If you only add one colour to your home this year, it just has to be orange.

The bright hue is a must in every modern home, so if you’re looking to add a splash of colour to your kitchen, it’s definitely the tone to go for.

Pantone, the world’s leading authority on colour, believes on-trend orange can give people a real energy boost to help them “recharge and move forward”. So adding the bright shade when you’re freshening up your kitchen on a budget can only be a good thing!

If you are planning to redecorate your kitchen soon, Morphy Richards Colour Boutique range is just the thing to inject some brightness into your home.

To be bang on trend, you should really get your hands on the Accents Vibrant Orange Kettle and Toaster.

The chic four-slice toaster is curved and trimmed, making it a sophisticated addition to every kitchen. And, for added style and wow factor, the matching six-cup kettle with boil dry protection and 360-degree cordless base will finish off your contemporary kitchen design.

For a splash of sunshine brightness all the year round, orange is the tone you should be adding to your kitchen this year.

It will probably come as no surprise that the colours we choose to decorate our homes have a bearing upon our mood and emotions.

In everyday life, we sometimes use colours to explain emotions – someone might be green with envy or feeling rather blue, so it’s clear certain hues are associated with different moods.

When decorating all rooms in the home, the key is to choose the colours very carefully. At Morphy Richards, our Colour Boutique collection, which features 12 striking colours, is a great place to start for inspiration.

If you want your kitchen to really stand out and grab everyone’s attention, the Red Sparkle Kettle and Toaster could be for you. The hue stimulates the emotions and is bold and strong – the ideal tone if you want to make an impression.

At the other end of the scale, you’ve got the stylish, yet calming, Vibrant Cyan Kettle and Toaster set. If you want a bit of peace and relaxation in your home, blue is just the colour.

If you’ve got a rather sunnier disposition, the Vibrant Yellow Kettle and Toaster are bound to fit perfectly in your kitchen. The tone exudes brightness and fun, making your home far cheerier.

Even if you’re not keen on bright colours, black and white tones are responsible for changing your home’s ambience too.

Once you’ve purchased a Morphy Richards appliance, we want to make sure that you get the most from it – that’s why we created ‘Home of the House Proud’ and it’s also why we recently teamed up with author Richard Ehrlich to launch a brand new recipe book for bread maker owners entitled, ’80 Recipes for your Bread Maker’.

Richard Ehrich has written on food for The Times, Guardian, Financial Times and Time Out, where he is also a contributor to the Time Out Eating and Drinking Guide. He has won two Glenfiddich Awards for his drinks column in the Independent on Sunday and is currently the wine editor of Good Housekeeping. In addition to this bread maker recipe book, he’s also put one together for a Halogen Oven and Pressure Cooker.

’80 Recipes for your Bread Maker’ really does demonstrate how versatile this appliance can be and includes tasty and nutritious recipes for every occasion. The book covers classic, simple loaves, such as White Bread and Rye Bread; Flavoured Breads, such as Goat’s Cheese and Sun-Dried Tomato Bread, and Peanut Butter Bread; and cakes and sweet laves, including Chocolate Marmalade Marble Cake and Pear Cake. The book also teaches you how to use a Morphy Richards bread maker to knead dough so that you can effortlessly make anything from Mushroom Pizza to Raisin Buns.

The mouth-watering photography in the book will inspire you to get your apron out and start baking today. Packed with reliable advice and inventive recipes, this book is just what you need to get the most from your bread maker.

You can get your copy of ’80 Recipes for your Bread Maker’ from the Morphy Richards website or by calling our customer care team on: 0844 873 0726. The book is priced at £14.99.

If you pick up a copy and make a recipe from it, or have your own delicious breadmaker recipe that you regularly make, we’d love you to share it with us on our Facebook page!

Happy Bread Making!

We’ve had a busy few weeks here at Morphy HQ, reading all of the great entries that we’ve received from food and mummy bloggers to become a Morphy Richards ‘Innovator’ for the next 12 months. Our ‘Innovators’ do a very important job by testing and reviewing our latest appliances and giving us the valuable feedback that we need in order to make them even better!

