/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11224333
Learn to cook, my man. Crockpots are for haggard soccer moms who feed their cuck husband and 4 austistic mongoloid children plates of brown slop every night because she doesn't care and she regrets ever getting knocked up and marrying you and she resents your retard kids for ruining her figure and giving her a blown out belly buttom and grand canyon stretch marks on her belly, thighs, and tits.

>>11224367
What a dumb thing to say. Crock pots are the shit.

>>11224333
Return it and buy an instant pot. It does the same thing, in less time, and extremely useful other things that crock pots cannot do.

>>11224371
Yeah, if you like eating various shades of brown mush.

You sound like a working class chump. I bet you thought it would be a great "investment", how you would wake up to a warm, healthy breakfast to start off your long day. Maybe, you even had a couple thoughts about all the other nifty little uses you could find for the thing, how it would help you cook healthier meals in general, shed a couple pounds off the old gut, boost your confidence around work and with the ladies. Yeah, maybe that slow cooker would start your life cooking again, wouldn't it? I can see your strained hands holding the box and reading through it carefully at the store. A little bit pricey, but you're the type of guy who thinks everything is more than you can spend, aren't you. And look what happened to you. Look what the slow cooker did to you. Fucked you over, and made you clean it like a useless bitch. You don't even fucking like oatmeal. Piece of shit, you've been repeating those three words your whole life, haven't you. Yeah, how was work after that piece of shit fucked you over? I bet it was on your mind the whole day, you probably didn't say shit to nobody. Can't be telling people about your mistakes. How your little fix yourself plan, failed you. Don't want people to start thinking you're the failure. You're the piece of shit, all along. You don't want that do you? You don't want to be the piece of shit everybody secretly whispers about, do you? Was your father a piece of shit like you? I bet he never had a slow cooker. He had a woman, a house, a damn good job. I bet it's slow cooking you the fuck alive, isn't it. Comparing yourself to him. How one day when all the steam runs our of your life, you'll discover how you're nothing more than burnt shit to be scraped off and thrown in the trash.

>>11224333
I'm making a pork shoulder in mine right now
pot roast
mac and cheese
>>11224388
This anon is an idiot/

>>11224388
I'm sorry your mom couldn't cook for shit.

>>11224413
She can which is why she doesn't own a crock pot.

>>11224367
I'm an average home cook, I can make basic stuff but I'm a pretty lazy, hence the slow cooker. When autumn comes and it starts getting chillier pots and stews are a nice meal. But I guess you're right, you could make these with just a skillet and a cast iron pot.

>>11224385
I looked around a bit and it looks like we don't have those things available in my country.

>>11224371
>>11224407
I'm thinking game (hares, moose, grouse). How's fish, does it get overcooked easily? Wouldn't want it to dissolve entirely due to long cooking times. I rarely cook beef, what are some good cuts to use in slow cooking?

>>11224405
I guess I was asking for it, lol

>>11224385
this desu, an instant pot can function as a slow cooker and a pressure cooker, as well as a few other miscellaneous things. It's a pretty versatile tool.

>>11224537
>I looked around a bit and it looks like we don't have those things available in my country.

non americans rekt once again

No. They are not useless. They are good for making sub-par stews.

I use one to keep side dishes warm at large dinners. Mostly mashed potatoes.

Its intended purpose just makes some same tasting slop. Maybe its good for applesauce but I wouldn't want a gallon of it.

I use mine to caramelize a lot of onions at once.

>>11224367
You need to stop being a dick.

>>11224367
trying too hard buddy

Any meat that takes forever to break down is good in a crockpot. It’s great for making lazy pulled pork. For when you can’t be bothered with smoking meats.

>>11224333
Both my wife and I work like hell. Thank goodness for the crockpot. We shop at walmart. No shame there. I just can’t be home to cook all the time. I’m out plumbing and my hours will never be regular.

I had plenty of slow cooker meals I enjoyed in my youth, but whenI finally move out of my parents attic I expect to get a dutch oven as a housewarming gift from a family friend. I think that's probably better for the same meals, though I'm not sure.

>>11224367
I used one today to make an amazing pork loin rost. I made turmeric rice and gravy from the roast drippings and some chicken stock along with rose mary roast carrots and onion.
you're just bad at stuff n shit.

>>11224405
Thank you.

>>11224388
You say that like it's a bad thing, Anon.

I make a really good brown mush.
My brown mush brings all the boys to the yard.

>>11224333
Slow cookers are nice because I'm less concerned about nuking my house down slow roasting something in one vs. having the oven go all day.

>>11224333
I like making roasts, pulled pork, etc in them.

>>11224367
Are you describing what your parents are going through, anonkun?

>>11224333
idk, i prefer to make my stew hot and fast

It's great for chili and other stews.

Depends on your lifestyle.

Prepare ingredients in the evening. Toss into crockpot in the morning before leaving for work. Return to ready hot dinner.

