I used my slow cooker at least twice a week. It was fantastic. I found it easy to clean, easy to use, and loved all the recipes I could create...until I was cooking my sausage hotpot (a family favourite), and I went to check on it 2 hours out of finishing and it was cold! I tried again and still cold. The hotplate has stopped working. And again, like others, just out of warranty!!!

It kept on switching off before the food was cooked. On the third and last chance, at the end of 3 hour cooking period, I was defeated for the last time. Dinner was late, we had to leave for training after switching the menu to sandwiches for dinner. While my kitchen would pretty much be the perfect Breville advert this slow cooker was the Royal let down of all my appliances.
The item was returned to the supplier who took it back with no objections. I haven't seen the Breville Multi Chef BRC600 available on the shelves since.

This was a fantastic machine for cooking rice, risotto, slow cooked meats and casseroles, and all sorts of things... then it just stopped working. Any setting — saute, slow cook high or low, rice or risotto — none function, the bowl no longer becomes warm. From this website and others this sounds like a common problem. Called their support centre — the staff were friendly, but this unit cannot be fixed or serviced at all. They offered a discount on a replacement, but it's based on their website's recommended retail price and works out to be about the same as the actual price of a new unit from a retail outlet. Just over two and half years of service is pretty disappointing.

I was happy with this product, it worked well, easy to clean. Mostly used the rice cooker function, and occasionally the risotto, sear and slow cook functions.
Buuuut...like other reviewers have stated here, it completely stopped dead with the hotplate not heating up at all after about 3 years!
Disappointing. At the price point I would have expected the product to last longer. I probably used it on average no more than fortnightly.

We purchased one of this cooker less than two years ago. 11 month after purchase it stopped working. Replacing unit just stopped working exactly 11months after first use. These cookers seems to come with self-destruct timer!!! Or there are some serious defective designs. The multifuntions are fine when not broken.

The cooker is fast to heat up and works great in the first few moths, but the coating on the black pot started to come off more and more after a few months. I mostly use it for cooking rice, boiling hot water or making soup and don't scratch it with any sharp object. I have never seen this in any other rice cookers I bought before so the pot material/coating is the worse compare to everything I used before.

I have used this as a rice cooker, slow cooker as well as to sauté and even cook a whole chicken and can also make homemade toasted museli.

I find it does best as a slow cooker. My rice cooker makes better rice but this one cooks it very quickly.

Great that you can sauté and slow cook in one machine.

Very happy with this purchase

This product is well-made and is very easy to use. It also well-designed and looks stylish and durable. I have been using it with great results for a variety of dishes for a few months now. It is also very easy to clean with a non-stick surface. I would recommend this product to a friend.

I have no idea how I managed in the kitchen before my husband bought me this! I absolutely love it, it’s easy to use, extremely easy to clean most of the time only needing to be wiped over! I use this at least 3 times a week it’s my favourite kitchen appliance!

It works well at the beginning, but after the guarantee expires you will be left with an useless product. Mine has stopped working completely. Turns on but doesn’t heat up. I got almost all my kitchen appliances from this brand and most of them have stopped working. My conclusion is this brand is really bad!

Had this for about three months, cooks rice really well without having to stress on keeping an eye on it.

Using it as a steamer also works great, used it a few times to cook hot dogs. Really recommend this one. Have the Toaster kettle and this cooker in the series.

I always liked Breville and have a few appliances of this brand. This Slowcooker is of excellent quality in line with other Breville products. It makes my life so much easier, I can take the kids to sport on Saturday morning and have lunch ready by the time we are back. It cooks my meals evenly and nothing sticks to the bottom.

Same with others here, mine has power but doesn’t heat up. Not worth the money. Should this be raised with ACCC? Shouldn’t this be withdrawn from the market? Expensive but not worth if you only use for a few times and stopped working? What else can I say? C’mon Breville!

I bought this rice cooker from The Good Guys for AUD$109 and I am very impressed by the cooking speed, it takes like 10 minutes only to cook the rice. What I also love about this product is it's 3.7L capacity plus being able to select cooking temperature and duration with its slow cook, risotto, saute, warming, and steaming functions.

Very easy to use with a good starting out recipe book included.

The searing function allows one single pot to be used for cooking a whole meal unlike many slow cookers where the food needs searing ( such as onions and meat) before putting in the slow cooker.

Great for stews as well as risottos. A personal favourite.

I was looking for a rice cooker combined with a slow cooking function after my tefal one was broken. It's kind of powerful, I mainly use rice cooking function. There are two slow cooking options but I find them less convenient than my ex-tefal. Sear and saute is useful. My biggest problem is that the keep warm function does not operate alone, it only works after rice cooking is done. If the device is turned off for some reason then you can't put it on keep warm again unless you put rice cooking on which makes the rice over cooked and crusty, after it's done "again" keep warm will operate.Forgot to say that it has a very nice and sleek design!

Very happy with this products, the rice cooking function is awesome and it cooks many cups of rice at once. The only issue I have is that the steam comes out the sides of the lid and makes quite a mess on the kitchen bench. I have not tried the slow cook function yet but the rice always comes out fluffy and I love that I can steam my vegies at the same time. Great for curries and stir fry's

When first turned on the ON/OFF Button lights up White which is OFF.
Select the type of cooking you want then press the ON/OFF button to turn it RED, this is ON.

When turned off White, It will turn itself off after about 2 minutes.

An Excellent cooker and recipies, makes very nice roce and stews