With the support of Sally Whittle and her team at the Foodies 100 (which Morphy Richards sponsors) and the Tots 100, we asked bloggers to submit an entry around the following, whilst looking for individuality, personality and great writing:

• Top Tips for Housework…
• Domestic Disasters…
• Kitchen Inventions…

In total, we received over an incredible 130 entries – thanks to everybody that took the time to write an entry! We have painstakingly narrowed down all of the entries to 25 bloggers, who will become our new ‘Innovators’. Our ‘Innovators’ are…. *drum roll please*

Seasider in the City

Make It, Bake It

At Home with Mrs M

The Crazy Kitchen

Made by the chef

The Vegetarian Experience

Ramblings of a Suburban Mummy

Turquoise Lemons

The Five Fs

Casa Costello

London Unattached

92three30

Lavender and Lovage

Over a Cuppa

The Gingerbread House

Bad Fiction

Being Mrs C

Me and My Kiddywinks

A boy with Asperger’s

Knees Up Mother Brown

Inside the Wendy House

This is Me. Sarah Mum of 3

Lilynhaangel

Domestic Goddesque

Slummy Single Mummy

A big thanks again to all that entered. Those bloggers lucky enough to be selected will be hearing from us via e-mail over the next couple of days.

If you weren’t lucky enough to be selected, worry not, we will be running a whole host of activity through our sponsorship of the Foodies 100 that you’ll be able to get involved in. Alternatively, we’d love you to sign up to the ‘Morphy Members Club’ on Facebook.

Our latest vacuum cleaner, the Never Loses Suction Lift Away Bagless Upright Vacuum Cleaner by Morphy Richards has proved to be a huge hit, yet again, gaining a rave review in the Daily Mail.

We were thrilled to see at the weekend that the newspaper gave our top spring cleaning gadget a great 9/10 review, when searching for the best vacuums on the market.

The paper claimed the device is the “perfect answer” for anyone who can’t decide the type of vacuum they want. The product is the only vacuum cleaner available in the UK that boasts being an upright cleaner, with a function to turn it into a cylinder device, making for easy carrying up the stairs.

“Powerful and makes vacuuming almost enjoyable,” claimed the newspaper and it seems people up and down the country also agree.

Lots of you happy Morphy customers have headed over to Amazon to leave some fab reviews of the Never Loses Suction.

Oliver gave the NLS a five-star review on the retailer’s site, stating he was “impressed by how darn quiet the cleaner is” and that he “found it so fun to use with its ease of manoeuvrability and swivel steering as well as its compactness in getting into tight areas”.

Another happy customer, Helen, said the NLS is “brilliant in all respects, ease of use, suction and best of all price wise”. “I can’t fault it at all,” she said, giving it five out of five stars again.

“What a machine! Light, easy to use, well engineered and EFFECTIVE,” raved Gren W in his five-star review.

So there you have it; the Never Loses Suction from Morphy has not only won praise from the Daily Mail, but it has also been endorsed by satisfied customers around the UK. If you need any more convincing, our video below will show you just how the constant pick up performance works.

We’ve got an exclusive offer on the NLS right now, so you can get £100 off the cleaner when you enter this code: NLS100SM at the checkout stage on our website before May 31st. To get your hands on this great gadget, you just need to head over to the Morphy Richards website.

Here at Morphy HQ, we’ve been overwhelmed by the number of entries that we’ve received from ‘Mummy’ and ‘Foodie’ bloggers to become one of our ‘Innovators’ and test the latest products in our range. As a result of partnering with the ‘Foodies 100’ and ‘Tots 100’, we’ve received over 100 entries from blogger and are currently enjoying reading them all!

Last year, we worked with 15 bloggers who tested our appliances and provided valuable feedback and insight that we then passed on to our elite team of our designers. Our designers are now using much of that feedback when designing and developing future products. Following the initiative’s success, we are looking to recruit a further 30 bloggers.

We’re back off to read through more of the great entries, we’ll report back next week with details of our selected bloggers. We’ll also reveal our brand spanking new ‘Innovators’ badge which our bloggers will proudly display on their blogs.

We are delighted to announce that Morphy Richards is the official sponsor of the Foodies100.

We will be working in partnership with Foodies100 over the coming year hosting competitions, events, giveaways and much more!

To mark the start of the partnership we are working with Foodies100 and sister site Tots100 to recruit 25 brand new Innovators to expand our team of Morphy Richards bloggers.

