Re: slow cookers (flylady and)

[Guest guest]

No a slow cooker doesn't sound at all like a 'crock pot'. A

crock pot is a large cooking pot suitable mostly for making

soup and other runny stuff. You couldn't bake anything in

it. It's a pan on the hob while a slow cooker is an oven,

if you see what I mean.

Phyllis (whose mom has/had a crock pot and never really

made anything good in it, as far as I can recall)

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[Guest guest]

I'm not sure if you're right there, Phyllis. I've always thought a slow

cooker and a crock pot were more or less the same thing. You always see

pictures of crock pots with chicken joints and veggies bubbling away.

Anyway, I will be in a position to confirm all this afternoon, because I

am off to buy one, thanks to the inspiration from this group!

I'm sure like all families with school age children, their after-school

activities really get in the way of mealtimes - and that is coupled with a

dh who is very vague about when he is going to come home. I like the idea

of serving the children something wholesome from a crock pot, then being

able to save it for dh. Much better than having to reheat food that has

dried out. And if I can prepare dinner in the morning, that would be even

better, as I'm in a much better kitchen mood at that time.

Joyce

feeling a beef bourginogne coming on (any excuse to open a bottle of wine).

Re: slow cookers (flylady and)

No a slow cooker doesn't sound at all like a 'crock pot'. A

crock pot is a large cooking pot suitable mostly for making

soup and other runny stuff. You couldn't bake anything in

it. It's a pan on the hob while a slow cooker is an oven,

if you see what I mean.

Phyllis (whose mom has/had a crock pot and never really

made anything good in it, as far as I can recall)

[Guest guest]

> I'm not sure if you're right there, Phyllis. I've always thought a

slow cooker and a crock pot were more or less the same thing.

I have a slow cooker - and use it for soups, stews, casseroles - and it

does a wonderful rice pud!

Best use is for cooking something conventionally in the afternoon then

keeping it warm while doing the school/swim/brownie/choir etc runs.

Barbara

[Guest guest]

I'm just back from buying a Crock Pot - it is the same as a slow cooker - it

even describes itself as that.

Joyce

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From: J.M. [sMTP:jmj@...]

I'm not sure if you're right there, Phyllis. I've always thought a slow

cooker and a crock pot were more or less the same thing. You always see

pictures of crock pots with chicken joints and veggies bubbling away.

Anyway, I will be in a position to confirm all this afternoon, because I

am off to buy one, thanks to the inspiration from this group!

[Guest guest]

Have just come across Franny Singer's 'The Slow Crock Cook Book' so am

happy to post recipes if you tell me the sort of thing your're looking

for...how appropriate though, that she should be called Franny as

she's obviously got off hers and written the book!!

Caro

PS - the picture on the front of this Crock Cook Book shows the exact

slow cooker thingy that I had as a student (made by Prestige: a metal

bowl thingy with an element in the bottom, into which you sit a

ceramic type casserole with lid - into which you put the sauted and

hotted up ingredients to cook - which you can then take out and put

on table and wash up normally, leaving the element freestanding.)

> Anyway, I will be in a position to confirm all this afternoon,

because I

> am off to buy one, thanks to the inspiration from this group!

>

I think the best use is in the slowness of the cooking - very very

tender meat even cheap cuts...and presumably things like chick pea

casseroles assuming they had been boiled fast for ten mins at the

initial stages pre cooker.

Plus knowing that whatever you've put in will not burn as is cooking

so gently.

Caro

> Best use is for cooking something conventionally in the afternoon

then

> keeping it warm while doing the school/swim/brownie/choir etc runs.

> Barbara

[Guest guest]

>I'm not sure if you're right there, Phyllis. I've always thought a slow

>cooker and a crock pot were more or less the same thing.

I vaguely remember from time spent Stateside and in NZ (ads with

American accents), pans that go on the stove/hob but cook like an

electric slow cooker as opposed to being plugged in. They can do

amazing things like you make a chicken and rice dinner in the bottom

('Cook from frozen!') and a cake in a rack on the top. And even your

husband can cook whilst he also mows the lawn and does various other

household chores.....

Is this where it's all getting confusing? (Not the husband thing, I mean

the crock pot thing)

--

Sue

Nottingham

[Guest guest]

Also brilliant for boiling home-made Xmas pudding. Just stick it in last

thing at night and pull it out in the morning. It cooks away quietly without

boiling over or needing toping up.

Yes you can use a pressure cooker, but since my Grandmother found bits of

pudding and bits of basin on her fairly high ceiling I've not been tempted

:-) )

Used to make stew in it quite often, but this house has a Rayburn so when

the heating is on I have a low hob/ oven for the job.

[Guest guest]

The special Sabbath stew called Cholent is best in a slow cooker.

Containing meat, marrow bones, onions, potatoes, beans, barley, and

flavourings such as paprika, garlic, brown sugar, etc, I put it on

first thing Friday morning and we eat it Saturday lunch, it's perfect.

There are literally hundreds of cholent recipes on the web if you do a

search.

Ruthie