to wish i bought a slow cooker along time a go

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it has chance my life, i just chuck all the stuff in there before work and when i get home after doing homework and housework my tea is all cooked.

good innit?

i batch cook curry sauce, pasta sauces and chillis for freezing too

YANBU Slow cookers are amazing during the winter months mines on every day!! I need some summer time receipies for them though. I have such a small kitchen so one pot dinners suit me and my space down to the ground!!

Slow cookers are amazing.

Deemented has 3 IIRC

I heart my slow cooker it's so handy

We take ours camping with us, delicious warming stews!

I'm thinking about getting one for winter and return to work. Any recommendations of brands?

Hmm, I'm wondering about getting one...

But, but, but:

What do you put in before you go to work? It can't be meat, can it?
How long are most slow cooker recipes supposed to cook for?
Are there lots of one-pot dinner slow cooker recipes?

Good brand recommendations? And whilst wr are at it, can anyone please recommend a good bread maker?

I have two and love them.
They are amazing.
If my house was burning down I'd rescue them and the Kenwood Chef.

today i cooked a whole chicken today, took around 9 hours on low and did a chicken salad

i got a breville on from argos. bargin at £12 odd for a 3.5 litre one

www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4201276/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7CKitchen+and+laundry%7C14418476/Trail/searchtext%3ESLOW+COOKER.htm

Crockpot do good ones, mine is a massive Morphy Richards...yes meat goes in, cooks anywhere from 6 to 8 hours, on a very low heat so meat comes out extremely tender, invaluable in the winter.

I have 3 slow cooker recipe books.

Yes you can put meat in it! If it's mince I brown off first (not sure why i do this) If it's chicken/turkey I just wack it in with water and veggies to make stew. Didn't know you could do a roast chicken, how do you do that? Put it in dry??

some slow cooker recommendations from a previous thread

www.ehow.com/how_2140920_roast-chicken-slow-cooker.html

i used this recipe

Any one tried a ham joint in coke? absolutely fecking well delish to die for..

I've only had mine a few months and do like it but really need recipe ideas! Can u recommend recipe book?
Found a gammon in cider recipe that I want to try but not got around to it.

Ham joint in coke?!

I would recommend falafel in the slow cooker

We gOt one 18 months ago as a Xmas gift. Thought it was gonna be a fad but now I don't know how we lived without it. Bloody amazing bit of kit.

Chickens and other meat joints are great in a slow cooker. Don't need any water as it's usually half full of it's own liquid by the time it's cooked. The main problem with chickens is getting them out afterwards as they're so tender they fall apart. Have also done lamb, pork and beef.

Ooh I cook ham in coke in my slow cooker, it's deeeelish!

I love mine having 3 dd's who all love meat and veg. I chuck a joint of beef in with new potatoes, and veg before they get up and thats tea sorted.

My kids love the slow cooker mixes you can get for £1. The beef and tomatoe ones lush.

If you've had a roast chicken dinner, put the carcass (with a fair bit if meat still on) in the slow cooker. Add chopped baby corn, spring onions or leek, yellow peppers, frozen peas, maybe a bit of chopped chilli, about a pint to pint and a half of chicken stock and a packet of dried noodles (break the noodles up a bit). Cook on low for 6-8 hours. Strip the chicken meat off the carcass & return to the slow cooker & stir round. Gorgeous chicken noodle soup.

Again, chicken carcass in slow cooker. Add a tin of chopped tomatoes & a pint of chicken stock, chilli, peas, peppers, chorizo, onions - whatever you fancy. Cook on low for 6-8 hours again. Strip the meat off the carcass, stir back in. Spanish chicken!

I like it and would like to use it more but the DCs don't like the roasts done in it as they seem very dry and tasteless.It's not slow enough, IYSWIM - food put in before I leave for work - 8am - is dry and horrible by 6pm, even on Low.
Does lovely bolognese, but can bung that in an ordinary pan and it does just the same, so don't really see the advantage. Same with soup.
somebody help - what am i doing wrong?
it's a big Breville one by the way.

I put my joint of beef in water on low, lift it out then make the gravy. I like them as you can put stuff on warm if people are eating at different times