There’s still time to get your entry blog post up to be in with the chance of becoming an official 2012 Innovator! Visit either the Tots100 or the Foodies100 to enter. Here are the details.

As a member of the team, you’ll receive new Morphy Richards products throughout the coming year to review on your blog. It’s a great opportunity to try out some new kitchen appliances, and provide your valuable honest feedback to the Morphy Richards team.

Morphy Richards will also work closely with Innovators to provide other great content on your blog, including competitions and giveaways. Reviews will be promoted via Morphy Richards’ blog, Home of the House Proud, allowing you to reach new audiences and raise the profile of your own blog.

How can you get involved?

Simple. We’re looking for Innovators who know what really goes into caring for a family, running a busy household, and who love to share their favourite tips and stories with their readers. So we’d like you to write a post on your blog showing us what you can do. To give you some inspiration, we’ve come up with three writing prompts to choose from. Feel free to interpret them in a way that works for you – we’re looking for individuality, personality and great writing.

A: Top tips for housework…

B: Domestic disasters…

C: Making family chores fun…

It’s entirely up to you what you write, but you must write your post before March 29^th, and you need to leave a link to your post in the widget at the bottom of this page before 5pm on that date.

Winners will be hand picked by the Morphy Richards team and announced on the Tots100 website after the closing date.

Good luck!

Here at Morphy, we love nothing better than hearing a great story about household appliances – especially our own!

So you can imagine how thrilled we were to hear from Debbie Bolas about her grandmother Annie Hall from Batley who designed the clicker switch one of our toasters, with the help of none other than brand co-founder Charles Richards.

Ms Hall was blind and, getting fed up of burnt toast, she enlisted the help of Mr Richards to help create a switch that would bring an end to her problems.

Here she is being presented with the very first one off the product line … Doesn’t she look proud?

Ms Bolas’ story got us thinking about the other great Morphy tales people might be storing away in their cupboards.

You may have seen that we’ve switched our Facebook page to the new timeline format, which allows you to post key milestones in your company history, and we want your help to tell our story throughout the years.

We want to hear about the oldest household appliances you’ve got knocking around in your home, whether it’s a 10 year old kettle, a 20 year old vacuum cleaner or an old faithful iron.

If you like our Facebook page, you’ve probably already seen stories like this one about the 60-year-old Morphy toaster. We want to uncover even more, and use our Facebook page to tell the story of Morphy Richards from your perspective.

As well as seeing your prized household appliance on our Facebook page, you’ll also be in with a chance of winning a striking Accents Blue Kettle and Toaster set!

How to Enter

Send an email to morphyrichardsuk@gmail.com with the following:

• Your name and contact details
• An image of your old product
• The year it was purchased
• Any additional product information e.g. product name, model number
• If there’s a cute or quirky story associated with it, let us know

We’ll showcase the best on our new timeline, and we’ll pick one winner at random on Monday 9th April.

Good luck!

We’re so excited to be at the Ideal Home Show this year, that we’re giving away 12 pairs of tickets to celebrate!

The show’s taking place at Earls Court in London from March 16^th until April 1^st and we’ll be there showing off some of our newest products, including our Never Loses Suction vacuum cleaner, the Power Steam Elite Steam Generator, and the fantastic new Colour Boutique range of kettles and toasters.

You’ll also be able to gather inspiration for your home and garden, check out the latest gadgets and meet famous household names including Masterchef’s Gregg Wallace and garden guru Alan Titchmarsh.

The Ideal Home Show first opened its doors more than 100 years ago, but you can be sure that when you head there you’ll be able to try out some of the most modern and high-tech gadgets on the market. It’s one of the biggest and best home shows around, so if you’re keen to spruce up your home, it’s definitely the place to be. And you can be, if you enter our great competition here on Home of the House Proud.

We’ve got 12 pairs of tickets to give away and to be in with a chance of winning, all you need to do is tell us (below) why you deserve the tickets over anyone else!

We’ll pick 12 winners at random, but be quick – the competition will end at 2pm on Wednesday (14^th March 2012) and announced on our Facebook Page

Good luck, and we look forward to seeing you at the Morphy Richards stand at the Ideal Home Show if you win!

It’s National Chip Week (20th – 26th Feb) and to celebrate we’re giving you the chance to win a Morphy Richards Deep Fat Fryer!

