Not doing too well with slow cooker

YORKSHIRELASS

I have been a big fan of the slow cooker for years but you do have to be aware that meals made in it are different in taste and texture to meals made using a conventional oven. Personally I love slow cooked food but I do have a friend who bought a slow cooker and just wasnt happy with the results so she gave it away.

The one thing I have never had much success with is soup. I think soup needs simmering to blend the flavours together somehow.

Favourites of mine are things like slow cooked brisket, meatballs, steak and kidney pudding, stew, chilli, mince beef hotpot and curry. I also love to cook chicken thighs in it so I can easily strip the meat off the bone.

I think there is a bit of trial and error involved. I heard someone say the other day that sausages are great slow cooked but I think they are awful so I guess its all about personal preference too!

betterlife

i think slowcookers are a bit of trial and error, and it seems most sc cook differently aswell!, i dont like cooking soups and stews in mine as i find it over cooks it and i dont like the taste, so 30 mins on hob is perfect. but i always cook joints of gammon ham (then finish in oven for 20mins covered in honey) beef roasting joints, but i cook these in gravy (half tub of basic granules made up to about 2pints couple of oxo cubes) after 5-7 hrs beef is so moist and tender and gravy is fab! beef will fall apart if carved hot, but take it out and allow to go cold and carves perfectly! i make stock with chic bones over night in sc, more intense flavour fopr soup base, if im cooking cottage pie i brown mince in frying pan then pop in sc with gravy (same as beef) and cook on low all day, makes mince so tender, then drain and make cottage pie as usual, and you have a gorgeous gravy aswell! pork in coke and bbq sauce is fab and pulls apart, slow cooker curry is nice aswell, good luck x

Own_My_Own

When we did a boot sale last year dd got the slow cooker out of the cupboard to put in the car.
I told her we weren't selling it as I hadn't had it long.
Her reply ' I know Mum, but nobody likes anything you cook in it ! ' :rotfl: