful figure rather than ten quarts. A deep fryer is limited by oil, not by pot — you fill to a third or less, because food displaces oil and water in the food makes it foam up. Ten cups is about 2.4 liters, which is a real domestic frying volume.
And the basket is what makes it a fryer rather than a pot of oil. “Multi-use basket for deep frying, steaming, and blanching” and “Basket hooks onto rim of multi-cooker for draining.”
That second line is the detail. Oil-drenched food has to drain somewhere, and the obvious place is back into the oil — a basket that hangs on the rim does it without a second pan and without a plate of oil on the countertop.
The same basket does the other two jobs on the same logic. Steaming needs food held above water. Blanching needs food lifted out of boiling water instantly. One basket, three methods.
Nothing else on this shelf has a basket. The nearest accessories are a steam rack — the Instant Pot at $89.99 (“a versatile stainless steel steam rack”) and the COMFEE’ at $68.99, whose six itemized components include one.
And the glass cover is the other piece of the same simplicity. “Tempered glass cover” — which, on a machine with no display, is the only way to see what is happening. Two other machines publish a glass lid: the Ninja PRO Plus at $139.99 (“Glass Cooking Lid”) and the Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS at $129.99 (“Utensil & glass lid are dishwasher safe”).
The three BELLA machines, the Sweetcrispy, the Cosori and the COMFEE’ publish no lid description at all.
One control: “Control Master heat control maintains cooking temperatures automatically.”
No display. No timer. No delay start. No touchscreen. No presets. No “in-1” count.
Compare the shelf.
BELLA, $79.99 — a “Simple Touchscreen Cooking Control” with eight presets Cosori, $80.99 — thirteen functions listed under a “9-in-1” heading COMFEE’, $68.99 — nine functions, twelve presets in a heading and fourteen in a sentence: three incompatible numbers on one page Sweetcrispy, $49.91 — “16-in-1”, twelve presets, a 24-hour delay start Instant Pot Rio Mini, $89.99 — seven functions and a “Progress indicator” PowerXL, $95.99 — nine presets and a motorized paddle Ninja PRO Plus, $139.99 — nine functions and “REPLACES 16 COOKING TOOLS”
What a preset actually is: somebody else’s guess at your recipe, held at a fixed temperature for a fixed time. What a dial is: your guess, which you can change mid-cook.
And this page lists what the dial covers in plain verbs: “Steams, stews, roasts, boils, and deep fries”, plus “soup and stew, roasts, ham, rice, vegetables, pasta and more”. Six methods and seven foods, with no numbers attached — and no count claimed.
What you lose is unattended cooking. No timer means nothing switches off — so a long braise needs somebody in the house, where a machine with a preset and a keep-warm does not. Seven machines on this shelf publish a keep-warm function; this does not.
What you gain is immediacy, simplicity and a control that can be replaced separately if it fails — which on a machine whose electronics are the only thing that can fail is not a small point.
Ten quarts, 3139 grams, 406 × 311 × 210 mm.
The shelf by weight:
this — 3139 g (10 qt) BELLA — 4196 to 4200 g (8.5 qt) Instant Pot Rio Mini — 4944 g (4 qt) PowerXL — 5103 g (7.5 qt) Sweetcrispy — 5398 g and Cosori — 5398 g (6 qt) Ninja PRO Plus — 5561 g (8.5 qt) Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS — 6759 g (8.5 qt) Ninja HyperHeat, three machines — 7199 g (6.5 qt) COMFEE’ — not published
So the largest pot on this shelf sits in the lightest machine, and the heaviest machine here has a pot a third the size.
Why. A pressure cooker is a vessel. It has a locking lid, a gasket, a valve, a vent, a pressure sensor and a body built to hold all of it — which is where the Ninja HyperHeat’s 7199 grams goes.
And a cast pot is mass by design. The three BELLA machines publish “cast aluminum”, and cast means thick because thickness is thermal ballast.
This machine has neither. A thin metal kettle, a glass lid, a basket and a plug-in control — and ten quarts of volume costs almost nothing in weight when the walls are thin.
What that costs in use. Less thermal mass means a faster temperature drop when cold food goes in, which matters for browning and matters very much for frying: oil that loses temperature makes greasy food.
With ten cups of oil in it there is thermal mass in the oil itself, which is the saving grace — and it is also the reason not to fry in small amounts of oil in a thin pot.
And what the lightness buys is the previous section. A pot light enough to lift full, and light enough to carry to the sink.
“PFAS-free ceramic nonstick finish, inside and out”
“Inside and out” appears on no other page on this shelf, and it is a meaningful addition — because the outside of a kettle is what you handle and what sits on a countertop, and it is also where a coating is routinely applied for looks rather than for release.
