Just bought HD2178 from Costco last week. It’s very easy to use and very quiet when using the pressure cooking mode. I’ve been using other brands, never seen the pressure cooker can be so quiet, unbelievable quiet! Foods are all cooked just nice and yummy. It also very clean as the steam will not splashing out everywhere like others pressure cooking. Most important is its save my cooking time and all the cleaning hassles.
It’s a good product and strongly recommend every household to own one.
I’m getting excited as lots of cooking can be used by this fantastic cooker, from meat, soup to many types of desserts, everyday I just keep discovering it. You will regret if don’t have it!

This Has become an indispensable part of our household. Partner uses it to make dishes she would never have attempted before. And it’s super fast and easy. we have told our friends about it and even they are raving about it now.
we have only used the pressure cooker function so far and it’s been superb. It has paid for itself many times over. The only gripe I had is that the buttons are hard to press.

My 10 minute risotto has so far taken over an hour because the steps to fry off chicken, then onion and bacon, then toast rice have taken an age on the high temp sear setting. The chicken didn’t even colour! I’ve just checked it and the rice is boiling even though I’ve checked and rechecked the seal it isn’t going well. The yoghurt recipe in the cookbook isn’t set, very liquid although it does taste good. The olive, garlic and lemon roast chicken from the cookbook didn’t get a “nice sear on the breast”, it burned although the chicken itself was tender and moist.

This is my first experience with a pressure cooker and I WANT to love it but so far I’m not getting a lot of joy and I’m a competent cook.

Finally by the third day, we became good friends. Now have formed a perfect relationship. Bought it for the two inner pots, cakes and yoghurt, which are all excellent. Corn beef melts in the mouth, use manual setting and extend time to 59 minutes for 2 kg. Casseroles are so tender, also extend cooking time owing to large quantity. One grouch, and of course it is the same as most others.. re manual explanations. Could we please have a correct interpretation? There are over 23,000 000 who live on this large island and many of us are hooked on Philips products, especially me. Love the warming button. A pleasure to clean. Many thanks for making life easier.

I bought the top of the range cooker I do not like the touch screen it does not respond to activate Start I have to cancel and re-do to get it started very ticked off.
I have cooked several meals in it and select my own cooking times but touch screen does not instantly respond to my commands I am not sure if I have a dud unit standing there for over 5 mins waiting for it to accept the start process. Also you cannot rest the lid onto the cooker when you remove it.

I bought this after seeing it on tv, its is the best, makes cooking easy, the cook book could be better, but that's the only complaint I have, would highly recommend this product

I am loving this product. The easy to use features enable me to cook my favorite dishes that take a long time to cook but with this pressure cooker, I manage to cook them in short period of time. I have used meat/poultry, stew,soup and recently bake a cake for my husband. Worth buying it!

I have tried several different dishes with this product, from slow cooking to high pressure cooking to using it as a heated saucepan for pasta. We tried Pasta Bolognese in the #phillipsallinonecooker. I made the Penne pasta in my Phillips Pasta machine, set aside and cooked up the spaghetti sauce as per the recipe. This was fine. Next step was to add the pasta, 270ml of water and close the lid. Touch Multicook and choose Stew/Curry, set cooking time to 30 minutes and press Start. Only the maximum I could get the timer to was 10 minutes and even then it didn't really count down nor cook the pasta. In the end I set it to pressure cooker for 10 minutes and this did the job. Would certainly cook the sauce in this every time though.

It's a little bit tricky to get started as the instructions aren't clear, but once you get going you'll enjoy using this cooker- sauté slow, fast or pressure cook. I tried to cook rice first and my experience wasn't positive. The pressure cooker took over 40minutes to get to pressure and the rice was awful. I've tried several times but no improvements. Sadly I bought this machine as an all in one but can't get rid of the old cheap rice cooker!
The benefit of the premium is having a stainless steel bowl which I put in the dishwasher.