In my slow cooker today...

Sarjsmith

I'm over in Blighty in Oct for a family 'do' and want to pick up a 6.5 litre slow cooker (they are reeeaaalllllllly expensive here) Any hints as to best machine and price ( I know the two don't always go together:rolleyes:)

Sublime_2

Beef stew and dumplings.

tryingtoruletheworld

Sarjsmith wrote: »

I'm over in Blighty in Oct for a family 'do' and want to pick up a 6.5 litre slow cooker (they are reeeaaalllllllly expensive here) Any hints as to best machine and price ( I know the two don't always go together:rolleyes:)

I only have a 3.5 litre slow cooker, but it is a morphy richards, who also do a 6.5 litre. I have found this to be my best slow cooker so far, I have had 3 in total, and the others have been far too fast! This one cooks genuinely slowly rather than coming to the boil which my others did.

cheerfulness4

I also have a Morphy Richards one (5ltrs) that I got off Amazon when they were selling it for £19.99. I've been really pleased with it.

Sublime_2

Pasta sauce, for baked pasta with mozzarella and parmesan, which will be baked in the oven for 15 minutes.

Sui_Generis

Sarjsmith wrote: »

I'm over in Blighty in Oct for a family 'do' and want to pick up a 6.5 litre slow cooker (they are reeeaaalllllllly expensive here) Any hints as to best machine and price ( I know the two don't always go together:rolleyes:)

I use a 3.5L and it cost £10 from Argos buy 2? Though they probably have the larger ones too. They do seem to be pretty cheap over here for any given size.

I'd recommended one to a friend after my experience and she dismissed it with "I have a cast iron casserole already I don't use". Then she found a new one via Freecycle and ever since has been wow'd by it

sb44

Does anyone have a slow cooker that looks like this one and if so, what are the benefits of this kind to the normal ones?

Ta.

janiebaby29

Cooking the last bits of veg hanging round , I have a asda delivery coming round tommorow .
used a small bit of coleslaw mix , that i didnt have any mayo left to add , one courgette , some mushrooms , ripe toms , half a red onion that needed using , red pepper , a floppy carrot and will chuck some spinach leaves in a bit later , added chicken stock ,
it smells lovely already !!
have a loaf of wholemeal bread in the BM on the go too !!

Katie-Kat-Kins

snapping_crocodile wrote: »

I've got pork casserole made up of diced new potatoes, pork, carrots, red pepper and onion topped off with a packet pork casserole sauce. Hope it's tasty!!

KatP...what is your recipe for drunken beef?

Right I haven't got the recipe to hand so I can't remember the quantities but it was to serve 4, I used less meat and we had all the meat for dinner and DH had the sauce for lunch the next day. I didn't want to reduce the amount of liquid I put in as it was my first go!

1 large onion
2 carrotts - sliced
Beef, I think it recommeded gravy beef but I used some frying steak that had been frozen a little longer than ideal....
Mushrooms
Beer - didn't say what sort, think you'd need ale or stout though not fizzy lager!
Tomatoe paste (2 table spoons I think)
Plain Flour
Olive Oil
Bouquet Garnet

Today is improvised curry...... will let you know how it goes! Will have Nann bread with it, heated in the microwave.

Oh and re the metallic taste, the foil wasn't in the liquid, The potatoes were held above the level of the sauce on a little rack. I do think that the beer I used wasn't a great choice, when I had a glass later I thought that was probably the culprit and the slightly metallicy taste was similar. DH loved the lot though!

Sui_Generis

sb44 wrote: »

Does anyone have a slow cooker that looks like this one and if so, what are the benefits of this kind to the normal ones?

Ta.

That looks like metal? Most are earthenware IME. I would think the other types are more energy efficient as the bowl goes inside them, this would radiate any heat it had surely?