Four items on this shelf publish a chemistry claim.
BELLA, $79.99 — the only footnote here: “EverGood Non-Toxic*”, with the asterisk defined as “ceramic coating materials made without PFAS, PTFE, PFOA, lead or cadmium” this — “PFAS-free ceramic nonstick finish, inside and out” 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”
And one makes the weaker version, from the same maker as the two strong ones. The Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS at $129.99: “Free of PFOA, cadmium, and lead” — which says nothing about PFAS or PTFE at all.
Why the distinction matters. 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. So “PFOA-free” is a far smaller statement than “PFAS-free”.
Three pages say “ceramic” with no chemistry: the Sweetcrispy at $49.91, the Cosori at $80.99, the PowerXL at $95.99. One says only “Nonstick Pot”: the COMFEE’ at $68.99. And one sidesteps it: the Instant Pot Rio Mini at $89.99, with the only stainless steel inner pot here.
One habit this page does not give, and it matters on a fryer. A ceramic coating loses slipperiness with use, and polymerized oil is what accelerates it. Wash it after every frying session while it is warm — which, on the only immersible machine on this shelf, is easy.
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: the three BELLA machines · this · 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.
What you get for not having it, on this machine in particular.
No sealing ring. A silicone ring is the consumable on every pressure cooker here — it hardens, takes a set and absorbs smell. No page on this shelf publishes a replacement price, part number or interval. No fill limit. 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 a “6-quart” pressure cooker is a four-quart cooking volume for most things. Ten quarts here is ten quarts, minus the room you leave for a boil. No lock, no vent, no valve — which is why the eight non-pressure machines on this shelf publish no safety-feature counts and the six pressure cookers publish from 10 to 12. And no electronics, as above.
What you give up is speed and, more specifically, the one thing a pressure cooker is unmatched at: tough cuts and dried beans. No machine on this shelf softens a shin of beef or a pot of chickpeas as fast as the six that pressurize.
No wattage. At least six of the eighteen machines here publish one: 1400 W on the Ninja PRO Plus at $139.99 · 1200 W on the three BELLA and three Ninja HyperHeat machines · 800 W on the Instant Pot Rio Mini at $89.99, the only item on this shelf to publish “120 V 60 Hz, UL & ULC Listed”. On a machine whose selling point is a ten-quart pot and ten cups of frying oil, the power that heats it is the figure to want — a thin-walled kettle heats quickly and a large volume of oil does not.
No temperature range. “Control Master heat control maintains cooking temperatures automatically” names no numbers — and frying has a right temperature: most deep frying runs 325 to 375 °F, and oil below that gives greasy food while oil above it burns. Two machines on this shelf publish an oven rating — the Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS at $129.99 and PRO Plus at $139.99, both “oven-safe up to 500°F” — and the three BELLA machines publish a cooking temperature of “up to 400°F”.
No dial markings. With no display, the dial is the whole interface, and the page does not say whether it is marked in degrees or in words.
No keep-warm function, which seven machines on this shelf publish.
No timer or delay start, where the Sweetcrispy at $49.91 and the COMFEE’ at $68.99 both publish 24 hours.
No cooking surface diameter. “Large diameter nonstick cooking surface for easy browning” names no figure — where the Ninja HyperHeat machines publish “9.5” diameter” and the Instant Pot describes “the same cooking surface as an 8-inch pan”.
No oil capacity beyond “ten cups”, and no maximum fill line for boiling — which on a ten-quart kettle is the number that decides whether a pasta pot boils over.
No basket dimensions or material.
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: $89 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.
