Slow cooker

[Anonymous No.11727331]

hit me with your best recipes for the crock pot, /ck/

[Anonymous No.11727364]

Crock pots suck and people who cook in them don't know shit about food.

Just a gross under or over-cooked mess, physically impossible to get any good results, and overrun with "quick and easy shitpiles my husband will actually eat!" type of people who would be better off going to McDonalds.

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

[Anonymous No.11727368]

>>11727364
>Crock pots suck and people who cook in them don't know shit about food
Seems like an extremely retarded point of view, which doesn't surprise me from 4chan.

[Anonymous No.11727370]

>>11727364
>my hubby will actually eat

FTFY

[Anonymous No.11727373]

whole turkey heh

[Anonymous No.11727436]

>>11727364

[Anonymous No.11727454]

>>11727364
While I agree that a lot of crock pot recipes are shit for lazy people who can't be bothered to cook, part of what you wrote is just plain wrong.

>>Just a gross under or over-cooked mess, physically impossible to get any good results
That's logically inconsistent. There is clearly a time between "undercooked" and "overcooked" which is correct. Don't blame the appliance for you being too careless to get the timing correct.

[Anonymous No.11727480]

>>11727364
You can make decent food in a slow cooker if you brown your meats and sauté your veggies in a different pan, but at that might you might as well use an enamaled cast iron Dutch oven and do everything in that.

[Anonymous No.11727484]

>>11727331
The other day I tried something really new, Ethiopean food. and no it's not an empty plate.

try this recipe for Key Wat, the national dish. The slower cooked the better:
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/key-wat-ethiopian-spicy-stewed-beef-5791e411f1593fba38d1c11a

The spice mix is this one. I like to mix my own so there aren't too many cloves:
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/ethiopian-spice-mix-berbere-104015

[Anonymous No.11727503]

>>11727331
Here's a really good recipe I found a while ago that seems to have stood the test of time:
Get some stuff
Throw it in
Turn it on for a few hours
Enjoy your bucket of heated food slop

[Anonymous No.11727505]

2 lb. boneless chicken thighs
1 jar salsa
1 package cream cheese

Cook on low all day, shred, serve over rice or pasta or potatoes.

[Anonymous No.11727528]

>>11727364
garbage opinion anon, literally 99% off all food in the world is prepared and cooked this way throughout history. Cooking food quickly is a modern invention thanks to complex technology like multi ring burners.
>inb4 history is horrible and everyone died when they are 30 why should I eat like these old fags
All modern recipes you like have likely got their origins in cooking slowly in a pot with a heavy lid or even sealed with a special mechanism and left to cook for 8 hours like this baby. Don't like stew? Don't like curry? Don't like lamb shank? Don't like ratatoullie? kys.

[Anonymous No.11727537]

>>11727364
Spoken like a true NEET who don't know the responsibilities to having an actual job
Tell us about your opinion on rice cooker too, faggot

[Anonymous No.11727545]

>>11727528
see
>>11727480
No reason to use a slow cooker when you have an actual heavy pot. I guess an instant pot is okay because you can actually sear in those.

[Anonymous No.11727558]

>>11727545
that wasn't the original post. don't know if you are the same anon or not but the idea of avoiding a crock pot is dumb. they are jsut electric versions of a dutch oven, and are safer if you have a gas stove. The anon didn't even say they aer reducdant or unitaskers, he said they make filthy slop food. So that wasn't even the main point of that garbage post.

[Anonymous No.11727570]

>>11727558
A covered Dutch oven in a hot oven is safer than a crockpot sitting on your counter. And they do make filthy slop food unless you use another pan to prepare your ingredients before you put it in the pot, which is not necessary if you have a Dutch oven

[Anonymous No.11727584]

>>11727570
not clear in the post. anon said nothing about prep or moaned about having to do it in two stages. by that logic, he must be really upset about having to chew through a whole onion everytime he eats them or why his carrots are never properly cooked thanks to the fact they are whole when he boils them.

[Anonymous No.11727587]

>>11727558
>they are jsut electric versions of a dutch oven
This is not true, for several reasons. I can sear in any dutch oven. You cannot sear your meats in most slow cookers (though there are some models which do have that function; the instant pot is one) Likewise, I can put my dutch oven in my oven, heat the fuck out of it (500F) and bake bread in it. I can't do that with my crock pot.

