Scared of my slow cooker

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  • CarolPre
    CarolPre Posts: 1,865 Member
    edited September 2017
    If you are afraid to leave it cooking while gone, maybe do a trial run on a day when you're home to watch it. I couldn't live without my slow cooker. We use it mostly for cooking roasts or BBQ ribs, but I've made all kinds of stews and soups in it too.

    Also, invest in some of those slow cooker liners to help with clean up.
  • mjbnj0001
    mjbnj0001 Posts: 1,268 Member
    CTcutie wrote: »
    Make sure it shuts off/has a timer - or I think you can buy a regular timer to plug it into! ...

    My regular slow cooker came with a second, small cooker intended to keep dips and such warm for parties. It is also a good size for an oatmeal breakfast. No built-in timer, so I used an outlet timer. Worked perfectly - started 3-4 hrs before I woke to cook, turned off and the unit/contents stayed warm until I ate. Took a few daytime experiments to get the timing parameters set ok. Stopped using this combo because the unit is a pain to clean . Someday I'll get a small unit, withtimer/automatic functions for breakfasts or lunch [soups, etc.]; until then, for quick oatmeal, there's the microwave.

    Suggest you follow everyone's advice and get a quality unit with included built-in timing functions to rest easy.
  • mjbnj0001
    mjbnj0001 Posts: 1,268 Member
    Tulip9 wrote: »
    They sell bags for the slow cooker. Totally worth it. It helps so I barely have to rinse the pot before putting it away!

    These are great! Too bad there isn't a Nobel Prize for Cooking. Whoever invented these bags would get one.
  • mjbnj0001
    mjbnj0001 Posts: 1,268 Member
    DX2JX2 wrote: »
    aeloine wrote: »
    BRILLIANT thread!

    I PANIC at the thought of using a slow cooker.

    I'm more afraid of my pressure cooker. I still wince every time I have to get close to it on the stove.

    Love the pressure cooker, and we have one of the traditional "jiggle top" stovetop ones. I'm increasingly tempted to look at the Instant Pot or other newfangled models "that do 'everything'."

    I stove the pressure cooker next to the slow cooker so they can fight it out over whichever I'm going to use on a given day (mostly in the cooler seasons when I'm not outside grilling).
  • Azdak
    Azdak Posts: 8,281 Member
    mjbnj0001 wrote: »
    DX2JX2 wrote: »
    aeloine wrote: »
    BRILLIANT thread!

    I PANIC at the thought of using a slow cooker.

    I'm more afraid of my pressure cooker. I still wince every time I have to get close to it on the stove.

    Love the pressure cooker, and we have one of the traditional "jiggle top" stovetop ones. I'm increasingly tempted to look at the Instant Pot or other newfangled models "that do 'everything'."

    I stove the pressure cooker next to the slow cooker so they can fight it out over whichever I'm going to use on a given day (mostly in the cooler seasons when I'm not outside grilling).

    I had separate slow cooker, pressure cooker, and rice cooker. Couple of years ago, my pressure cooker died, and I got a Black Friday/coupon discount for a Fagor multicooker that performs all of those functions. It works really well and I find that I use the pressure cooker more and more for slow cooker recipes--taste is the same, but it takes less time.

    I keep the slow cooker around because the multicooker is not big enough for things like chili. It's an 8 quart size, but I make a LOT of chili ;-)

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