The TOKIT Omni Cook can handle the jobs of more than 20 kitchen gadgets
The TOKIT Omni Cook might be the kitchen appliance of your dreams if you long to get more ambitious with your cooking but don’t have the space, or perhaps experience, to do so.
It combines the functions of 20-plus kitchen gadgets into one appliance that takes up less than one square foot of worktop space.
TOKIT’s Omni Cook can chop, knead, sauté, steam, stew, grind, whisk, ferment and more.
It’s a kitchen appliance that is more like a full kitchen, able to whip up full meals with very little effort or expertise required your end.
The obvious question now is how?
Omni Cook: Cooking genius
Both the heating and food processing elements of the TOKIT Omni Cook offer very refined control.
The 500W motor mixer blades can spin at speeds between 40 and 12000rpm, letting it switch from a way to turn over ingredients in a stew to a coffee bean grinder with a quick twist of its central control knob.
Its 1200W thermometer-controlled heater can maintain any temperature between 35 degrees and 180 degrees centigrade, for the kind of thermal finesse that is just not possible to achieve for the average home cook.
TOKIT doesn’t just give you the tools, though. It can do most of the work for you.
On its tablet-like 7-inch screen you can choose from a library of over 900 recipes on the CookNJoy cloud cookbook.
You’re then led through each step of the process, and the Omni Cook sets the required temperature and blade speeds, leaving you to simply put in the ingredients as needed.
Once one part of the recipe has finished, you’ll hear a tone through the Omni Cook’s speaker, letting you get on with other jobs in the meantime without risking burning or overcooking your creation.
You won’t even need a scale anymore, as one is built into the unit. It’s a high fidelity scale too, letting you nail the recipe down to the gram with just the tiniest amount of care.
And, if you decide you want to go freestyle and ignore TOKIT’s free-to-use online recipe library, you can.
Just set the temperature, time and blade speed, and let the Omni Cook do its thing.
Endless possibilities
Alongside the main unit, the 2.2l mixing bowl and blade set, you get a set of measuring spoons, a scraper, a whisk attachment and a simmering basket.
You might use this to boil potatoes, keeping them away from the blades at the bottom of the bowl. The sheer variety of dishes you can make with an Omni Cook would be intimidating if the easy-to-use software didn’t make it all so accessible.
You can make yoghurt, soups, a stir fry and pizza dough, sous vide steak, fruit coulis, perfectly cooked rice and even your own soybean milk.
The opportunities to explore only widen when you add a TOKIT accessory or two.
Its Steamer Set lets you easily cook three healthy dishes at the same time as it’s a dual layer construction, and you can use the bundled simmering basket for the third dish.
You might want to consider the Slow-Cook plug too. This lets you remove the blade set, increasing the total capacity of the bowl should your recipe not require regular stirring.
This sounds like batch cooking bliss. The hardest part might be finding all the ingredients you’ve never even considered buying before in the supermarket.
You can have a browse of some of the recipes available on the Omni Cook over at the TOKIT website for a preview.
We like the sound of the 15-minute vanilla custard, something that always seems perilously easy to mess up when making custard manually on the hob, without the aid of careful temperature control. TOKIT even helps out with clean-up.
Food processors are notoriously fiddly to clean, as the small parts in the blade housing typically become caked in leftover mix. However, here there’s a pre-clean mode.
You put some water into the mixing bowl, and the Omni Cook heats it up and spins, for a turbo charged version of soaking.
It means after perhaps 10 minutes you just need to give the bowl and blade set a quick wipe down and rinse.
The stats behind the scenes
Want to know some more of the TOKIT Omni Cook nitty-gritty?
The mixing bowl is made of food safe 304-grade stainless steel and it locks into place so will only operate when safely attached.
It has its own Wi-Fi connection for access to the CookNJoy cloud-based recipe service, so no Bluetooth connection to a phone is required.
You use the 7-inch touchscreen to flick through the library, while the tactile control wheel below the display offers an intuitive way to alter the mixer speed, temperature and duration for different stages of a recipe.
The internal weighing scale is accurate to +/- 1g, and while all versions of the TOKIT Omni Cook can reach temperatures up to 180 degrees centigrade (356 degrees Fahrenheit), the power of the heating element varies a little by territory.
UK and EU Omni Cooks have a 1200W element, US models a 1000W one.
Thanks to fine-grain control over the blade speed and temperature, and the wide array of accessories, the limitations here are going to be defined by your imagination as much as anything else.
However, TOKIT’s 15 modes + manual mode give you a good idea of the scope of this versatile and smart multi-cooker.
- Here’s that list:
- Kneading mode
- Ice shaving mode
- Juicing mode
- Stew mode
- Steaming mode
- Weighing mode
- Grinding mode
- Mince mode
- Chopping mode
- Turbo mode
- Cleaning mode
- Soy milk mode
- Yogurt mode
- Sous vide mode
- Mixing mode
TOKIT’s Omni Cook was originally crowd-funded on Kickstarter and Indiegogo, where it raised well over $1,000,000.
And it is now available to order direct from TOKIT.
A TOKIT Omni Cook costs $899. This includes the base unit plus mixing bowl, blade set, scraper, whisk attachment, measuring cup, simmering basket and a set of measuring spoons.
The highly recommended steamer set is currently available for $59, while the Slow-cook Plug is an extra $24.90.
The main body of the Omni Cook comes with a two-year warranty, and the CookNJoy cloud recipe platform is completely free to access.
No subscription required. What are you waiting for?