I tried making bread and sweets using Helsio Hot Cook and cotta

I have been working from home for over a year now. Some of you may be in a similar situation to me.

For me, work is more efficient at home, but the problem is how to enjoy my private time. I have tried various things such as games, running, language study, Beyblade, musical instruments, rabbits, handicrafts, Mercari. In the end, it was the cooking that I enjoyed taking the time to do. Engadget previously delivered a pattern of challenging low-temperature cooking using "BONIQ 2.0".

This time, I would like to enjoy cooking at home using Sharp's Helsio Hot Cook. There may be indications such as "It's too late to cook hot?". I had an image that hot cook could easily cook simmered dishes, but when I heard that bread and sweets can be cooked with hot cook, I was curious, so I borrowed a sample.

Sharp Helsio Hot Cook (Amazon)

What is Helsio Hot Cook?

Hot Cook is a home appliance that literally "cooks" just by leaving it alone. Cut vegetables, meat, etc., put it in the hot cook according to the recipe, and press the cooking button to complete cooking. In addition, it is equipped with a wireless LAN function and recipes can be downloaded.

Chicken and Vegetable Curry (Anhydrous Curry) COCORO KITCHEN

■ Let's make bread!

In the menu distributed for hot cook, there are several collaboration menus with "cotta", a mail-order site for confectionery and bakery ingredients, so I decided to try it.

First, I bought a cinnamon roll kit (780 yen) from cotta and started cooking. Melt the butter, mix each flour in a bowl, form a ball, and set in the hot cook.

Throw in the ingredients, press the button, and you're done! It took so much man-hours that I can't say... However, the advantage of hot cook & cotta is that the correct amount of ingredients is prepared and the hot cook ferments and heats accurately, so it is quite difficult to make mistakes. You can avoid mistakes such as "cannot ferment well" and "dough has become hard", so if you are a beginner in bread making, you can use these sets to enjoy making bread first.

Cinnamon roll (cotta) COCORO KITCHEN

Sharp Helsio Hot Cook (Amazon)

Next, we will make simple torn bread. I also bought a kit of materials from cotta.

It was easier and less man-hours than cinnamon rolls. The bread itself is very flavorful and chewy, so if you're going to put something in between, it's better to prepare ingredients that are as strong as the bread.

Simple torn bread (cotta) COCORO KITCHEN

■Also cake!

Lastly, let's make a cake. Hot Cook's sponge cake recipe is not a collaboration with cotta, so stock up on ingredients at the supermarket.

Sponge cake itself can be done in the same way with a rice cooker, but in the case of a hot cook, the temperature is precisely adjusted according to the recipe, so it can be baked without failure.

Sponge cake COCORO KITCHEN

As a whole impression, it took more man-hours than I expected, but the hot cook was reassuring for beginners in situations where it was difficult to use only the oven. If you want to make bread more easily, you should prepare a home bakery instead of a hot cook.

For those like me who are into cooking but haven't yet bought a hot cook, it can be used as a persuasive (convincing) material for your family and yourself, such as "I can make bread and sweets ...". It may become

Sharp Helsio Hot Cook (Amazon)

Related link: Bread and sweets that can be easily made with Hot Cook (Sharp)