Us Brits really do go a bit mad for chips – they go with just about everything and you can eat them however you want, whether that’s slathered in ketchup or doused in vinegar.

We ran a poll on our Facebook page earlier this week to establish the nation’s favourite ‘style’ of chip – the runaway winner was the chunky variety, nabbing nearly 50% of all the votes!  Crinkle cut and wedges were also among the favourites…

Because we also love chips at ‘Home of the House Proud’ and because we’re kind, we’ve got one of our Professional Stainless Steel Fryers to giveaway to celebrate National Chip Week! Priced at £39.99, it’s a nifty kitchen gadget, with the capacity to hold up to 700g of food and 2.6l of oil. There’s a variable thermostat, so you can fry your food at anything between 150 and 190 degrees, ensuring it’s properly cooked through. And, it comes with a removable control panel, lid and tank, perfect for easy cleaning, and cool touch handles so you stay safe while cooking.

If this appliance sounds like something you’d love in your kitchen, you can enter the competition by telling us (below)what you love to put on your chips – the wackiest answer will win the fryer! You’ll need to hurry though – the competition closes at midday on Monday (27th Feb 2012) and the winner will be contacted and announced on our Twitter page on Tuesday (28th Feb 2012).

Good luck and we look forward to hearing about how you enjoy your chips!

So it’s Valentine’s Day and it’s freezing outside – what better way to spend the evening than curled up under a blanket with the one you love?

Rather than wasting all that money and energy turning up the heating in your house this February, why not get yourself a cosy electric blanket so you can get comfy on the sofa to watch a romantic film while you tuck into your box of chocolates!

The freezing temperatures don’t seem like they’re going away any time soon either, so it’s a great time to make the investment.

There are almost 20 types of blanket in our range, so you’re bound to find one which suits your needs, whether it be a fleece heated underblanket or a luxury quilted mattress topper.

No one wants to spend more money than they need to, so it’s definitely worth looking for ways to cut down on your energy usage so you’re not hit with a huge bill at the end of winter.

According to the Electric Blanket Institute, you will definitely save money by having an electric blanket. It costs far less to heat one bed than it does the entire house, so you’ll be able to turn down the thermostat when you go to sleep at night.

According to them, you can save 1% of your household heating bill for each degree you turn down your thermostat during an eight-hour period, so it’s well worth trying to do it!

Our electric blankets cost from as little as 2p per night to run, in comparison to the 70p it costs to heat the whole of your home.

35% off Morphy Richards electric blankets in February

We want to do all we can to help you stay warm this February, so we’re giving you a chance to save 35% on our entire range of electric blankets.

To take advantage, just use the following voucher code at the checkout stage of our website – BLK35SM.

Here’s to many warm and cosy nights ahead!



Ironing is one of those household chores that we all have to do at some point. Whether it’s giving a  work shirt a quick once over or a whole pile of bedding and school uniforms, wouldn’t it be great if we could spend less time stood behind the ironing board?

The good news is, we have the perfect answer to speed up the whole process with the uniquely designed Shirtmaster ironing board. With Shirtmaster, larger garments such as shirts and blouses fit around the ergonomically designed wide contours of the ironing board perfectly. So when you are working through your weekly ironing basket, you’ll find it quicker and easier than ever before. The cleverly designed Shirtmaster is longer than a standard board, which makes pressing trousers easier. Its narrow end is useful for hard-to reach areas, while the extra wide end fits the contours or a shirt perfectly. This makes it simpler to iron large items, such as bedding.



The even better news is that you grab yourself a Shirtmaster ironing board for half price if you purchase it with a Morphy Richards Comfigrip iron, saving £30! All you need to do is visit morphyrichards.com/shirtmasterironingboard and enter T05450 at checkout. But you’ll need to act fast as the offer ends this Sunday 12 February.

Check out the Shirtmaster in action here.

For those that missed our musings on last year’s Home Made Cook of the Year final at Denman College, we’ve captured it on video.

Below you can watch each of the three finalists explain the inspiration behind their dishes.

Why not give them a try yourself?

Yvonne Baily tells us about her dish, Pork with Orange and Ginger

Maria Kuehn fills us in on her dish, Chicken and Coriander Meatballs with Saffron and Courgette Rice.

