/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.9988848]

Besides the time it takes, is there literally any downside to this beautiful bastard?

[Anonymous No.9988863]

>>9988848
I literally can't think of one OP

[Anonymous No.9988875]

>>9988848
Nope. Should be in every persons kitchen. especially poor people. The amount of tasty, nutritious, cheap food you can make with zero effort using one of these is insane.

[Anonymous No.9988961]

>>9988875
It is legit life changing. Meal prepping for workout is so much easier with it.

[Anonymous No.9988988]

>>9988848
Making a big pot of split pea soup today. Love my slow cooker.

[Anonymous No.9988989]

Any good /slow/ recipes to recommend, boyos?

this ones real simple but its a super-satisfying cold-weather meal and i tend to add some diced grilled hatch or poblano chiles to give it some extra flavor:

https://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-white-bean-amp-bacon-soup-recipes-from-the-kitchn-214866

[Anonymous No.9988999]

>>9988848
Love my slow cooker but being a poor student only have family sized hand me down. Committing to eating so much of the same is the only drawback for me. My stews are great but after 4 days you can get bored.

[Anonymous No.9989008]

>>9988999
Start freezing the leftovers.

[Anonymous No.9989009]

None

Best device for cheap meals and meal planning

[Anonymous No.9989010]

>>9989008
This. Do it all the time.

[Anonymous No.9989135]

>>9988999
>being a poor student

He might not have a freezer.

[Anonymous No.9989429]

>>9989135
Thankfully not that poor. Yet

[Anonymous No.9989440]

You can do everything you can do in it in an enameled dutch oven and more

[Anonymous No.9989466]

I got a crockpot not long ago but it turns out it's way too small for the first recipe I tried for it. I had a chicken chili recipe that called for a whole chicken breast, but if I'm downsizing it I'd use half of one? what should i do with the other half a breast?

[Anonymous No.9989482]

>>9989440
Can you pick up a dutch oven for 25 dollars at a Wal-Mart? And does it require a stove or does it magically provide its own heat?

[Anonymous No.9989495]

>>9989466
pound it thin, salt pepper, hot pan, lemon juice and butter, reduce to form sauce, enjoy

[Anonymous No.9989594]

It doesn't really cook potatoes to the stage where they get soft.

Everything else becomes too soft.

[Anonymous No.9991694]

There is no downside

[Anonymous No.9991736]

Takes a lot of counter space and storage space.

Can the same effect be achieved by putting a pot with a lid in an oven set to low? I did that for chicken cacciatore once.

[Anonymous No.9991751]

Instant pot pressure cook is much better and way faster

Hit up some green chile pork or some chicken noodle soup

[Anonymous No.9991767]

>>9991736
ovens would certainly use more power

[Anonymous No.9991847]

>>9991736
isn't the whole point that you can plug it in and leave it running and come back to it in the evening?
You wouldn't leave your oven unattended for 8 hours.

[Anonymous No.9991865]

I dont know any crock pot recipes. I have one but it just sits around. Apparently crock posts became popular in the US when women started working -- she could just put food in the pot in the morning and it would be ready for dinner. I dont have a wife but I also dont have any problem cooking food after work.

Seriously, any recipes for these things? I once tried making pork in it and it shrived and dried out.

[Anonymous No.9991917]

[Anonymous No.9991930]

>literally called a slow cooker
>buys one
>names being slow at cooking is a con

get the fuck off this board and dont EVER insult this appliance

[Anonymous No.9991940]

>>9991767
Unless you have a gas oven

[Anonymous No.9991984]

I have a rice cooker with a slow cooker function, but I've never used it.
What are the basic techniques?
What are some foods that can't be made in a slow cooker?
Every recipe just implies you can dump any amount of food and it'll cook all the way so long as you don't mind it being soggy and tender.

[Anonymous No.9992204]

>>9988848
all of the meals you eat are mush?

[Anonymous No.9992213]

>>9989482
...yes?

[Anonymous No.9992218]

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 scrapped off and thrown in the trash.

[Anonymous No.9992224]

sucks to clean but definitely shook up my cooking universe

[Anonymous No.9992327]

>>9992218

[Anonymous No.9992819]

>>9991930
>being this much of a dumb sperg

[Anonymous No.9992855]

>>9992218
"healthy" and "cooked for hours" dont usually sit well in the same sentence. You get easily digested pap with all the delicate molecules shredded into garage, but all the carbos and sugars intact.

I bet righteous fucks like you buy fresh food and then turn it into gut filling paste that leaves you malnourished to the point to catastrophic weight loss, then mistake this for healthy eating, all the while expounding your brilliance across the internet.

Eat dirt. Literally eat dirt. Low sugar fat free gmo free gluten free low carb keto vegan halal fucking paleo slow-cooked dirt.

[Anonymous No.9992880]

>>9988848
It takes up cupboard space and I already have a dutch oven I can use either on the stove or in the oven. Only thing it does I can't already do is set a timer.

[Anonymous No.9992888]

>>9991847
It may be because I don't have a gas oven, but I have no problem with sleeping or leaving home with the oven at 80C.

[Anonymous No.9992906]

>people are still responding seriously to this pasta after five years

[Anonymous No.9993268]

>>9988848
They over cook food if you're retarded and just chuck shit in and turn it on. I ate so many dry roasts growing up.

