Slow cooker vs pressure cooker - which do you prefer?

Former_MSE_Andrea

Hi all

As it's heartwarming stews and soups season we thought we'd gauge who's a slow cooker fan and who prefers the pressure cooker.

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maman

I'm ashamed to say I've got a pressure cooker in a box and have never used it. The thought of it exploding scares me.:o

So I'll have to vote for the slow cooker.

Former_MSE_Andrea

Slow cooker

I'm a slow cooker user, my husband's a pressure cooker fan - even though the pressure cooker did exactly that a few weeks ago maman!

Dunroamin

Slow cooker

I prefer the slow cooker as well - here's another one who worries about the pressure cooker exploding!

Living_proof

Slow cooker

I too am guilty of the pressure-cooker-in-the-box syndrome, but my two slow cookers are used regularly.

Bitsy_Beans

Can I say neither? Now I have my remoska I don't use my SC much at all (and don't own a pressure cooker either).

irishjohn

Main use for slow cooker is to make meals for the evening so I like to use it in the mornings.

Also useful for dinner party - when soup made the night before or removed from freezer - pop in slow cooker and leave on low so it needs no attention at all until its time to serve

Also useful to keep hot punch ready to serve and wait for refills

Pressure cooker - main use to make stock and then soup - so its in use when making the soup which will either be frozen in bulk or put in the slow cooker to heat and keep warm.

Also used to quick cook potatoes and veg - usually to go with whatever has been cooking in the slow cooker all day

If you told me I had to decide on one and that you would remove the other - its simple - I would just have to kill you!

aeb_2

Pressure cooker

I don't have a slow cooker but I do 'slow cook' on the kitchen wood burner top.

Pressure cooker is used for a gammon joint, done in 20 - 30 mins depending on size. Also for making stock from bones. Also precooking hard fruit like plumbs and oranges which are then made into jam/marmalade/chutney. Saves time and gas

Seakay

Slow cooker

pressure cookers are great but they are much more expensive that a slow cooker so if someone had neither then I'd advise them to get a slow cooker

moments_of_sanity

Pressure cooker

Love both my pressure cooker and my slow cooker.

Just pressure cooked the chicken bones from yesterday's roast chicken and have enough left over to make a chicken pie for the three of us.

I also make soup in my pressure cooker as it is much quicker than making it in the slow cooker.

joedenise

Slow cooker

I voted for slow cooker as I use it far more at home than my pressure cooker, although when camping I use my pressure cooker as we usually don't have electric so slow cooker no good!

Denise