lamb piece too big for slow cooker...

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Hello all, recent newbie here, and infrequent poster, but I find myself with a small probelemette. Bought a leg of lamb, with the intention of putting it in the slow cooker for several decades whilst my main oven is full with beef tatties etc. I remember a friend doing a Jamie Oliver slow roast lamb, and planned to recreate from memory...So. It won't fit! Think now that I'll roast the beef today and put the lamb in te oven tomorrow. Two things though, I want to slow cook it for 3-4 hours, but then my tatties won't cook, will they? Then the other small issue, I only have tins big enough. If I'm slow cooking, do you think I could seal the tray well enough with foil? Or shall I just stop, freeze the lamb and rethink...? Only used to cooking for three, feels like I've got the world com ing tomorrow!
Thanking you muchly

can you not just roast it and save yourself some faff?

why not do the beef in the slow cooker and roast the lamb in the oven with the potatoes?
DH does a mean slowcooked joint of beef

Hmmm...I'd become so tied up in the slow cook thing, I hadn't actually thought of just roasting!! ; and as to slow cooking the beef, no that joint is ginormous, though I've done slow cooked beef joints too, and you're right, totally delicious...Thanks!!

Just another thought, if the the lamb is a whole leg, does it have a 'knee' joint in the middle - can you waggle it a bit? If so if you cut through this joint to create two pieces, and if so would they fit in your slow cooker side by side? Being a slow cooked lamb having two chunks wouldn't matter as you don't carve it - the meat falls off.

I do the Jamie slow lamb in a roasting tin with tin foil and no problem.

Can I just ask, how big a family are you catering for to do two different roasts?!

Thanks all...got the carving knife out, and after a prolonged carve fest managed to take a couple of inches off the end! 10 of us, but want lots of cold cuts for next day, love cooking, but not a natural!!