Pressure, and the eleven programs you will not use · review
A 7.5-quart multi-cooker with a motorized 360-degree stirring paddle, nine presets and a dishwasher-safe ceramic pot, lid and paddle.
The net of it The only machine on this shelf that stirs itself — a 360-degree paddle that shreds as well as stirs — and the only one that browns first and then drops to a simmer without being asked. Nine presets named exactly, which only one other page here manages.
“the 360° Automatic Paddle stirs and shreds so you don’t have to”
Thirteen machines here heat a pot and leave the stirring to you.
Where stirring is not optional.
Risotto — one of the nine presets, and a risotto releases its starch by friction. Left alone it is rice in soup. A roux or a thickened sauce scorches on the base the moment it stops moving. Polenta, porridge and rice pudding stick to a heated base within minutes.
Where shredding is the point. Pulled pork and shredded chicken are normally done with two forks after the braise — the meat comes out, cools enough to handle, gets pulled, and goes back.
A paddle turning in a finished braise does it in the pot and in the sauce, which is where the flavor is. And bullet three says the machine takes “6LBS of pork” — six pounds of pork is a lot of forking.
Two machines on this shelf make a related point worth setting beside this one.
Instant Pot Rio Mini, $89.99 — “Anti-spin design ensures the pot stays steady for effortless stirring and sautéing”, because an inner pot sitting loose in a body turns with the spoon Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS, $129.99 — “a Multi-functional utensil works as a ladle and pasta fork, plus it has its own utensil rest right in the lid handle”
A rest for the spoon is the honest version of the problem this machine removes.
And the paddle is dishwasher safe, which is not a small point: a paddle that has been in a braise for two hours is the messiest removable part on this shelf, and bullet five names it explicitly — “Pot, Lid, and Paddle go straight into the dishwasher”.
“Stirmax & Braisemax Smart Presets sauté, sear, & brown first before automatically switching to simmer”
It is the only automatic transition on this shelf.
Why a braise needs two temperatures. Browning does not begin below about 140 °C, and a braise holds at just below boiling — so the method is: get the pot very hot, brown the meat, then drop the heat and add liquid.
On a slow cooker you cannot brown at all, which is why the standard recipe tells you to use a frying pan first and transfer.
Three machines on this shelf solve the browning half with a temperature. The three BELLA machines at $79.99 and $93.95: “consistent temperature control up to 400°F for perfect searing” — 400 °F is 204 °C, comfortably into searing range.
Two solve it with power.
Ninja PRO Plus, $139.99 — “MORE POWERFUL SEARING*… 1400-watt power for high-temperature searing and sautéing directly in the pot” Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS, $129.99 — “Using the bottom heating elements, you are able to sear proteins and sauté vegetables right in the cooking pot—no need to transfer to the stovetop”
What none of them does is make the change for you. On every other machine here you sear on one setting, stop, and select another.
Here the preset does both halves in sequence — and combined with the paddle, a whole brown-and-braise is one button.
What is missing is the temperatures. No figure is published for the sear or for the simmer, which is the one thing that would let you compare it with the BELLA’s 400 °F.
And no wattage either. At least six of the eighteen machines on this shelf publish one: 1400 W on the Ninja PRO Plus · 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 here to publish “120 V 60 Hz, UL & ULC Listed”.
On a machine that sears, power is what decides whether the sear holds when cold meat lands in it. A sear that drops the surface temperature steams instead of browning.
“9 Pre-Programmed Presets… Stirmax, Braisemax, Slow Cook, Stew/Soup, Keep Warm, Steam/Boil, Risotto, Sauté, & Rice”
Nine named, nine claimed, and no “in-1” number at all.
Only one other page on this shelf is self-consistent: the Instant Pot Rio Mini at $89.99, which says “7-in-1” and names exactly seven.
The rest:
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 BELLA, $79.99 and $93.95 — “10-in-1”, “Replace Ten Bulky Kitchen Appliances”, four named, “eight presets” 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” Ninja HyperHeat, $139.99 — “9-in-1”, seven named plus “and more” Presto, $88.76 — no count at all, just a list of verbs
Two of the nine here are unique on this shelf.
Risotto — which no other machine names, and which only makes sense on a machine that stirs Braisemax — the brown-then-simmer program above
And one phrase in bullet three is a borrowed name rather than a function. “Crock Pot Fits two whole chickens* or 6LBS of pork”* — “Crock Pot” is a brand rather than a mode, and this is the only place on this shelf where a rival’s trade name is used as a common noun.
The double asterisk after “two whole chickens” is also worth noting: it points to a footnote that is not published.
The shelf by capacity:
4 qt — the Instant Pot Rio Mini at $89.99: “up to 4 servings” 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” 7 or 8.5 qt — the three BELLA machines, which contradict themselves: “7qt” in the title and “8.5-quart” in bullet two 7.5 qt — this: “two whole chickens or 6LBS of pork” 8.5 qt — the two Ninja PossibleCookers: “chili for up to 20 people”, “9 lbs” and “10 lbs” of spaghetti on the same pot 10 qt — the Presto at $88.76
And “two whole chickens” is the most generous food claim per quart on this shelf. The 6-quart Sweetcrispy says “whole chicken” singular. The 6.5-quart Ninja HyperHeat says “a 4-lb chicken or 5-lb roast”. The 8.5-quart BELLA says “a full five-pound chicken with room to spare”.
