/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Fuck off fag

>slowcooker for stews
literally why? stews take barely any time to prep and make, minimal supervision and last for days even if you're feeding a family and much more if you're a single person storing the leftovers.

>>11460477
I used to like stews but they've become really reddit and gay, like beards and bacon and several other things.

>>11460765
>being so much of a soy drone that reddit makes you hate timeless classics

>>11460787
It's /ck/ everybody here hates food and cooking.

>>11460748
What's wrong with a slowcooker for a stew? What's the other way anon should be making it?

>ITT, 4 Chan gets triggered by stews
I spend literally zero time on Reddit, so how the fuck am I supposed to know what trend those faggots are following?
So, nobody knows how to make a decent stew then...
Got it.

>>11460477
>step one, throw the slow cooker in the fucking trash

>>11460812
browning is essential for getting the proper depth in a stew. get a heavy enameled pot. do all the browning in the pot and leave it on low-medium low or do the long stew in the oven

>>11460817
>no time on reddit
>reddit non-confrontational passive aggressive sass "got it"
You have to go back

>>11460833
I'll admit, I've never made a stew, but I feel like it's the kind of dish the slow cooker was invented for. I'm sure there's some suggestions OP could get about making a stew in a slow cooker rather than "you need to cook for two hours under supervision to make a simple dish or you're scum"

>>11460838
I really don't spend any time on Reddit, but I got nothing to prove and really don't care.
I'll admit I don't spend much time on /ck/, but goddamn I didn't realize you guys are a bunch of elitist faggots who are triggered by simple questions about cooking.
You guys are worse than /b/fags.

>>11460864
A slow cooker works yes but a Dutch oven is really all you need

>>11460866
you have to go back

>>11460477
3 pound chuck roast
1 teaspoon Kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper
1 yellow onion chopped
4 carrots cut into 2 inch chunks
4 Yukon potatoes chopped
4 cups beef broth
1/4 cup tomato paste
1 bay leaf
1 teaspoon thyme
4 cloves garlic minced
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
2 tablespoons butter unsalted
2 tablespoons flour

1.Season the beef with half the salt and all the pepper.
2.Add to the skillet and brown on each side
3.Remove the beef from the pan and add in the onions.
4.Cook the onions for 3 minutes, stir then cook another 3 minutes.
5.Into the slow cooker add the onions, carrots, potatoes, broth, second half of the salt, tomato paste, bay leaf, thyme, garlic and Worcestershire sauce.
6.Cut the beef into 2-3 inch chunks and add it to the slow cooker.
7.Stir all the ingredients until well mixed and cook on low for 7 hours.
8.In a small bowl mix the butter and flour and add it to the slow cooker and stir.
9.Cook an additional hour or until thickened with lid off

>>11460878
>>11460876
>>11460833

Thanks for being helpful, anons. I'll give it a go.

>>11460877
Go to bed, son. You're up way past your bedtime.

>>11460866
Nothing elitist about it, it's just the typical small dick syndrome morons around here. They hate everything that's not burgers, steaks or tacos.

Made duck confit garbure
Oven light washes it out a bit..

>>11460817
>Complains no one here knows how to make a decent stew
>Admits in OP he failed to make a stew, and wouldn't elaborate how
Fuck off

>>11460891
I'm also going to point out that soup is better in a slow cooker than stew. Stew needs to be thickened and that can be a pain to do in a slow cooker. That said I love slow cookers for taco meats.

Bowl pic.

>>11460876
>Dutch oven
How will farting under the covers while I cover my girlfriend's head improve my stew?

>>11460920
>>11460911

Looks good, Anons. Nice on a cold day, I'm sure.

>>11460915
Yeah, I noticed that...
End result of the stew I tried to make was a watery mess. I added too much liquid too soon and tried to compensate with corn starch.
It just wound up tasting like laundry water and I threw it out.
Worst thing I've ever made in my adult life...

>>11460477
I make stews a bit but I have no recipes.
I'll just boil some vegetables in a stock beef/chicken/vegetable/fish depending on what meat I'm using, starting with the longest cooking ones (potato, carrots etc).
Brown the meat in a pan with some onion and spices (normally just garlic and butter, maybe ginger). Take off the heat and add more spices (Chilli cinnamon rosemary etc) stir up get a good coating and let sit 5mins.
Add to the vegetables and broth, simmer down a bit.
Maybe add milk/cream/butter/cheese depending on the stew otherwise maybe a little cornflour dissolved in cold water.
Settle down to simmer with lid on and go play a computer game for a while
Check on pot after a half hour to taste and adjust, add S&P
Play another game
Serve with garnish(coriander, parsley, sour cream, cheese) and bread and butter

>>11460817
I know that feel bro. I am an ancientfag that never browses there but apparently I have their exact personality. Zoomers need to get gassed.

Gumbo counts as a stew, right?

>>11460878
>4.Cook the onions for 3 minutes, stir then cook another 3 minutes.
>Instructions on how to cook onions

Lol

Some general improvements for stew:

>Cut the meat first and sear in batches. More surface area means more browning which is more flavor.

>Dig a well in the middle and cook the tomato paste out a little. Sometimes there is a bitter/metallic taste.

>Melt the butter and add the flour in a medium pan. You need to cook the roux until you cant smell (or taste) the flour

>Reminder that stew almost always tastes betted the next day - the flavor intensifies and matures greatly

Ive also really never used a slow cooker... Regular dutch oven is my go to with pressure cooker (with minor adjustments to recipe) as backup

>>11460866
It's not that you're reddit, but you do type like a faggot, so fuck off

>>11460864
>lazy fucks that cant even keep a pot simmering while watching tv after browning some meat for 5 seconds so they spend 40+ on a retarded that makes a bunch of mediocre dishes
kek

Based and Stewpilled

>>11460833
>browning is essential for getting the proper depth in a stew.

This isn't true IMO. The impact of browning vs not browning is insignificant in comparison to the flavor from the broth base, seasoning, and other additions like wine/beer/whatever. Browning will however result in less tender meat in a stew or pot roast. My preference nowadays is to not brown.

>>11460833
I googled my opinion to check if it was right, but completely blanked what I just read, so I may be wrong, but I thought that slow cookers were better insulated cos of the air gap between the inner casing and outer, and more energy efficient cos internal heating element? Admittedly tho you'd either gotta waste a pan browning and deglaze, or fucking try browning in a slow cooker for the banter.

>>11460477
i made Jamaican oxtail stew and it came out tasting like raw meat and kind of bloody, others liked it though

>>11462906
It was acidic then it was probably leaching iron from you uncoated cast iron pot, making it taste like blood.

>>11462938
i did clean the meat with lime in before hand

>>11460833
I got a slow cooker that you can take out and put on the stovetop to brown in. It's great. Brown the meat in there and then add the rest of the stuff and leave it until later

>>11461879
They aren't mutually exclusive.