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lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

I do agree. The only benefit I see is that the slow cooker uses less energy than an oven slow-cooking?

Whenever I use the slow cooker because I cba to do something properly, the result is always a watery meat soup. By the time you've done things properly by searing the meat and giving it a flouring, it's less effort just to leave it on the hob or chuck it in the oven.

Can the crockery pot from a slow cooker be used first on the hob? I could probably do that, but our slow cooker was cheap and a wedding present - not on the list but it was a good gift.

I need to lose 2012's Xmas weight as well as this one. All I've been able to hear for the last 15 minutes is constant frying. DS wanted to make [STRIKE]breakfast[/STRIKE] brunch burritos, which isn't exactly healthy.

Don't think so. You can get metal dish slow cookers which are a bit more versatile, but I didn't know that when I got mine, .

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

...where i read hoping to feel inspired to use mine, have different culinary tastes to me, so its difficult to know if our palates are so different that what they like I might never come around to.

Never underestimate how appalling their cooking might be. Typing the name of a dish and saying it tasted gorgeous and that the OH/kids said it was nice doesn't mean it was anything of the sort...... I've seen some shockingly appalling food produced in the photos Stuff I wouldn't want somebody's dog to eat.... but maybe I'm the only one who thinks roasties need to be evenly cooked and not white at one end and black at the other

Also, many people DO find it "all tastes the same" in a SC.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Never underestimate how appalling their cooking might be. Typing the name of a dish and saying it tasted gorgeous and that the OH/kids said it was nice doesn't mean it was anything of the sort...... I've seen some shockingly appalling food produced in the photos Stuff I wouldn't want somebody's dog to eat.... but maybe I'm the only one who thinks roasties need to be evenly cooked and not white at one end and black at the other

Also, many people DO find it "all tastes the same" in a SC.

Please find me a picture?

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Never underestimate how appalling their cooking might be. Typing the name of a dish and saying it tasted gorgeous and that the OH/kids said it was nice doesn't mean it was anything of the sort...... I've seen some shockingly appalling food produced in the photos Stuff I wouldn't want somebody's dog to eat.... but maybe I'm the only one who thinks roasties need to be evenly cooked and not white at one end and black at the other

Also, many people DO find it "all tastes the same" in a SC.

Are you talking about MY pics? :rotfl: Its a,aging how much worse food looks in pictures if you are me!

The pancakes I put up the other day looked VILE. :rotfl: I couldn't believe how awfully they looked. They might have been ok if they were meant to be sweet and I could have said the sauce was dulce de leche, but but they really did look rank :rotfl::rotfl:

However, they tasted good, to the taste of thos eating them.

Taste is a really differing thing. I wouldn't like the weekly menus of lots of people there just as they wouldn't like mine, and that's ok. . So long as those eating it are ok with it more or less.

I find menu planning for parent and DH at the same time MUCH harder as they have very different tastes. Parent is actually beimg helpful about that ATM, and frankly DH has been less so in recent months, and because he's been stresses I've been favouring dh's tastes a little.

At least once a week, mid week, parent provides for themselves. Nothing I'd cook. Occasionally has cooked for us too, which is very sweet and well received. Made, after a long consultation process :rotfl: a fantastic potato soup before Christmas which was delicious and me safe. And scones.

Sadly took about six hours and left the cheese room like a bomb had hit it and gen might laugh,,,,,,used a frying pan and two sauce pans to make four portions of soup.

No, I'm not sure how either.


But, you see, it was a kind thing to do.


(But I really hate sharing my kitchen)

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

Please find me a picture?

She's going to put one of mine up. :rotfl:

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

Please find me a picture?

That'd be mean .......

lostinrates

Roast potatoes in the dark with other veg on a plate. (The roast potatoes are in the middle). They do look a bit pale in the pic, its true.

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

We have one of these:
http://www.mychoice.co.uk/baumatic-bhc900-ceramic-hob-90-cm-4-zones-black?network=google&gclid=CMvz8fS237sCFVMdtAodNGYAdg

We had a ceramic hob in the house we lived in from 1999-2005. I never got used to it and still hated it by the time we left. (Although LNE did a lot more cooking than I did, so I didn't have as much chance to get used to it as I might have done.) I'd like to try an induction hob one day, but otherwise it's gas every time for me. (Also, I'd like to know what you do if you have an induction hob and want to cook something like pancakes that need shaking over the heat.)

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

We had a ceramic hob in the house we lived in from 1999-2005. I never got used to it and still hated it by the time we left. (Although LNE did a lot more cooking than I did, so I didn't have as much chance to get used to it as I might have done.) I'd like to try an induction hob one day, but otherwise it's gas every time for me. (Also, I'd like to know what you do if you have an induction hob and want to cook something like pancakes that need shaking over the heat.)

Ooh, I'd never thought of that.

The thing with induction jobs is that sales men keep saying to me...touch them, touch them they are totally safe, and I keep saying......but I don't care......are they good? And they just keep saying how safe they are and I just keep saying I don't care, I like to walk on the wild side.......it gets quite nasty that they get cross i don't automatically love the idea and DH gets the giggles.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Are you talking about MY pics? :rotfl:

No, but I was looking through on "that" thread to see.... and I've identified the person that can't cook for toffee

Food photography IS a specialist thing. There are many extra pressures too. Apart from does it look nice on that plate, did you ponce about with the layout ... there's all that "what's in the background of the photo" and the general lighting issues (cooking in evenings without adequate lighting).

Then there's the "I want to eat it, not faff about" - and if there's anybody else around they get annoyed, so you also end up trying to do it quickly and it's blurry.

As I told you the other week... I only post there "to take the pee". I know I'm not "cooking meals" - mine is just "Bird with microwave warmed this up, or chucked this random selection together and chucked it into a bowl" ...... and my food's bizarre and although I like meat well done, many other things are quite light brown, which tends to look under-done in photos.

I do it because I've got the cameraphone and so, finally, "I can".