Which suggests the pot here is wide rather than tall — consistent with a stirring paddle, which needs to reach the whole base.
One real advantage this machine has over the six pressure cookers here, and no page 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. Seven and a half quarts here is seven and a half quarts.
At 5103 grams and 376 × 320 × 249 mm it is mid-shelf on both counts. The weights run from the Presto at 3139 g — the lightest machine here with the largest pot, because it is a thin kettle with a plug-in control rather than a pressure vessel — to the three Ninja HyperHeat machines at 7199 g on 6.5 quarts.
“DINNER’S DONE FOR YOU, 60% FASTER”
The bullet gives a figure and no baseline.
The speed claims on this shelf use four different ones:
Instant Pot, $89.99 — “up to 70% faster compared to slow cooking methods” Ninja HyperHeat, three machines — “up to 2X FASTER *Vs traditional slow cooking” 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” this — 60% faster, baseline unstated
And bullet one gives a hint of what the comparison is. “This slow cooker makes flavorful meals with no hassle” — so the machine describes itself as a slow cooker, and the likely baseline is slow cooking.
Which is comparing against the slowest method available.
The honest version of what this machine saves is not minutes on the hob. It is the two steps either side of the cook. No searing in a separate pan. No pulling the meat with forks. And no standing at the pot with a spoon.
For risotto in particular that is a real twenty minutes of attention rather than a percentage.
And the one thing this machine cannot do faster is what a pressure cooker does. At least six of the eighteen machines here pressurize: the Sweetcrispy at $49.91, the COMFEE’ at $68.99, the Cosori at $80.99, the Instant Pot Rio Mini at $89.99 and the three Ninja HyperHeat machines.
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 this machine does instead is attend to the pot for you, which is a different and genuinely useful thing.
“5X more durable non-stick ceramic-coated Pot, Lid, and Paddle go straight into the dishwasher or wipe clean easily—no soaking, no scrubbing”
“5X more durable” names no comparison — five times what is not stated.
And no chemistry is published, which puts it with two others on this shelf.
Four items do publish a chemistry claim:
BELLA, $79.99 and $93.95 — the only footnote here: “ceramic coating materials made without PFAS, PTFE, PFOA, lead or cadmium” Presto, $88.76 — “PFAS-free ceramic nonstick finish, inside and out”, the only “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”
One makes the weak 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.
Three say “ceramic” with no chemistry: this, the Sweetcrispy at $49.91, the Cosori at $80.99. 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.
Why durability is the right thing to claim on this machine in particular. There is a motorized paddle turning against the coating for hours at a time. Every other pot on this shelf is only ever touched by a spoon when you choose to touch it — this one has a mechanical part sweeping the base and the walls on every cycle.
So “5X more durable” is addressing a real stress, and the page gives you no way to check it.
The cleaning claim is the strongest on this shelf and it covers all three parts. Pot, lid and paddle in the dishwasher. Compare: the Sweetcrispy at $49.91 names only “the lid and sealing ring”; the COMFEE’ at $68.99, the three BELLA machines, the Presto at $88.76 and the three Ninja HyperHeat machines publish no dishwasher statement at all; and the Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS at $129.99 is the most honest — “Utensil & glass lid are dishwasher safe. Hand-washing pot recommended to extend its life.”
That caveat applies here too. A dishwasher cycle is hot, alkaline and abrasive, and a ceramic coating is what it wears — so the claim means the parts will survive the machine, not that they will last as long that way.
No wattage, as above — and on a machine that sears before it simmers, it is the figure that decides whether the sear holds.
No temperature. No sear temperature, no simmer temperature, no range. 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 “up to 400°F”.
No coating chemistry, as above.
No baseline for either numeric claim — “60% FASTER” and “5X more durable” both stand alone.
No paddle detail. No material, no speed, no statement of whether it can be left out — which matters, because a paddle in the pot is a paddle in the way of a whole chicken. Bullet three claims “two whole chickens”, and the page does not say whether the paddle comes out to make room.
No lid material. The lid is named in the cleaning bullet and nowhere described — where the Presto at $88.76 publishes a “tempered glass cover”, the Ninja PRO Plus a “Glass Cooking Lid”, and the Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS a “glass lid”. On a machine with a motor in the lid area, whether you can see the risotto matters.
No delay timer, where the Sweetcrispy at $49.91 and the COMFEE’ at $68.99 both publish 24 hours.
No sous vide, which six machines on this shelf claim — and none of them publishes a temperature tolerance, so its absence here is arguably the more honest position.
No oven-safe or removable-pot statement, where five machines on this shelf publish one.
No footnote for the double asterisk after “two whole chickens”.