I agree that they are't unitaskers, but to assert they are identical to a dutch oven is just plain wrong.

[Anonymous No.11727599]

>>11727364
Its unironically the best method for making shredded chicken, pork, etc.

[Anonymous No.11727606]

>>11727587
that wasn't the anon's criticism though. He said they are for people happy to serve up slop. Maybe you need a frying pan to brown your meat first, maybe that's a down side but here is what I am reading:
>gross under or over-cooked mess
>shitpiles
>better off going to McDonalds
that post is a garbage run through of half-reasons why the food quality is crap. Nothing about too much prep.

[Anonymous No.11727607]

>>11727584
It’s not about stages, because you still have to remove your meat before you sweat/sauté your vegetables and aromatics. It’s about having to clean two different cooking vessels when you could have just done it all in one. Why not just use the vessel that lets you do it all, rather than use one that requires another one to make decent food? It just doesn’t make sense.

[Anonymous No.11727612]

>>11727505
i made something very similar to this but i added some extra veggies and spices and threw it into a tortilla. turned out pretty well imo
>>11727545
i use a slow cooker because sometimes i dont feel like getting home from work and only then start preparing food. i'll often prepare what can be prepared the day before and stick it in the fridge so it's all ready to go into the pot before I leave for work. when i get home there's a hot meal waiting for me and all i really have to do is clean the plate and any utensils i use

[Anonymous No.11727614]

>>11727454
this
>>11727599
this, and a great way to cook a moist brisket as I recently discovered.

[Anonymous No.11727615]

>>11727599
No, that would be a Dutch oven or a smoking pit.

[Anonymous No.11727621]

>>11727607
>gross under or over-cooked mess
>shitpiles
>better off going to McDonalds
nothing about kitchen clean up in that post anon. I never said they were peak convenience but to say these devices turn out shit food is to be a thoroughly retarded cook who is blaming his tools.

[Anonymous No.11727628]

>>11727606
The vast majority of retards using slow cookers don’t bother to do the steps necessary for a good braise / stew. They just throw it all in the pot and eat the slop that comes out.

[Anonymous No.11727633]

>>11727364
it's hilarious how upset some anons get about people not making perfect food on here when half the threads on this board are debates about which fast food is best, at least the people using crock pots are actually cooking.

[Anonymous No.11727634]

>>11727621
see
>>11727628
You know it’s true. How many shitty crockpot recipes actually include the steps necessary to build flavor? How are you going to build a fond in a fucking slow cooker?

[Anonymous No.11727639]

>>11727628
Agreed completely.

But why are we blaming the inanimate object for that and not the fucktards who are operating it?

[Anonymous No.11727648]

>>11727639
If they had a Dutch oven instead, they would be able to do a one pot meal that actually tastes good. The tool facilitates bad cooking practices.

[Anonymous No.11727656]

>>11727628
I'm sure they do. More evidence the anon is retarded and nothing to do with his slow cooker.

>>11727634
sure there are lots of shitty recipes and things it can't do. Can't barbeque in a tea kettle either, doesn't mena you write a rage post and talk about how boiling water didn't sear your shrimp nicely.
>gross under or over-cooked mess
anyone who writes that is clearly not prepping or cooking properly and is a brainlet. OP asked for good recipes for his device and we get man children in the thread talking about how they can't get to grips with their household appliances.

[Anonymous No.11727660]

>>11727656
You haven’t answered my one repeating question: why buy a slow cooker instead of a Dutch oven? A Dutch oven can do everything a slow cooker does and more.

[Anonymous No.11727662]

>>11727364
I thought the point of crock pots and pressure cookers were to make soups and stews. What's makes that different from using a pot?

[Anonymous No.11727663]

>>11727648
You didn't answer my question, anon.

There's nothing stopping someone from browning meats seperately and cooking them in a slow cooker, other than the laziness of the person doing the work (or not doing it, as the case may be). Again: why blame the appliance for the decisions made by a poor cook?

I've often used a slow cooker to prepare stew while I was out at work. I seared off the meats in a skillet, deglazed it , then poured the liquid down in the crock pot before using it. Did that get more pans dirty than just a single dutch oven? Sure. But that wasn't the point.

[Anonymous No.11727673]

>>11727663
Literally the whole point of a slow cooker is to make one pot meals, which it cannot do well.

