Pressure Cooker

[Dorothy rouse]

Pressure Cooker

Slow cookers are very useful, especially in winter, and if you're out all day. I don't use mine much now,main advice is to use less liquid / stock etc, than you normally would, otherwise goes very 'soupy', and everything falls apart.


DottyR

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

Thanks for the tip Dotty. You might just have saved me from serving up 'mush'

Bren, at least when SWMBO questions my purchase, I can tell her it is a 'multi function' device for cooking meals and storing things.

[shirlthegirl43]

I have a wonderful recipe for chocolate melt in the middle pudding for the slow cooker. Will try to remember to post it up when I get my lappy back from younger son at the weekend.

[veggiechicken]

I've got a slow cooker but it doesn't get used not even sure why but its handy for keeping the clean dish cloths in

I bought one, thinking that it would be good to use with the solar panels - cooking for free - but I'm just not organised enough to think about an evening meal at breakfast

[veggiechicken]

Re Slow cookers - I'm sure I read that you can use them to make bread in - or am I befuddled as usual

[Alison]

You could probably prove bread in them on low but they'd be no good for cooking it. Use ours mainly for casseroles which benefit from all day cooking - lovely to come in at night and smell the food all ready after a long day at work. Did a ham hock the other day too and then made pea and ham soup with the stock. Real bargain.

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

I have a wonderful recipe for chocolate melt in the middle pudding for the slow cooker. Will try to remember to post it up when I get my lappy back from younger son at the weekend.

Please, please do Shirley. I will be in the good books if I present something like that.

[BertieFox]

1. Do pay the extra for a stainless steel one.
2. Don't imagine that you can cook pulses from dry in just a few minutes. All pulses need to be soaked slowly to be rehydrated before cooking, no matter how you cook them. I have had plenty of experience of eating chewy and hard beans from pressure cooking!
3. Pressure cookers DO save lots of time, especially with stews and meat on the bone.
4. Slow cookers have their uses too, and cost less to run. It's all a question of planning ahead.
5. With many years of experience, I would always opt for the slow cooker option which means starting things to cook the night before if you are a busy working person who wants to find a hot and perfectly cooked meal ready for when you get back from work.

[PAULW]

White bread slow cooker recipe slow cooker white bread recipe

[veggiechicken]

Thanks Paul My memory isn't as addled as I thought

[Alison]

Well you learn something everyday!

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

But has anyone tried it?

[BertieFox]

I am sure it will be bread, but not as we know it, Jim!

[Bren In Pots]

I've been looking on google and folks say you you end up with a flatter soft crust loaf so not for me. So I won't be giving it a go and anyway I bake a couple of times a week and always seem to fill my oven with other stuff at the same time. Just lately its rice pud and roasted toms.