[Anonymous No.9993335]

>>9989466
Instead of using a breast, pick up tenderloins and substitute them instead. They'll generally be cheaper and you'll get more use out of a pack of them that way anyway.

[Anonymous No.9993348]

>>9988989
http://www.ayearofslowcooking.com/2008/12/crockpot-chicken-makhani-indian-butter.html
This has been my favorite for like 10 years. This was already my favorite thing to get at Indian restaurants and to be able to make it with so little effort in mass quantities has been wonderful. I make it even easier by just using dried cardamom spice instead of the pods. Then I ether eat it over rice or buy that nan bread from the grocery store that you just put in the oven for a couple mins. Works well for cooking for a date and is always a mega hit at work potlucks.

[Anonymous No.9993359]

>>9991865
My go-to is stew for busy nights. It's the most brain-dead recipe of all time. The stew meat is the most expensive part.

Take stew meat, potatoes, carrots, onion celery, and frozen peas, dump into slow cooker with a light layer of water. Add a beef bullion cube or two(depending on amount in the pot/size of pot) and leave it on high for 4-6 hours. Proportion it however you prefer it to be so. Try not to use too much water, just enough for everything to sit properly.


For good simple chilli, toss beans, diced tomato, various spices and if you want meat(we prefer shredded chicken) into the pot and leave it on high 4 hours.Make a package of Jiffy corn bread if you're lazy and throw that shit on top, then throw some cheese on that.

Crock-pot chilli is the easiest damn thing in the world to make.

[Anonymous No.9993366]

>>9991984
>Every recipe just implies you can dump any amount of food and it'll cook all the way so long as you don't mind it being soggy and tender.

This is pretty much true.
You probably couldn't make anything fried, though there are ways to do so it's just easier to make on an oven.

The only real downside is the long cooking time, but you can literally just leave it alone all day.

[Anonymous No.9994059]

>>9993359
Do you want mushy peas? You could just add them in at the end as they are already cooked before being frozen.

[Anonymous No.9994570]

>>9991751
Using one to make some lentil tortilla soup right now. Smells so good.

[Anonymous No.9994593]

Been using my crock pot for years. Huge fan.

[Anonymous No.9994597]

>>9988848
doesn't get hot enough for malliard reaction.

[Anonymous No.9994625]

amateur af

[Anonymous No.9994762]

>>9994570
recipe?

[Anonymous No.9994857]

>>9988989
>get a roast
>get desired veggies
>season roast with desired seasonings
>put in the cooker
>add a bit of water for moisture or broth
>let it sit

You can invent recipes and as long as you don't deviate into the twilight zone you'll probably be fine.

[Anonymous No.9994978]

>>9994762
https://peasandcrayons.com/2017/02/vegetarian-lentil-tortilla-soup.html

Ignore the blog bullshit at the beginning. It's delicious as hell though and makes a ton. Just finished two bowls.

[Anonymous No.9995094]

>>9994978
that looks tasty af. thank, anon. will give it a try this weekend.

[Anonymous No.9995321]

>takes up a ton of room
>anything it does can by done by other cookware
>produces watery, bland food


It's good if you're a fat redditor who doesn't know how to cook and wants to make a bunch of bulk garbage to eat over a few days, I guess

[Anonymous No.9995350]

>>9995321
>takes up a ton of room
lmao what kind of cubicle are you living in poorfag?

[Anonymous No.9995490]

>>9995321
Boy if there was only some way to make food taste better and less watery. Maybe learn how to cook?

The slow cooker can't so everything but it can do a lot with minimal effort. It's just a tool, much like yourself.

[Anonymous No.9995498]

>>9995350
560sq feet, my house payments are only $500 a month, so I have plenty of extra money to spend on good cookware and food :o)

[Anonymous No.9995504]

>>9995490
I do know how to cook, that's why I don't have to use a slow cooker. Did my post hit too close to home?

[Anonymous No.9995508]

They absolutely wreck egg noodles if you throw them in with everything else. Found that out while experimenting this week.

[Anonymous No.9995510]

>>9995498
But no space to put it in apparently.

[Anonymous No.9995512]

>>9995498
where do you live? $500 month for 560 square feet?

[Anonymous No.9995518]

>>9995512
Center of flyover territory, Wyoming

[Anonymous No.9995526]

>>9995518
fuck
i have a 1500 square foot home and it costs me $816/month in houston TX. and it ain't one of them shitty cracker box homes. it's brick all the way around on a 6000 square foot lot

[Anonymous No.9995530]

>>9995510
I've got room for a fridge, just not for reddit-tier cooking crutches. Especially not when I've already got cookware that can do anything slow cookers can

Stay mad and enjoy your salsa chicken

[Anonymous No.9995535]

>>9995526
All things considered that's really not bad, you done good anon

[Anonymous No.9995780]

>>9991940

A gas oven still uses more power lad.

[Anonymous No.9995870]

>>9995780
Source?

I doubt a thermostat and regulator use more power than an electric heating element

[Anonymous No.9995942]

>>9988848
The downside is the food will never be as good as meals prepared in conventional ways. They're convenient and easy to use, but let's not pretend that they're the best way of cooking food, as far as taste is concerned. They're not.

[Anonymous No.9995957]

>>9989482
You can get cheap dutch ovens, yes. As far as heat is concerned, what are you trying to imply? The slow cooker doesn't 'magically' generate it's own heat either. It requires a plug socket. And who doesn't have a stove, or an oven?