Will you use your slow cooker over xmas?

[EachandEveryone]

Im wondering if there’s something i can cook to save oven space to put in on xmas eve maybe? Its so last minute and im working until tomorrow. I havent had it long so not really that confident. A ham, maybe?

Xmas pud : Sit the basin inside the slow cooker ( I put mine on an upturned saucer) Boil the kettle and pour water around the pudding until it comes halfway up. Place the slow-cooker lid on top; it needs to be fully closed, with no gaps. Leave on high for 4 hours.

How does one steam a premade Christmas pudding in the instant pot?!

I've bought one for DP and we don't have a microwave. Can't be arsed faffing around steaming it on the hob if there's an alternative, and he's working so no use...

Ooo crosspost. Will this work for one in a plastic basin, or will that be a melted nightmare?

Red cabbage (Delia recipe) so apple, onion, spices and wine vinegar

Ham on the 24th (again Delia so English mustard, cloves, brown sugar)

Placemarking for Christmas pudding done in a slow cooker instructions - literally have never thought of that before, genius idea!!

So if I do gammon before I go to bed will that work or is it best to start it in the morning?

Yes for mulled wine. Set on low and it keeps it at the perfect temperature

Doing our small turkey crown on Christmas Eve in the slow cooker - 6 hours on low and then 30 mins in the oven after to crisp up the skin and give it a bit of colour.
Also putting gammon in ours on Christmas morning - on high for 4 hours!

@User56770987

Ham with some honey, wholegrain mustard and about 150ml water. On all day Christmas.

Water? What sacrilege is this? Cider, honey and HG mustard here.

Only for the Xmas pudding, it will sit in the utility room out of the way.

@CommunistLegoBloc

How does one steam a premade Christmas pudding in the instant pot?!

I've bought one for DP and we don't have a microwave. Can't be arsed faffing around steaming it on the hob if there's an alternative, and he's working so no use...

I put it in a foil sling and stick it in on high first thing. I cook it in there too back in November, takes about 12 hours to cook and about 5 hours to heat but it doesn’t overcook so I just forget about it. I’m on nights on Xmas eve so will put it in when I get home and then we’ll eat it at about 6pm.

I'll be putting the pork in (remove the crackling first to do in the oven). I'll put it on overnight and keep hot with foil and towels so I can then put the Christmas pudding in. That way I've got more oven space for the duck, roasties and Yorkshire's

I always do the ham in it. Overnight Xmas eve then I glaze and oven it in the morning .

One less thing to worry about then. Usually works well.

Yep the chicken, our oven is a bit crap and DH is worrying about it so wants to do it in the slow cooker.

If he'd mentioned this to me before I would have tried harder to get goose fat or lard at the supermarket for the potatoes! Oh well.

Great thread - thank you!

I made my stock for the gravy in it last week (which has now been frozen). I usually do the ham in it (before finishing in the oven) but we aren't bothering this year as only two of us. I had planned to do a red cabbage, port and pear recipe I saw online but again no point with only two of us as my DH doesn't like red cabbage.

I'll be doing a turkey leg in it for me and DD. Salivating just thinking about it.

Pudding on Christmas Day and Gammon on Boxing Day.

Oh I wasn’t even going to buy a pudding.....

Slow cooker novice here.....

I've done a ham in it recently and the kids said it was a bit dry. Any suggestions to make it moist?

Turkey crown in mine in high around 7am. Done by 2pm lovely

Im going to try the red cabbage