The Crockpot/slow cooking thread.

[russellsimpson]

That didn't look too bad at all. It had potential. Could use a little colour.

[cyrille]

The reputation went sometime ago..

He’s deliberately playing it for laughs.

It’s like a later ‘Tom & Jerry’, when the two of them could talk.

A Bad Cover Version.

[Joe 90]

There's a lot of beef in there, the dog will be happy.

Maybe adding some extra pepper , salt and chilli might save it?
Fvck it I might chuck in a tin of Pataks and make a sweet curry.

Some raisins wouldn't go amiss either!

There's still hope yet to save this crock of crap...

[russellsimpson]

Don't know about the raisins though.

[DrWilly]

Fist the beef brown, chop and delicately place open a bed of cherry tomatoes..

Yeah, you cooked the meat rather than browned it. Next time consider seasoning and a small dusting of flour on the meat too. It will add to the thickness of the stew.

[Stumpy]

I remember my mom using a slow cooker. Not very often though. The meal she made was a pot roast. It was a very tasty dish. In the end the slow cooker collected more dust in a cabinet then it was used, kind of like a bread maker.

I think they would work good here for making Thai beef almost where you could eat it.

[Joe 90]

I've added more beef stock pepper and salt.
Going down the beef stew route now.
Tomorrow is a new day

[Shutree]

After some liquid refreshment and inspiration, I've decided to rip up the slow cook recipe rule book !

You might actually find the book useful. It will probably offer a couple of tips, like using less spice beause the flavours tend to be more intense in a slow cooker and adding meat on top of the veg, for reasons I don't understand but which seem to work.
I use mine quite a lot, I bought it here and it isn't as good as the one I had 40 years ago, this one seems a bit hot, not slow enough. I cooked the bottom half of a cottage pie in it the other day, came out really well. Do the spuds any time you are ready and put the two halves together in the oven for a final browning. I often make sausage and bean chilli as well as beef stews. Some people still brown their beef in a frying pan before adding it to the slow cooker, I no longer bother, just chuck it all in there.
I used to find a slow cooker very useful in the days of a family, when it wasn't certain what times different people would get home and not everyone was willing to wait to eat together, people could just help themselves whenever they wanted. Side by side with a rice cooker it worked really well. And nearly everything out of the slow cooker can be frozen, make one large pot of food and stash the uneaten half in portions in the freezer.

[Reg Dingle]

I think they would work good here for making Thai beef almost where you could eat it.

Nothing softens and makes Thai beef edible.... It just turns to cardboard.

I gave Loy Toy my sous vide when I left.

I havent seem him attempt a thread yet

[Mendip]

^ You obviously haven't tried my steak and kidney pie. It's delicious.

You just have to simmer the beef for a while.

I would show a picture of one we had last week... but I've found it's a tough audience on here!

[david44]

Nothing softens and makes Thai beef edible

Did you marinade top quality in a basin overnight?, of course some are shocked by the buffalo bill.

[aging one]

Chitty, it was ruined from here. As was stated cut the beef into cubes, use seasoned flour, ie pepper, salt, or Cajun spice, and what other ones you like. Shake in a bag and fry it off just browning it. Drain and put into the cooking pot along with what veg you like along with the stock of your choice. This one had new potatoes, baby onions, carrots and green beans. I then slow cook it in the oven for 3 hours.



Should look like this from a couple of weeks ago.

[Shutree]

Nothing softens and makes Thai beef edible.

A short marinade in pineapple juice helps. Then into the slow cooker. Not saying it's great, at least edible.

[bsnub]

Chitty, it was ruined from here.

It was as he cooked it to shoe leather as usual. I often wonder where Chitty's brain is, I mean he bought a "slow COOKER" why the hell would you cook the beef first? Maybe he is too dense to understand "browning" of meat?

