Using a slow cooker - techniques and tips

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Hi Iguana,

This thread might interest you as well: Slow Cooker - The Recipe Collection. There are some lovely recipes on there.

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I finally found what I was really looking for, Slow Cooker Recipe Index , it lists the recipes in categories which makes it easier to find a recipe depending on the ingredients you have.

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skylight

Whats the difference between a Rice Cooker and a Slow Cooker? I cannot cook rice to save my life and thought about buying one cheap yesterday in the sales.

But it looks just like a Slow Cooker! Cant I just chuck rice and water in the SC and leave it for a few hours???? (Although technically that would scupper my plans for Curry and Rice!!)

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Hi Charlotte,

I've never tried rice to cook rice in the slow cooker, so I can't really help. Tefal do a combined slow cooker/rice cooker/steamer for £39.97 inc delivery.

There's also an older thread, Anyone got a foolproof way of making rice? that may help you with cooking rice.

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skylight

The Foolproof way? Been there, tried that and wasn't quite as foolproof as hoped!!!!!
(Although, to be honest, using the tips there, my rice was CONSIDERABLY better than usual!)

But being a fool.........

Thanks anyway!

Curry_Queen

keren29 wrote:

I'm a slow cook virgin.....blush.....but fancied trying my new one with the rice pudding recipe I found on the board.....but...I don't have any evaporated milk - would double cream work in the same way???

This is the original recipe...

Butter the inside of the cooking pot. Add 400ml milk, 150ml evaporated milk, 50g pudding rice, 50g sugar. Stir and cook for 4-5 hours.

Hi Keren

I made a rice pudding in my *new SC the other day and it turned out lovely! I didn't use evaporated milk or cream, just normal semi-skimmed milk with the rice and sugar in roughly the same quantities as above (i.e. 50g rice to a pint of milk) although I just did it by eye rather than weigh it out.

I also think 4-5 hours on HIGH (as stated in my recipe instructions) might be a little too long cooking time as mine was ready after 3 hours and I'd already added a little more milk to that as it had absorbed it all after a couple hours, but maybe I was a little heavy handed on the rice lol

*I treated myself to the smaller Cordon Bleu SC that Argos were selling for £11 a couple of weeks back and it's a cute little machine - a mini version of the huge MR one

Only need one more to catch up with our TM now :rotfl:

beccajune

Hello
I have just bought the cookworks SC in the argos sale and wondered if someone could please tell me how long I should cook 2 medium sized jacket spuds for - adventurous I know, but I need to start somewhere!!
Thanks
Beccajune

squeaky

There are so many occasions where we're advised to parboil potatoes before adding them to a slow cooker that I had never thought of trying to do jackets in one, so I had to look it up!

Try any of the recipes you fancy from the link below:-

http://crockpot.cdkitchen.com/recipes/cat/803/0.shtml

halloweenqueen_2

I did my bit of xmas gammon (unsmoked) in the SC with just a little water to cover the bottom of the dish and it was gorgeous, best bit we've had.

Ticklemouse

Curry_Queen wrote:

*I treated myself to the smaller Cordon Bleu SC that Argos were selling for £11 a couple of weeks back and it's a cute little machine - a mini version of the huge MR one

Only need one more to catch up with our TM now :rotfl:

Sorry to disappoint you all, but in the interests of saving space and making money, I sold my 3rd one in a car boot sale a couple of months back. So, CQ, we are, yet again, the same