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: $96 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.
| Stirring paddle | 360 degrees, motorized, stirs and shreds — unique on this shelf |
|---|---|
| Brown then simmer | Stirmax and Braisemax sear first, then switch automatically |
| Presets | Nine, named exactly — matching no "in-1" claim |
| Capacity | 7.5 quarts — two whole chickens or 6 lbs of pork |
| Speed claim | 60 percent faster |
| Pot, lid and paddle | All dishwasher safe |
| Coating | Ceramic, stated five times more durable |
| Pressure | No — one of eight non-pressure machines here |
| Weight | 5103 g (180 oz) |
| Footprint | 376 × 320 × 249 mm (14.8 × 12.6 × 9.80 in) |
| Reference | MC107D-1GP |
| Wattage | Not published |
| Coating chemistry | Not published — "ceramic-coated" with no PFAS statement |
| Temperature | Not published |
| Amazon reference | B0DC1YBNM8 |
| EAN | 0027043003270 |
The two jobs that need a hand in the pot for an hour — and no other machine on this shelf has one. Bullet one: "With our Stirmax Technology, the 360° Automatic Paddle stirs and shreds so you don’t have to." Where stirring is not optional. Risotto — which is one of the nine presets — releases its starch by friction, and a risotto left alone is rice in soup rather than risotto. A roux or a thickened sauce scorches on the base the moment it stops moving. And polenta, porridge and rice pudding all stick to a heated base within minutes. Where shredding is the point. Pulled pork and shredded chicken are normally done with two forks after the braise, which means the meat has to come out, cool enough to handle, be pulled, and go back. A paddle turning in a finished braise does it in the pot and in the sauce — which is also where the flavor is. Bullet three says the machine fits "6LBS of pork", and six pounds of pork is a lot of forking. What the rest of the shelf does instead: nothing. Thirteen machines here heat a pot and leave the stirring to you. Two make a related point about stirring that is worth setting beside this one. The Instant Pot Rio Mini at $89.99: "Anti-spin design ensures the pot stays steady for effortless stirring and sautéing" — because an inner pot sitting loose in a body turns with the spoon. And the Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS at $129.99 supplies "a Multi-functional utensil" that "works as a ladle and pasta fork" with "its own utensil rest right in the lid handle". A rest for the spoon is the honest version of the problem this machine removes. And the paddle is dishwasher safe, which matters: a paddle that has been in a braise for two hours is the messiest removable part on this shelf.
It removes the step every braise recipe starts with, and it is the only automatic transition on this shelf. Bullet two: "Stirmax & Braisemax Smart Presets sauté, sear, & brown first before automatically switching to simmer for perfectly cooked meals in minutes—juicy on the inside & evenly browned on the outside." Why a braise needs two temperatures. Browning does not begin below about 140 °C (284 °F), and a braise holds at just below boiling — so the method is: get the pot very hot, brown the meat, then drop the heat and add liquid. On a slow cooker you cannot brown at all, which is why the standard recipe tells you to use a frying pan first and transfer. Three machines on this shelf solve the browning half by publishing a high temperature. The three BELLA machines at $79.99 and $93.95: "consistent temperature control up to 400°F for perfect searing". 400 °F is 204 °C (399 °F), comfortably into searing range. And two solve it with power: the Ninja PRO Plus at $139.99 — "MORE POWERFUL SEARING*... 1400-watt power for high-temperature searing and sautéing directly in the pot" — and the Ninja PossibleCooker PLUS at $129.99: "Using the bottom heating elements, you are able to sear proteins and sauté vegetables right in the cooking pot—no need to transfer to the stovetop." What none of them does is make the change for you. On every other machine on this shelf you sear on one setting, then stop, then select another. Here the preset does both halves in sequence — and combined with the paddle, the whole brown-and-braise is one button. What is missing is the temperatures. No figure is published for the sear or the simmer, which is the one thing that would let you compare it with the BELLA’s 400 °F.
It is, and on this shelf it is a mark in its favor. Bullet four: "9 Pre-Programmed Presets allow you to choose the meal you want: Stirmax, Braisemax, Slow Cook, Stew/Soup, Keep Warm, Steam/Boil, Risotto, Sauté, & Rice." Nine named, nine claimed, and no appliance count at all. Only one other page on this shelf is self-consistent: the Instant Pot Rio Mini at $89.99, which says "7-in-1" and names exactly seven. The rest: COMFEE’ at $68.99 publishes 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 at $80.99 says "9-in-1" and lists thirteen. BELLA at $79.99 says "10-in-1", claims to "Replace Ten Bulky Kitchen Appliances", names four, and offers "eight presets". Sweetcrispy at $49.91 says "16-in-1" and names four appliances and twelve presets. Ninja’s PossibleCooker PLUS at $129.99 says "6-in-1" and "REPLACES 12 COOKING TOOLS"; the PRO Plus at $139.99 says "9-in-1" and "REPLACES 16". And two of the nine presets here are unique on this shelf. Risotto — which no other machine names, and which only makes sense on a machine that stirs. And Braisemax, the brown-then-simmer program described above. One preset is a borrowed name rather than a function: "Crock Pot" appears in bullet three — "Crock Pot Fits two whole chickens" — which is a brand rather than a mode, and the only place on this shelf where a rival’s trade name is used as a common noun.
Details checked on October 5, 2026.
Braises, risotto and shredded meat, where stirring is the chore you want gone
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