Oven's died! Can I cook a saddle of lamb in the slow cooker?

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It's got no bone in it...it's prosciutto wrapped with some sort of cranberry stuffing inside.

We're in Australia so it's Boxing day morning here...I was going to shove it in the oven for dinner this evening but now the oven's died after it's gallant efforts yesterday...

What should I do? Just shove it in the slow cooker? We've got a sort of mini plug in electric oven that could do the veg but it's not big enough for meat too....

can you unplug and plug it back in? or double check the front panel mine had a setting called "sabbath mode" the thing turns itself off for a whole week or something unfathomable.
i would think you could do it in a slow cooker but of course it would take more time and possibly not be golden (unless you take a blow torch to the top at the end).

I don't see why not.

If you've still got at hob I'd try and brown it first.

At the end of the day it's just meat....which can be slow cooked.

Thanks both! How would I brown it? Just heat up a heavy pan with a bit of oil and pop it in? How long for?

We always cook our lamb joints in the slow cooker, best way to do it!

Fall Cannot believe a cooker engineer or designer or whatever they're called would include something called "Sabbath Mode" ...how ridiculous!

Sunny Thanks...I was worried because there's no bone in it...will that make a difference?

Brown it on all sides in a frying pan. Quarter two onions, two sliced cloves of garlic a few sprigs of rosemary and a few sprigs of time and put them in the slow cooker. Brown the lamb and sit it on top of the vegetables. Pour over approx 400ML stock and 200ML red wine. Season and cook on high for four hours or low for eight.

Take the lam out, rest it for approx twenty minutes. Meanwhile drain the liquid into a pan discard the veg, and reduce slightly until it thickens. If it’s too watery you can add a bit of cornflour...

And voila.

Sabbath mode is for religious reasons. Observant Jews do not do any work cooking on the Sabbath, they prepare food in advance cook it slowly.

including cooking on the Sabbath

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Fall Cannot believe a cooker engineer or designer or whatever they're called would include something called "Sabbath Mode" ...how ridiculous!

Not ridiculous for observant Jews!

that is the actual name, and needless to say it was not something i was familiar with until i accidently activated it while setting the timer/clock.

Maybe tie it together with string just to keep it together but it will be lovely and tender.
We usually brown it in a frying pan and then slow cook with red wine, red onion, French mustard, rosemary and some gravy and it’s absolutely delicious. X

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Brown it on all sides in a frying pan. Quarter two onions, two sliced cloves of garlic a few sprigs of rosemary and a few sprigs of time and put them in the slow cooker. Brown the lamb and sit it on top of the vegetables. Pour over approx 400ML stock and 200ML red wine. Season and cook on high for four hours or low for eight.

Take the lam out, rest it for approx twenty minutes. Meanwhile drain the liquid into a pan discard the veg, and reduce slightly until it thickens. If it’s too watery you can add a bit of cornflour...

And voila.

Yes this.

Alternatively if you have a hob, which it sounds as if you do you can just reduce the cooking jus in a saucepan if you don't want to thicken it with flour rather than trying to reduce in the slow cooker.

I'd also cook on high for 4 hours rather than low for 8 as lamb loin is very lean and tender anyway.

I’m sure there’s a thread in classics about a woman whose fridge turned to Judaism without warning.

If you are in Aus, haven't you got a barbecue? Much better way to cook such a fine cut.

We had slow cooked beef for Christmas dinner, cooked in stock and red wine. I'm sure lamb would work fine too. The stuffing might go mushy but you could just remove it.

I imagine whatever you do you've started cooking now anyway.

I get the Sabbath but to include it as a feature is weird! People can turn their own stoves off!

Roses we do but it's shit and needs cleaning.

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Fall Cannot believe a cooker engineer or designer or whatever they're called would include something called "Sabbath Mode" ...how ridiculous!

I find this weird too

The point about Jewish people, why a sabbath mode still? SUrley one could just..not turn on the cooker over the Sabbath?!

Can imagine myself getting stressed at 'broken' coker to find out something like this

I voted YABU against the fact you posted this on AIBU. But I've learned some lovely ideas on this thread so I wish I could take it back!