whole chicken in the slow cooker

Fruball

I have cooked one in there before and when i went to pick it up out of the stock, the whole thing fell into pieces and I had to pick each little piece up off the side!!!

The meat was beautiful tho - flavour better than roasted, not in the least bit dry!! Beautiful

Lippycow

I put a drop of oil and butter in a frying pan and brown the chicken,have SC on high and pop the chicken in pour over the oil and butter cook for 5 hours....come out perfect:-)

roosterpotatoes

I have tried chicken twice and my mums tried it in the sc and i would say DONT DO IT lol, every time is gone really soggy, we added no water and sat it on an up side down plate so the juices would run off but it was disgusting, we couldnt lift it out as it all just fell apart, we let it cook for about 6 hours on high.
I was so disappointed as it wasnt a cheap chicken but its put me off for life
I now use the sc as a plant pot and at present have a cauliflower growing in it rotfl

Pink.

Hi frugal,

I like a whole chicken cooked in the slow cooker. I have a morphy richards 6.5ltr and cook it with about a mug of stock in the bottom. Sometimes before putting it in the slowcooker I stick some rosemary in the cavity and use a knife to stab the flesh, then twist it and pop slices of garlic into the holes. I cook it on high for about six hours and just before serving I lift it out, pop it onto a tray and whack it under the grill to crisp up the skin and make gravy from the juices left in the slow cooker. The result is beautifully tender moist chicken.

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Fruball

roosterpotatoes wrote: »

I have tried chicken twice and my mums tried it in the sc and i would say DONT DO IT lol, every time is gone really soggy, we added no water and sat it on an up side down plate so the juices would run off but it was disgusting, we couldnt lift it out as it all just fell apart, we let it cook for about 6 hours on high.
I was so disappointed as it wasnt a cheap chicken but its put me off for life
I now use the sc as a plant pot and at present have a cauliflower growing in it rotfl

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I always cook in my SC overnight and its always been beautifully cooked I never turn mine higher than low.Brisket which is a beautiful joint cooked in a SC tastes devine after SC overnight.I hoick it out in the morning and put on a plate to 'rest' and it slices very well.

Fruball

OMG it smells soooooooooooooooooooo good - altho waking up to the smell of cooked chicken doesn't appeal much! DS is going to turn it off in the morning so it will get 11 hours on low, rather than 14/15 by the time I get up!!!

I am working up an appetite already

Swan_2

like roosterpotatoes I've twice cooked a whole chicken in a SC, the first time it was so awful that I tried it again because I thought I'd done something wrong

but no, it was just as foul (no pun intended) as the first attempt, falling-off-the-bone overcooked meat, horrible collapsed carcase & the vile disgusting smell throughout the house! _pale_ ... never again

I got lots of lovely stock, but what a waste of my carefully budgeted for, should have been very tasty, free-range birds



EDIT ... I barely covered the bottom with liquid the first time & didn't add any at all the second time

Fruball

ITS COOKED!!!!!!!!!!!!

I put it on at about 7pm - its now 2.30am so its had 7.5 hours on low and its beautiful I just had a bowlful of chicken, stock and some of the halves carrots and onions that I put in with it and it was lovely

I will turn it off before I go to bed and then pick all the meat off tomorrow and ssssstttttrrrrreeeeetttttccccchhhhh the meat to last for at least 4 meals for me and the kids over the next fortnight (freezer for most of it).

Success

Thanks for all your tips people xx

littlemissmoneypenny

I've just put mine in for dinner tonight and I'm not holding out much hope, if I'm honest. It's a 3.5l sc and the chicken just fits and no more. I've put it on a high setting for now as I cannot believe it's actually going to be cooked by 6pm.