Sue Wynn explains the thinking behind her winning dish, Andalucian Chicken.

Returning for it’s 13th year, this week is all about the importance of enjoying a healthy and fulfilling breakfast to energise your day. You can find out all about the campaign here

There’s no denying that life can be hectic and our mornings can often feel stretched even on the best of days. Tearing ourselves away from our beds in winter is an accomplishment, so here’s a few tips for motivation!

• Breakfast eaters tend to be slimmer than those who regularly skip
• Eating breakfast can lower cholesterol levels
• Eating breakfast gives people a more positive outlook with reductions in stress and a more positive outlook on the day overall!
• Plus it can improve concentration and performance at work

So what does this year’s theme ‘shake up your wake up’ mean? Simply making little changes in your morning routine to allow time for an exciting and varied breakfast will set you up for a better day. There’s nothing wrong with jam on toast but allow yourself an extra couple of minutes and treat yourself to some creative toast toppers, special smoothies or even a healthy fry up. Do you usually set your alarm for 7:30? Set it for 7:20 and look forward to breakfast every morning.

If your senses need energising even further, then check out the UKs most popular kettle and toaster sets from Morphy Richards’ new Colour Boutique range. The sets  are available in twelve vibrant and stylish colours which are sure to help brighten your eyes in the morning whilst providing taste to the kitchen as well as helping you prepare your creative and tasty breakfasts! Check out page 923 of the brand new Argos catalogue to see the full range of fab colours.

Have you bought a Morphy cooking appliance recently? Are you thinking about buying something from the range in the near future? If so, don’t throw away the packaging until you’ve found out what super prize you have won – we are giving away £100,000 worth of prizes as a thank you for purchasing one of our products!

Our ‘Home Made Heroes’ campaign, which is hosted at winwithmorphy.co.uk, guarantees an instant win for everyone who buys one of our products – simply type in your unique code and details on the website to find out what you’ve won. There are unique codes on our entire worktop cooking range, which includes breadmakers, slow cookers and fryers.

We have linked up with a number of our existing partners to offer prizes including Schwartz Slow Cooker Mixes, Roberts Radios, Stoves Mini Range cookers and Women’s Institute Cooking courses as well as Morphy Richards products and discount codes.

Good luck and don’t forget to let us know what you win!!

We recently launched a brand new range of appliances to make everyday tasks easier for the elderly and raise vital funds for Age UK (click here to check out the range).

Naturally, instead of asking our Innovators to test them out, we gave them the task of enlisting the help of an older relative to try out their product of choice and give us valuable feedback.

Not Supermum‘s ex-in laws were keen to review the Daily Loaf Breadmaker, wich bakes the perfect amount for fresh bread every day. You can read her thoughts below…

Morphy Richards products for Age UK ~ Daily Loaf breadmaker

This month there’s a change to my regular Houseproud Innovator review – someone else is reviewing this month’s product.

Morphy Richards is supporting the Age UK charity by designing and selling products that might make everyday tasks a little easier for older people.  Each of the items in the range of products come with up to a two year guarantee and a proportion of the sales (3%) go to Age UK, providing a vital source of income to help older people across the country. I love this idea!

So when I was asked if I knew an older person who might review one of the products, I immediately thought of my ex-mother-in-law who is in her 70s. As strange as it might sound, we get on very well and I thought she’d enjoy the chance to choose and review something from Morphy Richards.

She chose the daily loaf bread maker which is very compact and would sit neatly on a work surface without taking up a lot of space. It makes a 1lb loaf which is just the right amount for a small household, and the instructions were easy to follow. There are 5 programmes, including ‘fast bake’ and a there’s a handy viewing window so you can monitor the baking.

My ex-MIL was happy with the bread maker and produced two perfectly baked loaves. However, due to her severely arthritic fingers, she found the buttons difficult to use.  I think perhaps one of the other bread makers might have been more suitable for her limited dexterity, and I would recommend having a good look at the different models if you are considering buying one for an older person.

Well done to Morphy Richards for coming up with this innovative range of products and for supporting such a fantastic charity.

