I love my Slow Cooker!

[davethesailor]

I use my slow cooker all the time. It's great for making healthy soups, currys, stews, chillis and much, much more.

What does it look like I hear you ask?



Like this!

I've currently got a chicken curry cooking away which will be ready for this evening. It will taste lovely and the meat will be lovely and tender.

Does anyone else share my love affair of the Slow Cooker?

[Pip Madeley]

It's great for making healthy soups

*drool*

currys

*drooooool*

stews

*drooooooooooool*

chillis

*drooooooooooooooooool*

It will taste lovely and the meat will be lovely and tender.

*drowns in own drool*

[davethesailor]

Am I making you moist Pip?

Dave x

[Pip Madeley]

You always do Dave.

[Wayne]

I've got some meat for Dave if he wants it.


(not sure about the cooker bit, though)

[Paul Monk]

Wahey! Jody will love you even more than she does already Dave. She's a slow cooker fan and uses it all the time. Its great on the days when we are both at work. Jody can set it up before she leaves and we have a hot meal ready when we get in. And you can do more than just stews as well. We cooked a whole chicken in ours which was quite nice.
And because the meat is cooked very slowly its very very tender which is great. We regularly make curries, casseroles, chilli con carne in ours.

Got any good meal ideas, Dave?

[Pip Madeley]

[Wayne]

Weren't they called 'Pressure Cookers' in the old days?

I prefer fast cookers myself:



Much better! They even look like little tellys!

[Jon Masters]

Weren't they called 'Pressure Cookers' in the old days?

Different thing entirely - those had sealable lids and worked on the hob. Slow cookers are like ceramic casserole dishes inside a casing which has an electric heating element linked to a thermostat. The idea is that it keeps a low level of heat for a long time - hence the name. Its great fro cheap cuts of meat which would be tough and chewy otherwise.

In winter ours stays out almost permanemtly for casseroles, curries and soups etc. I think beef in red wine sauce is best, especially if its cooked one day and then reheated on the next.

[Wayne]

Ah! I learn again from Mr.Masters!
Thanks Teach!

[Pip Madeley]

If we're talking about slow cookers, have you met my sister?

[Wayne]

If we're talking about slow cookers, have you met my sister?

Do you want the sexual innuendo answer?

No, maybe not.

[Pip Madeley]

Do you want the back of my hand?

[SiHart]

I fell out of love with mine. I don't know why, because it's brilliant- the one I got especially so, because it's a separate saucepan that you can put on the hob if you need to, to start things off nicely, then leave on the slow cooker for as long as necessary.
I think, maybe, we'll give it another go in the autumn, when it's casserole season again, because when i did use it, the results were always good. I just forget it's there at the back of the cupboard.

Si xx

[Si Hunt]

Yes I lost the knack too. I've done some lovely ones in the past but none I've done since ever seem quite the same. It all goes a bit tasteless, plus it's a wretch to clean and freezing slow cooker meals always SEEMS like a good idea, but they look gross when you get them out again.

Si.

[Paul Monk]

plus it's a wretch to clean

All the new ones have pots you can take out and put in the dishwasher!

[Si Hunt]

We don't have a dishwasher! By the time we'd loaded it and put it on and taken everything out again, I could have done it myself!

Si.

[Dave Tudor]

I don't have a slow cooker, but I do love my George Foreman.

[Dirk Gently]

It takes all sorts!

[Pip Madeley]

Turned out nice again!

[davethesailor]

Wahey! Jody will love you even more than she does already Dave. She's a slow cooker fan and uses it all the time. Its great on the days when we are both at work. Jody can set it up before she leaves and we have a hot meal ready when we get in. And you can do more than just stews as well. We cooked a whole chicken in ours which was quite nice.
And because the meat is cooked very slowly its very very tender which is great. We regularly make curries, casseroles, chilli con carne in ours.

Got any good meal ideas, Dave?

Hi Paul,

My favourite thing to cook is a Scoth Broth. It involves getting some mutton which is quite difficult to buy nowadays. I've found it though in my local Halal butchers. Anyway, the ingredients are,

A flank/shank of mutton (or whichever cut you can get will do)
Broth mix. ( Normally you have to soak it over night in water)
1 Leek
Carrots
Onion
Swede
Beef Oxo cubes
water

Put the meat in first.
Add the broth mix
Chop all the vegetable and add
Make up some stock with the oxo cubes and add (enough to fill it up)
I also like to add some mixed herbs and chopped chilli.

Leave on low all day (8 - 10 hours)

Take out the joint of meat. Scrape all the meat off the bone and chuck the meat back in.

Taste and top of with more stock if needed.

I like to make it very thick with a lot of veg added.

Lovely!!!!