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Title: Slow Cooker
Post by: chriswg on November 30, 2010, 10:22 PM
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Title: Re: Slow Cooker
Post by: gazman1976 on December 01, 2010, 10:51 AM
Asda sell the same 1 for a tenner  ;D
Title: Re: Slow Cooker
Post by: peterandjen on December 01, 2010, 06:18 PM
I've only ever used a slow cooker once and managed to burn my curry. Since then it has been re-housed at the step daughters house where it will probably spend the rest of its days chatting up the other never used oddments we all have stashed away in easy to forget about places.
If its for cooking onions i reckon pressure cookers are the way to go.
Title: Re: Slow Cooker
Post by: Peripatetic Phil on December 01, 2010, 06:44 PM
I've only ever used a slow cooker once and managed to burn my curry.
How can you burn anything in a slow cooker ?!  (Unless you go away on holiday for a fortnight and expect it to be just ready when you return !).

** Phil.
Title: Re: Slow Cooker
Post by: peterandjen on December 01, 2010, 06:52 PM
Oh its easy, just add curry, put lid on, set on LOW and leave for two hours.
Was a Russel hobbs thing cost about fifty quid.
Title: Re: Slow Cooker
Post by: gazman1976 on December 01, 2010, 07:01 PM
im with phil on this one - i am shocked u managed to burn your curry in a slow cooker unless it was a fancy 1 and u had the temp too high - the 1 i have only has 2 settings low and high and i have never burnt anything in it - fantastic for cooking lamb
Title: Re: Slow Cooker
Post by: peterandjen on December 01, 2010, 07:13 PM
Yep burned, and i definately had it set on low.  It could have been me, my curry might have been too thick to begin with, maybe i never stirred it often enough.
Either way i burned me ruby murry and wasn't happy about it  :-\ .
Theres another thing i didn't like about it, in the destructions it tells you to stir often.
Well i thought the one of the main selling points of a slow cooker was the fact that you can put food in it and sod off out till its ready. Lets face it you can't, you would have to keep coming back from wherever you were out at, to come back in to stir your grub, just so you could go back out. Thats just too much fussing about for me. I mean they should just re-name em hokey-cokey cookers, that way you would know where you stand, or hop or whatever it is you do mid Hokey-cokey.
Just an oppinion of course!.  ;D
Title: Re: Slow Cooker
Post by: Peripatetic Phil on December 01, 2010, 07:34 PM
Well, I used to make yoghurt in ours (until 'er indoors broke it), and that never burnt, even overnight !  Maybe you paid too much for yours and it was too powerful as a result  ;D
Title: Re: Slow Cooker
Post by: PaulP on December 01, 2010, 07:59 PM
I use mine for cooking lamb, usually about 5 hours to get the lamb really tender.

Cheers,

Paul
Title: Re: Slow Cooker
Post by: Cindy_Jk on September 19, 2014, 09:02 PM
I registered here specially to find and discuss the cooking curry and beloved Indian food using my multi-cooker. It's a similar to slow cooker, but its better version )) I can fry, and steam, and make a stew in it.
Maybe someone already has same device. Let's share experience. Until now I'm using my mutli-cooker just for the simple food, but I'm open for experiments.
Title: Re: Slow Cooker
Post by: livo on September 20, 2014, 12:34 AM
I use mine for cooking lamb, usually about 5 hours to get the lamb really tender.

Cheers,

Paul

Are you using it in Slow-cooker mode?  In Pressure mode "Curry" on my model, I can produce fall apart lamb in under 1/2 an hour.  My cooker has 9 different mode settings and variable time under all of them barr slow-cooker which is pre-set to 8 hours and saut? which is up to the user to control manually.