/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.14406798]

What is the fucking point of these things? I have never, NEVER ate something out of one of these hell machines that wasn't either mushy and disgusting, or dry and tough as a leather boot.

[Anonymous No.14406800]

>>14406798
I like making baked apples in them

[Anonymous No.14406807]

>>14406798
You can make a mediocre piece of meat a lot better by slow cooking it with sauce in there

[Anonymous No.14406815]

>>14406798
oatmeal or curry for me

[Anonymous No.14406835]

>>14406807
Why not just use a regular pan on a low heat?

[Anonymous No.14406839]

>>14406798
>What is the fucking point of these things?
it cooks thing slow

[Anonymous No.14406855]

>>14406798
OP is faggot who has never cooked.

[Anonymous No.14406860]

>>14406855
Yes I do fucking cook, instead of just throwing shit in a pot and overcooking it while I cheat on my husband or whatever housewives do.

[Anonymous No.14406861]

>>14406855
Doubs confirm. Faggot.

[Anonymous No.14406862]

>>14406798
Crockpots are amazin my dude. I live and breath by them.

[Anonymous No.14406870]

>>14406866
Why don't you go fuck yourself.

[Anonymous No.14406882]

>>14406835
Because some of us have to work during the day and this allows us to slow cook while we aren't at home

[Anonymous No.14406888]

>>14406835
It just works, faggot. You can also better serve directly out of one.

[Anonymous No.14406891]

>>14406798


>My retardness is so out of control and contagious that I manage to fuck up an automated cooking process just by being in the same room as it

Gf made pot roast in ours today. It was delicious and tender.

I think we can all agree here that the problem is you OP

[Anonymous No.14406910]

>>14406800
Like cinnamon apples? What do you put in there bro

[Anonymous No.14406930]

>>14406891
>I think we can all agree here that the problem is you OP
No it isn't because I never touch the damn things. I've just been served "food" out of them that was like prison food.

[Anonymous No.14406938]

>>14406910
cinnamon sugar flour butter apples nutmeg clove vanilla. basically apple pie filling just baked in the slow cooker for a long time. if you're ever in tennessee near a calhoun's that's where I first had cinnamon apples they have good food

[Anonymous No.14406957]

>>14406938
Damn that all looks good. I always get cinnamon apples anywhere that has 'em. Indeed seems like a great thing to make a large, homemade batch in the slow cooker.

[Anonymous No.14407010]

>>14406930
Prison food is nothing like what you get out of a crockpot, more like a low end corporate cafeteria, or high school.

[Anonymous No.14407028]

>>14406798
I make my chili in a crock pot. It's also easier for mashed potatoes since you don't have to stir it so much to prevent burning

[Anonymous No.14407053]

>>14406957
it's a great side for parties since it's set it and forget it. I like making bbq a lot you can do ribs and a pork butt at the same time. other stuff like baked mac and cheese can be prepped and refrigerated and then baked last minute and heating up green beans on the stove is easy. really easy to make a big spread

[Anonymous No.14407151]

>>14406798
It's perfect for stews.
Also pulled pork

[Anonymous No.14407155]

They're for shitty cooks (mostly women) who can just toss shit in them and come home after work to a ""homecooked"" meal for their husbands. Just edible matter to shove into their pie holes between episodes of Shark Tank or some shit.

[Anonymous No.14407167]

>>14407155
Shark Tank is based, pleb

[Anonymous No.14407175]

>>14407167
Idk about based but it's background TV kino i'll give it that

[Anonymous No.14408330]

>>14406798
it's often the fault of the cook not using one properly. people pretend you can just throw a rump roast and some fucking carrots in it and take it out after 8 hours and expect it to be good.
it's a controlled simmering pot, if you use it right, you can make good things with it.
i personally make beans, lentils, soups, briskets, and pork shoulders in mine.

[Anonymous No.14408337]

>>14406798
I use it to make calico beans. Crock pots are fantastic for comfort food.