| Capacity | 10 quarts — the largest on this shelf |
|---|---|
| Deep fries | Up to ten cups — the only fryer here |
| Immersible | Fully, with the heat control removed — unique on this shelf |
| Heat control | Control Master, automatic, and removable |
| Coating | PFAS-free ceramic nonstick, inside and out |
| Basket | Multi-use, for frying, steaming and blanching; hooks on the rim to drain |
| Cover | Tempered glass |
| Surface | Large diameter non-stick, stated for browning |
| Weight | 3139 g (110.7 oz) — the lightest machine on this shelf |
| Footprint | 406 × 311 × 210 mm (16 × 12.2 × 8.27 in) |
| Reference | 06009 |
| Electronics | None — no display, no presets, no touchscreen |
| Pressure | No |
| Wattage | Not published |
| Amazon reference | B07TRNP5V7 |
| EAN | 0075741060095 |
The heat control unplugs and the kettle goes in the sink — and it is the only machine on this shelf you can wash that way. Two bullets together make the claim. "Control Master heat control maintains cooking temperatures automatically", and "Fully immersible with heat control removed." How it works. The element and the thermostat are in a probe that plugs into the side of the kettle. Pull it out and what remains is a metal pot with no electrical parts in it at all — so it can be filled with water, scrubbed, or put in a washing-up bowl like any saucepan. Nothing else on this shelf is immersible. Every other machine here has its element bonded into the base, which is why the best any of them manage is a removable inner pot and a wipe of the body. The best of those statements: the Ninja PRO Plus at $139.99 — "Inner pot, lid, and spoon are all dishwasher safe"; the PowerXL at $95.99 — "Pot, Lid, and Paddle go straight into the dishwasher"; the Cosori at $80.99 — "dishwasher-safe lid, ceramic coating inner pot, and accessories", plus a "0.5-inch widened pot gap" to get into the crevice between pot and body. And the most honest: the Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS at $129.99 — "Utensil & glass lid are dishwasher safe. Hand-washing pot recommended to extend its life." Why immersibility matters most on this particular machine. It is the only one on this shelf that deep fries — "Deep fries up to ten cups" — and deep frying is the messiest thing any of these machines does. Hot oil creeps, film polymerizes on the walls, and the only cure is hot water and a scourer. A machine you can fill with soapy water is the right machine for that job, and this is the only one here that is.
It is the whole design, and on this shelf it is the sharpest contrast there is. The page publishes one control: "Control Master heat control maintains cooking temperatures automatically." A dial, and a thermostat behind it. No display, no timer, no delay start, no touchscreen, no "in-1" count. Compare the shelf. BELLA at $79.99 has a "Simple Touchscreen Cooking Control" with eight presets. Cosori at $80.99 lists thirteen functions. COMFEE’ at $68.99 publishes nine functions, twelve presets in a heading and fourteen in a sentence — three incompatible numbers on one page. Sweetcrispy at $49.91 claims sixteen-in-one and a 24-hour delay start. Instant Pot Rio Mini at $89.99 has seven functions and a progress indicator. PowerXL at $95.99 has nine presets and a motorized paddle. What a preset actually is: somebody else’s guess at your recipe, held at a fixed temperature for a fixed time. What a dial is: your guess, which you can change mid-cook. And this page lists what the dial covers in plain verbs: "Steams, stews, roasts, boils, and deep fries", plus "soup and stew, roasts, ham, rice, vegetables, pasta". Six cooking methods and seven foods, with no numbers attached. What you lose is unattended cooking. No timer means nothing switches off — so a slow braise needs you in the house, where a machine with a preset and a keep-warm does not. Seven machines on this shelf publish a keep-warm function; this does not. What you gain is immediacy and simplicity. Nothing to learn, nothing to fail, and a control that can be replaced separately if it does.
Because there is no pressure vessel and no cast pot, and it is the clearest trade on this shelf. The numbers. Ten quarts, 3139 grams, 406 × 311 × 210 mm (16 × 12.2 × 8.27 in). The shelf by weight: this 3139 g (110.7 oz) · BELLA 4196–4200 g (148 to 148.2 oz) (8.5 qt) · Instant Pot 4944 g (174.4 oz) (4 qt) · PowerXL 5103 g (180 oz) (7.5 qt) · Sweetcrispy 5398 g (190.4 oz) and Cosori 5398 g (190.4 oz) (6 qt) · Ninja PRO Plus 5561 g (196.2 oz) (8.5 qt) · Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS 6759 g (238.4 oz) (8.5 qt) · Ninja HyperHeat x3 7199 g (253.9 oz) (6.5 qt). COMFEE’ publishes none. So the largest pot on this shelf sits in the lightest machine, and the heaviest machine here has a pot a third the size. Why. A pressure cooker is a vessel. It has a locking lid, a gasket, a valve, a vent, a pressure sensor and a body built to hold all of it — which is where the Ninja HyperHeat’s 7199 grams goes. And a cast pot is mass by design: the three BELLA machines publish "cast aluminum", and cast means thick because thickness is thermal ballast. This machine has neither. A thin metal kettle, a glass lid, a basket and a plug-in control — and ten quarts of volume costs almost nothing in weight when the walls are thin. What that costs in use. Less thermal mass means a faster drop when cold food goes in, which matters for searing and matters very much for deep frying: oil that loses temperature makes greasy food. With ten cups of oil in it there is thermal mass in the oil itself, which is the saving grace. And what it buys is the thing in the previous answer: a pot light enough to lift full, and light enough to carry to the sink.
Details checked on October 5, 2026.
Big batches, frying and boiling, where washing the whole thing matters
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Best for: A first electric pressure cooker, with three pressure levels and something printed to read.
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Best for: A cook who cares more about the interlocks and the cleaning than about kPa.
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Best for: A cook who repeats recipes and wants the machine to remember them.