[hallelujah]

It was as he cooked it to shoe leather as usual. I often wonder where Chitty's brain is, I mean he bought a "slow COOKER" why the hell would you cook the beef first? Maybe he is too dense to understand "browning" of meat?

We've had ours for about 10 years and rarely a week goes by when we don't use it for something: stews, curries, ragus etc.

Not in the way that Chitty did, mind.

[Stumpy]

It was as he cooked it to shoe leather

There are a few on here that prefer incinerated beef Snubs.

I thought that the idea behind the slow cooker back in the 80s was to be able to take really cheap cuts of beef and slow cook them to the point you can actually eat them without getting a cramp in your jaw bone from chewing it.
Chili and all those other recipes came later when people experimented.

Now they are back and we start all over again.

[aging one]

There are a few on here that prefer incinerated beef Snubs.

Saw this and got a laugh.

[hallelujah]

You try telling that to my mum, AO.

[Takeovers]

When I order medium in a Steakhouse I get what is labeled rare on this chart.

BTW, did you know that TV is a medium? It is not rare and it is not well done.

[bsnub]

I thought that the idea behind the slow cooker back in the 80s was to be able to take really cheap cuts of beef and slow cook them to the point you can actually eat them without getting a cramp in your jaw bone from chewing it.
Chili and all those other recipes came later when people experimented.

Well that is part of it for sure but slow cookers have been used around since the 40's. From wiki...

Slow cooker - Wikipedia

Slow cookers achieved popularity in the US during the 1940s, when many women began to work outside the home.^[2] They could start dinner cooking in the morning before going to work and finish preparing the meal in the evening when they came home.

I know that a lot of people use it as described. Prep it up the night before and then put it in the fridge when you take off for work, you take it out and turn it on. By the time you go home, the house is smelling like dinner is ready.

Chitty should try some of these...

Dump dinners.

55 Crockpot Dump Meals to Make for Dinner Tonight I Taste of Home

[bsnub]

You try telling that to my mum, AO.

It seems as if shoe leather is a common theme for steak in England. Shameful.

[Troy]

Tomorrow is a new day

Lamb is a good meat for the slow cooker...

How about Lamb shanks -> Slow cooker lamb shanks recipe | BBC Good Food

or a lamb madras -> Slow Cooker Lamb Madras

You can't go wrong with those, just chuck the ingredients into the pot before work and cook up some mash or rice when you get home.

[hallelujah]

It seems as if shoe leather is a common theme for steak in England. Shameful.

It's a generational thing in the main. Just like beans on toast etc, which I do love from time-to-time , when that was all people of a certain age had after the country had been bombed to smithereens in the war, the economy was suffering and rationing was in place for a number of years.

My mum still doesn't quite understand the concept of refrigeration and if anything is not eaten piping hot and incinerated it will be thrown out. I put something in the fridge and she will refuse to eat it the next day; it drives me fucking crazy.

My grandad was exactly the same, worrying that something would make him sick if it hadn't been nuked, and she just has the same habits.

[bsnub]

when that was all people of a certain age had after the country had been bombed to smithereens in the war, the economy was suffering and rationing was in place for a number of years.

Something that your parents and grandparents have in common with the modern day Ukrainians. It is a shame there is not more participation in those threads by you Brits here.

My mum still doesn't quite understand the concept of refrigeration and if anything is not eaten piping hot and incinerated it will be thrown out. I put something in the fridge and she will refuse to eat it the next day; it drives me fucking crazy.

Jeezus. How long ago did you Brits get refrigerators?

[Stumpy]

I know that a lot of people use it as described. Prep it up the night before and then put it in the fridge when you take off for work, you take it out and turn it on. By the time you go home, the house is smelling like dinner is ready.

True and for busy families they are probably not only a life saver but save eating out all the time.

not eaten piping hot and incinerated it will be thrown out.

My Dad is a Torch and Incinerate guy. It pains me when I go home to visit and Q. I have to bite my tongue Qing a nice Ribeye