[Anonymous No.14408457]

yay a slow cooker rage thread again!

[Anonymous No.14408529]

>>14406798
It's a high-volume slave pot for wagies who have no free time between sleep and work. Chuck it on when you leave, work, come home to a finished pit of sustainance, sleep.

It will be my next purchase

[Anonymous No.14408566]

>>14406835
Do you set a timer before going work and it cooks it for you? Doesn't it go bad?

[Anonymous No.14408577]

they're a lot easier to clean than an oven
I don't even know how to clean an oven, but it looks really uncomfortable

[Anonymous No.14408745]

>>14408577
You are not going to survive moving out of your parents' basement.

[Anonymous No.14408751]

>>14408529
ngl, that looks fucking great

[Anonymous No.14408755]

>>14406798
>I have never, NEVER ate something
It’s ‘eaten’. Are you a nigger? You write like a nigger.

[Anonymous No.14408758]

>>14408751
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groaty_pudding
Traditional black country slop me lad

[Anonymous No.14408882]

>>14406798
>What is the fucking point of these things?
lazy and easy way to make food.
you can cut up the ingredients the night before, then 5min before you go to work chuck them in and turn it on.
come home to 8 hours slow-cooked stew, curry, corned silverside or whatever you want.
all you have to do when you get home is microwave some rice and dish it up.

[Anonymous No.14408889]

Just toss everything in and make a stew. The meat turns so tender you can swallow it. Crock pots are really good for making healthy dinners. Just hope you don't have a power outage so you don't have to throw everything out.

[Anonymous No.14408921]

>>14406882
how are people not afraid to leave things like this running unsupervized? i once saw a bean stew recipe that had you putting it in a pot in the oven, setting it to some really low temp like 50 or 70 degrees celsius and leaving it overnight. i'd never have the guts to do something like that.

[Anonymous No.14408951]

>>14406835
Because you can safely and effortlessy place it in the cooker, turn it on, to to sleep, wake up, eat breakfast, go to work, work overtime, and come home to said meat.

You could do the same with a oven, but it takes some fidgetting due container moisture loss and indirect heating of a sealed pot.
And true:
You could do it with a pan, but there is always the risk that the lowest setting is too strong, so you eventually burn it after some 15-18 hours on the stove.

>>14408921
Because its not that bad if its a electric stove.
With a gas top or even a gas stove there is always the small risk of a failure leading to lack of ignition, and 10-15 hours of buildup sounds like a bad idea.

The entire point of the pots are:
1. They don't leak moisture, and it has pressure seals
2. There is no figdetting/experimenting to figure out how the heat transfer works
3. They operate on electricity, so its safe to leave them unattended

[Anonymous No.14409758]

>>14408921
Would you be afraid leaving your pc on unsupervized while downloading a large game? It's the same thing.

[Anonymous No.14409784]

>>14409758
No, it is not. You complete fucking idiot.

[Anonymous No.14409800]

>>14409784
you should kill yourself faggot

[Anonymous No.14409855]

>>14409784
>>14408921
the entire point of a crockpot is leaving it unattended, brainlet. There's very little difference between leaving it and any other electronic on in your house while you're gone.
For people who don't have some basic ass office job that allows them to work from home and who actually work for a living, being able to come home and not have to worry about cooking is beneficial. Most of the time it won't beat real cooking, but there are a lot of very good crockpot recipes out there and the time saving is the main draw.

[Anonymous No.14409860]

>>14406798
lazy white people

[Anonymous No.14409901]

The best use I've found with these is to use them in the summer as an oven replacement so your house doesn't get hotter than hell. I see it more as a seasonal item than an addition to the kitchen. Also, if you're away at work and something requires a cook time longer than you can stick around, it's a good option.

[Anonymous No.14409922]

>>14409855
>there are a lot of very good crockpot recipes
Post one.

[Anonymous No.14409928]

>>14406798
>he doesn't cook his ribs in there for 8 hours slathered in homemade bbq sauce
lol get outta here junior