When we opened the newspapers at Morphy HQ, we got a wonderful surprise yesterday, our Never Loses Suction (NLS) Vacuum Cleaner was in first place in The Independent’s ’10 Best… Vacuum Cleaners’ feature. Here’s what the paper said about the machine:

“The Morphy Richards Never Loses Suction lift away bagless upright vacuum cleaner does what it says on the tin – so much so that it’s almost embarrassing to see how much it collects from a few sweeps of the carpet. It’s easy to assemble and use and has great attachments.”

The Independent - 10 Best Vacuum Cleaners

About the Morphy Richards Never Loses Suction

Never Loses Suction* Cyclone Technology

The Never Loses Suction* cyclone technology ensures constant pick-up performance across all floors throughout your home, and for added peace of mind we include up to a 5 year guarantee**

* In accordance with independent laboratory testing to IEC standard 60312-1: 2010. Machine must be maintained as instructed in the user guide.

** 2 year guarantee as standard, 5 year upon registration with Morphy Richards

Lift Away Detachable Canister

The Lift Away canister gives you the flexibility to clean anywhere. Simply release the handle, unclip the canister, add your attachment and away you go – powerful, portable cleaning in three easy steps! It’s perfect for awkward areas, like stairs and upholstery.

Washable HEPA 13 Filtration

HEPA 13 filtration means that 99.95% of all dust and dirt molecules are trapped in the filter making it ideal for allergy sufferers.

One Touch Bin Empty

By the simple press of a button the base of the canister is released and all the dust, hair and dirt falls out and can be easily dispensed of. Great for allergy sufferers.

Swivel Steering

The pivoting floorhead makes it really easy to manoeuvre the upright vacuum cleaner around the contours of your home. It’s the fastest way to get the deepest clean – even around corners and under furniture.

Full Height Stair Cleaning

In the Lift Away mode it is possible to vacuum from the bottom to the top of a standard set of stairs without the need to change plugs.

Clarity Floorhead

The window in the floorhead allows the user to view the brush bar turning and detect blockages. There is also a light on the model that will change colour if a blockage occurs in the floorhead.

Suitable for all floor types

This vacuum cleaner allows you to move from carpet to hard floor at the touch of a switch.

For more information about the Morphy Richards Never Loses Suction vacuum cleaner, visit the Morphy website.

Read here about why the lovely Pippa of A Mother’s Ramblings loves to flick through cook books. Here she tests out a recipe from Morphy Richards’ Ultimate Slow Cooker Cook Book. Check out the original post here.

A Menu For A Dinner Party I Am Never Going To Have

Reading cooking books is great fun and I do it quite a lot. Recently Daddy suggested that when I was clearing out a lot of books from the book shelf I might consider clearing out some of my cooking books. The evil stare I gave him made him realise I was not parting with them for anybody! When I read cookbooks I come up with Menus for dinner parties I am never going to have and it is a bit of fun to work out what the main course is and to work out how I would make the meal, who I would invite and if it was Come Dine With Me what the sarcastic voice over would say about me.

The lovely people at Morphy Richards saw my post on how much I love my slow cooker(and how I had discovered that you can make Jacket Potatoes in a slow cookera revelation of epic proportions in this house) and so they sent me out The Ultimate Slow Cooker Cookbook. Which was handy as out of all the cook books I own, I don’t have a slow cooker cookbook! I took the book to bed with me and read all the different recipes and was starting to come up with some great plans for a dinner party that I would never host when I saw the Beef with Black Peppers in Black Bean Sauce recipe. I love this dish and that I was going to make it.

Chinese Beef and Green Peppers in Black Bean Sauce done in my Slower Cooker.

I teamed it with rice noodles (we can’t eat egg noodles seeing as how Daddy is now allergic to egg as well as being a Coeliac) and some home fried Prawn Crackers and it was delicious. So if anyone wants to come round for an imaginary dinner party now you know what your main course is going to be.

I was sent a cookbook by Morphy Richards, I didn’t ask for it and they hoped I would like it. I did.

This month we’ve asked our Innovators to call on their mums, dads, grandparents and friends to test out products from our new Age UK range. Here, Michelle from Mummy from the Heart tells us what her mum thought of the Morphy Richards Flavour Savour slow cooker. Click here to see the original post.

Morphy Richards made my Mum a very happy lady just before Christmas as they sent her a 4.5 litre Flavour Savour digital slow cooker to try out and report back on. Mum is not much of a writer so she has asked me to write up her thoughts and I was also lucky enough to get a go with the slow cooker and to try a couple of meals cooked in it.

