Slow Cooker help! It only has one heat setting!

Komorebi

Hi everyone,

I searched the forums for an answer but I must be typing in the wrong thing because I couldn't find anything, so I thought maybe I would de-lurk on this board and see if anyone could help here.

I bought a 'multi-cooker' from Aldi a few weeks ago; it's a pressure cooker that is also a slow cooker. I've used its pressure function to cook pork belly with great success but now I want to try slow cooking.

The problem is, the cooker only has one slow cooker related button: 'Long cook', everything else is pressure-cooker related, time delay, or time adjustment settings. I've read the manual cover to cover, and it tells me that if I leave the lid off, the 'Long cook' button can be used to saute (which I did for the pork), and if the lid is on, the 'long cook' button will make the cooker slow cook. My issue is that all the recipes I find for slow cooking say something like 'cook on high for x hours, or on low for y hours'. As my cooker only has one button, I'm not sure which time period I should be following.

Is this a matter of doing a test on a weekend, and seeing how long it takes to cook, or is there a rule that a single-setting cooker will usually cook low (or high, as the case may be?).

I've looked online for more info on the brand, but the 'Crofton' brand who makes the cooker is basically an Aldi brand so has no online presence.

Any help would be much appreciated!

PasturesNew

When it says "on high for 1 hour" just add 2 hours to the slow cook time instead. As a rule of thumb 1 hour high = 2 hours low. Many people don't use their high as they want to leave it when they go out in the morning, eliminating their options of manually switching to low an hour later..... nobody dies

Spendless

The only time I ever use high setting on my sc is if I'm at home and think around lunch-time, 'damn I meant to put the sc on for tonights tea'. Then it goes on high to ensure it's done on time, otherwise it's left on slow whilst I'm at work. Mine has a 'warm' setting, which I use for one recipe only (pulled pork) and that's purely because the meat has to go back in after being 'pulled' and I use the time to get the other meal accompaniments together. If my sc didn't have this setting, I'd jsut put it back in anyway. I certainly don't mess with turning anything down a few hours later. It would defeat the object of me using a sc, I want it to cook a meal whilst I'm not in.

Komorebi

Ah ok, so it's most likely that the setting on my cooker is the equivalent of 'low', and some people have a 'high' option as an extra to do things quicker.

Thanks for the replies!

SailorSam

I've got the Argos, Cookworks SC which has high and low settings, i've only ever used the slow one. I thought the whole idea of a SC was to cook things slowly. Normally i try and fill it and switch on last thing at night, then it's done in the morning.
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