Slow cooker question...

[Jojo3973]

Hi, I am trying to decide whether to buy a slow cooker. I am out of the house for 10hours a day usually. Is that too long to leave things cooking? Want to do things like casserole, chilli, bolognese, curries. Just read a thread which said most recipes are for 6 hours or so. Would my meals be ruined leaving them for 10 hours?

I have a book which has several 10+ hour recipes. Even those which state less time I leave longer with no ill effects.

Nope, they'd be fine, left on low for ten hours

A couple of things though - firstly you could invest in a slowcooker that has an automatic warm function, so you could set it to go to warm after 7-8 hours. Alternitively, you could buy a wall timer that you could set to come on at a specific time.

And if you do get a SC, you need to be in this FB group

www.facebook.com/#!/groups/slowcookedwonders/

As long as there's liquid in the slow cooker and it's on low, it's almost impossible to burn food. Some won't cope with long cooking, like fish or peas, but a lot of it's trial and error. Sometimes I leave mine on overnight, 10 hours or more till I turn it off, and the stuff is fine.

You don't nessicarily need liquid in the DC though - you can do a whole chicken without liquid as it makes plenty of its own.

That would be SC not DC...