For ages both my Mum and I have wanted a slow cooker, so this was the perfect opportunity for us to try out a few recipes. The Flavour Savour is a really nice model as it has 3 functions: quick brown to seal your meat, fast stew to cook for between 1 hour 30 mins and 1 hour 45 mins and traditional slow cooking for between 4 hours and 11 hours.

Firstly Mum used the fast stew function to make a spicy sausage casserole. Firstly she used the brown function to brown off the sausages and drained off any excess fat.  Then all the other food got put into the same pot and the fluid put into the cooker  as well and it was then left to cook for 1 hour 45 minutes.  Once cooking finishes the cooker automatically goes into keep warm mode and holds the food at a constant temperature for up to 2 hours.

Browning the sausages

At the start of the cooking process

Sadly she forgot to take a photo of the finished meal but it was very good I am told!

Plus Points for the Flavour Savour Slow Cooker

• Large steel cooking pan which is lightweight and easy to carry due to the handles.  It can also be used on a gas or electric cooker hob.
• Stay cool handles on the pan and lid. The lid is also glass so you can see how your meal is cooking.
• Simple digital display settings.
• Cord storage in the base for smart storage.  You can also store the base in the cooking pan if you wish.
• It has  stylish exterior and does not look out of place left out on the work surface.
• Versatile that it can be used for fast or slow cooking.
• Excellent browning function for meat and onions, keeping down mess and minimising the pans used.
• Dish and lid are dishwashable and came clean very easily.
• Easy to understand and follow instructions

I asked Mum the question we all want to know, what could be better or where was the flavour savour slow cooker not up to scratch and I have to be honest she could not fault it and could give me no reason why it was not an excellent buy.  The only comment she had was to shop around and find a good price as that would make it even better!

Then when I was down at Mum and Dads just after Christmas we tried out the slow cooker function and had a beef and tomato casserole A few more pictures for you:

Yet again we forgot to take a photo when the stew was finished and we had to take a photo of the last dregs once we had all eaten.  Do you get the feeling that we all like our food?

I have to say that the flavour savour makes a superb meal and with the very minimum of fuss.  I was really pleased, as was Mum who give it a 5/5.

The 4.5 litre Flavour savour retails for £89.99 and the larger 6.5 litre model is £99.99.  I have to say that the 4.5 litre easily made enough food for 6 adults to eat a good portion. You can check out the full specification on the Morphy Richards website or head over to their blog Home of the Houseproud for some super recipe ideas and great deals.

Morphy Richards have teamed up with Age UK to put together a portfolio of products that are suited to the older generation.  Making it easier for them to perform everyday functions that younger people take for granted.  Whilst my Mum is officially an OAP she is in fact a very fit and active woman.  However I am pretty sure that if my Nan, at 84 tried to use the flavour savour she might find the pan too large and too heavy for just her living alone. The super thing about this range is that Morphy Richards are making a donation to Age UK for every item sold.  I can heartily recommend the Accents One Cup water boiler that I trialed a few months back and then gave to my Nan.  I saw her just after Christmas and she told me it was a godsend at 4am when she can not sleep and wants a quick cuppa!

Many thanks to Janelle, who has been a superb contact over the last year whilst I have been aMorphy Richards House Proud Innovator.  I am enjoying working with such a great brand.

Disclosure:  This is a review post.

Here at Morphy Richards, we’re very proud that our Accents kettle and toaster range is the bestselling set in the UK and we regularly receive great reviews and comments from our wonderful customers!

As a company that was born and bred in Yorkshire, we’re delighted to bring you news that we’ve teamed up with the guys at Yorkshire Tea to giveaway 50 Morphy Richards Accents kettles in red on their Facebook page between now and 8^th February 2011.

The competition is to promote their tea bags that have been made specifically for people living in hard water areas – hard water doesn’t just affect the kettle, it also affects the taste of the tea! Each of the winners will each receive a year’s supply of the tea bags with 100 runners-up bagging themselves an Oust sachet pack to help them combat limescale build up in their kettles (the runners up will also get a year’s supply of tea).

For a chance of winning one of these great prizes, simply upload a picture of yourself with your kettle on the Yorkshire Tea Facebook page – all winners will be selected at random.

Good luck!