Just search up slow cooker lamb roast recipe's or pork roast ect ect

You can make really tasty curries and stuff like that really easy

>>11224333
No, they're fantastic especially if you're lazy. I make all kinds of stuff in mine; just spend thirty minutes in the morning and you come back home with dinner done.

>>11224385
>>11224562
Instant Pot is useful but an overpriced meme. A crockpot alone is still useful

>>11224333
It gets a bad rep because retards making minimal effort think a slow cooker will make up for it. If you prep everything the same way you would using an oven itll turn out fine, if you just drop a chuck roast and a halved onion in with a cup of water it will suck ass

>>11227762
This. All a slow cooker does is allow you to safely leave something cooking with low energy cost. It's not magic.

>>11227451
You'll have it hot and fast and with meat so tough you won't be able to chew it, unless you pick a crap kind like chicken.

Some things need to stew for a time. And you can either watch your pot of your stew for 1-2 hours, stirring, making sure it doesn't overboil, refilling water that evaporated, making sure nothing sticks to the bottom and burns, or just dump the same ingredients into a crock pot, leave it for 8 hours and come to a ready stew of about the same quality, possibly a bit better.

>>11224367
Got something you wanna get off your chest, Anon?

>>11227809
Yeah. It won't produce better results that *properly* stewing stuff, but it's much harder to fuck it up. Less effort in cooking, although preparation is about the same.

>>11224333
If I was your bf I'd pump you full of air for wasting my money on a crock pot

>>11227894
You mean money your parents gave you?

'Cause if you were working, you'd appreciate the convenience a crock pot gives you.

>>11227865
I don't eat meat. Sometimes there's homemade seitan in my stew.

>>11224333

>Are crock pots/slow cookers a useless tool?

Not if you are a productive member of society. Being able to throw a bunch of stuff in there in the morning, and come home from class/work to a good and healthy meal is pretty great. If you're a neat like most of the people ITT apparently are, that won't be of much benefit.

> Any recipes you recommend?
Just go to the website below and start clicking around. You can find tons of different good recipes. Recently I've made beef stroganoff and carnitas, both turned out great.

https://www.thewholesomedish.com/crock-pot-beef-stroganoff/
https://www.recipetineats.com/pork-carnitas-mexican-slow-cooker-pulled-pork/


https://www.allrecipes.com/recipes/253/everyday-cooking/slow-cooker/

>>11227742
Imagine being poor, lmao

>>11224333
Just dont do chicken in a crock pot. Otherwise its fine for if you need to cook and not moniter your food or your oven cant be trusted to hold a lower tempature steadily.

>>11224333
Time is money.

>>11227991
>lmao
Imagine being a Facebook refugee.
Time for you to fuck off.

>>11227898
The money I earned by beating up nerds like you and fucking their gfs you virgin

>>11228183
Not him but I usually put lmao cause it pisses off faggots like you
Lmao

>>11229529
Fuck off

>>11224333
I love mine for beans, spaghetti sauce, also beef tips and gravy. I cook or sear all meat first before adding to crock pot.

>>11228181
time is fucking money i love my crock pot

gf throws shit like this in the crock mid day, both of us feast at 6 pm

thanks for the inforgraphic, i have a crock pot cookbook but that beef stroganoff looks gud

>>11228181

So only the first recipe in that list says to thaw before dumping into the slow cooker.

Are the rest of them dumped in still frozen?

Sounds ok, but stews get boring after a while. I think I would not use it that much. Even when I come home after work, I'd rather just make a stir fry or something, I am usually done when the rice is cooked anyway so it doesn't take much time and cooking is relaxing.

>>11224367
Dis nigga just went in

Crockbois btfo

>>11232181
I think they meant 'marinading'. You don't really need to thaw stuff before dumping it in the slow cooker, only if you need to cut it up or otherwise prepare.

>>11224367
Imagine being this mad and sad.

>>11228181
Word to god dis sum fucc nigga shyt lmao. Stay gettin ya recipes from beckies. Imma stay slammin they pussies cuz dats all they good for lmao

>>11228183
Lmao

>>11227922
Using meat replacement products such as seitan or quorn can work extremely well in a slow cooker.
You can recreate a 'slide-off-the-bone' chicken easily, and it really makes for a fine chilli.

>>11232323
But I still need to bloom stuff in something that gets hotter. Might as well do it in a stock pot and use that for the rest.

>>11227898
Sorry, that didn't happen. I was at work while you were beating the nerds in Fortnite from your basement.

>>11232294
I'm sorry but I don't read nigger, can someone translate?

Crockpot beef stew is based as fuck

I chop onions, celery, potatos, and some chuck beef and throw it in with beef broth and cook it on low while im at work. When i get back i'll make a thickening slurry out of flower and red wine and mix that in amd let it cook some more while im at class.