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Slow Cookers: Your Questions Colllection

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  • coffeehound
    coffeehound Posts: 5,649
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    Is it okay to piggyback a question here? This useful thread deserves a bump anyway.

    To try to eat better, I'm thinking of using a slow cooker overnight on Economy7. The thing I'm wondering is, will the food be safe to eat at say 8 pm if the slow cooker was switched off 14 hours earlier at 6 am?

    Thanks for any advice!
  • pamsdish
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    I wouldn`t like to, as the whole concept of slow cooking is low energy, dependent on the wattage of your oven and cost per unit of leccy, my small crockpot which I use 4/5 times a week is 180 watts, full power.
    I would cook it through the day, you could prep it the night before and refrigerate overnight if time is also an issue.
    Do I need it or just want it.
  • Slowly57
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    I love my SCs and though I use them throughout the year - it really feels like autumn when they come out and stay on the worktop :)

    Where did you get yours? I have one hand-me-on (too big) and one from a rummage sale which is groovy orange, 1970s-looking and has smelt vaguely of chilli since i bought it for a whopping 99p.
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  • Slowly57
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    pamsdish wrote: »
    you could prep it the night before and refrigerate overnight if time is also an issue.

    I was always told that you need to start with ingredients at room temp or put warm stuff in a warm SC? I know that if I don't, the SC seems to be using all of its time/energy warming-up the pot/ingredients instead of cooking them. Nothing worse than a lukewarm meal with raw potatoes or pink meat ....
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  • elsien
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    I put mine in the fridge over night but then get it out in the morning before I go to work. I use a timer so it comes on at lunchtime and is ready for 7.30 when I get home. So it's had time to warm to room temperature before it turns on.
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  • pamsdish
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    I frequently get my frozen veg drawer, on the top, already put meat in slow cooker, chicken beef whatever I want, and start throwing in handfuls of veg, choice of frozen chopped onions, carrots, parsnips, swede, mushrooms, tomatoes, etc, add any herbs spices sauce mixes, adjusting liquid if necessary,turn it on high until I can see it`s defrosting well, turn to low. I would never cook any meat from frozen but veg are fine.
    Do I need it or just want it.
  • Has anyone made a Christmas pudding in their slow cooker? IF so do you have a recipe ?
    TIA
  • Has anyone made a Christmas pudding in their slow cooker? IF so do you have a recipe ?
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  • eandjsmum
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    Christmas pud


    4oz fresh white breadcrumbs
    4oz plain flour
    1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
    1/4 tsp cinnamon
    4oz suet
    3oz Caster sugar
    3oz soft brown sugar
    3oz mixed peal
    4oc currents
    3oz sultanas
    7oz raisens
    2oz blanched almonds chopped
    I cooking apple, peeled cored and chopped
    Grated rind of and juice half a lemon
    Grated rind and juice of half an orange
    2tbsp Brandy
    1 large egg beaten
    3-4 tbsp. milk


    Mix all the dry ingredients stir in almond apple orange and lemon rind.
    Mix juices brandy and egg. Stir into dry ingredients add enough milk to make a soft dropping consistency.
    Turn into a greased 1and1/2 pint basin.
    Cover with greaseproof paper and foil.
    Put in slow cooker with boiling water to come half way up the basin.
    Cook on high for 6-8 hours. (keep an eye on the water level and replace if necessary)
    Remove the greaseproof paper and foil and replace. Store in a dry place.
    Re-heat on high for 2-3 hours before serving.


    Hope this helps.
  • wort
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    Glad to have found this thanks Pastures New.
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