[Anonymous No.11727675]

>>11727662
You can do every single step of making a stew in a regular pot. The same cannot be said of a slow cooker.

[Anonymous No.11727678]

>>11727537
Are you really being proud of not having time to prepare yourself a human meal?

[Anonymous No.11727680]

>>11727662
The point of a pressure cooker is that it's faster than using a pot, and it doesn't lose any water or flavor to evaporation. Generally speaking you can cook something in a pressure cooker in 1/3 the time it would take compared to a normal pot. That stew that normally takes you 3 hours to cook? Pressure cooker can do it in 1 hour.

the point of a slow cooker or crock pot is that it is meant to be used unattended. It can have food cooking while you're out at work. Like its name suggests it is much slower than cooking at a simmer. A secondary function of crock pots is that they're good for keeping a dish warm for serving, making them popular for parties and potlucks and whatnot.

>>11727660
Different tools for different jobs. I use the dutch oven for most things. When I need to keep a big-ass pot of cheese dip hot for a party I use the crock pot.

[Anonymous No.11727689]

>>11727673
>Literally the whole point of a slow cooker is to make one pot meals
But that's wrong.

The whole point is that it can be operated without attention, while you're out at work or school or whatever, and that it can keep food warm for serving.

[Anonymous No.11727697]

>>11727680
That is just about the only acceptable use for a slow cooker, but a chafing dish is cheaper.

[Anonymous No.11727700]

>>11727689
Then it should have multiple compartments for different things to make at the same time, and not one big bowl that everything has to be mixed in

[Anonymous No.11727702]

>>11727689
People buy them because they can throw everything in one pot.

[Anonymous No.11727708]

>>11727660
I didn't reply to retard anon to tell him why slow cookers are better than dutch ovens. I don't think they are. I don't give a shit. But slow cookers don't make sloppy messes, bad cooks do.

[Anonymous No.11727711]

>>11727700
Some of them do have compartmented "crocks". this one lady in my office always brings in the same one for potlucks, it's shaped like a football and has 4 compartments in it.

[Anonymous No.11727722]

>>11727708
Slow cookers are a tool used almost exclusively by bad cooks. You can do a lot with an instantpot if you don’t have access to a real kitchen, but that’s not the majority of people who use them, and most slow cookers aren’t as versatile as the instant pot.

[Anonymous No.11727731]

>>11727373
someone reply to my funny comment

[Anonymous No.11727745]

>>11727722
>Slow cookers are a tool used almost exclusively by bad cooks
that might be true, hell it might be 100% of them. But. that. is. not. anons. post.

He said they only make slop. No. He makes slop. If you learn the faults and the pros of your slow cooker, you will not make slop. That's literally the only reason why I posted in this thread, and I have re-explained that a dozen times now.

[Anonymous No.11727754]

>>11727745
He was right, though. You can only make slop if you exclusively use the slow cooker. It cannot make good food on its own.

[Anonymous No.11727762]

>>11727745
This is why you don't argue with autists.

[Anonymous No.11727775]

>>11727754
Nobody other than you has mentioned the word "exclusively".

[Anonymous No.11727779]

>>11727775
Show me some popular slow cooker recipes on the internet that use anything other than a slow cooker to cook the food.

[Anonymous No.11727785]

>>11727779
Wow, the goalposts keep moving!

Look, I do agree with you that the average slow cooker recipe is shit. But I think it's fucking retarded to blame the tool for it rather than the cook.

[Anonymous No.11727793]

>>11727785
Look, I’m sure you’ve invested a lot of money into a slow cooker company, and you’re just trying to protect your investment through blatant shilling, but at a certain point you have to realize your financial interests are blinding you to the fact that slow cookers are terrible, and they do nothing that can’t be done better by other tools.

[Anonymous No.11727795]

>>11727793
>shilling
Idiot.

[Anonymous No.11727797]

>>11727754
see >>11727775
he said his slow cooker is a bad boy, it makes shit food.
Nothing to do with how many other tools he needs.
By that logic, skillets are shit cos how am I supposed to cut my onion, it tastes really pungeant when I fry it whole.

>>11727762
I assume you mean the anons I replied to, if so, yes I should know this lesson by now.
If you mean me then fuck you too.

[Anonymous No.11727800]

>>11727793
>and they do nothing that can’t be done better by other tools.
I'm not denying that at all. I agree 100%.

And now you've moved the goalposts yet again!

[Anonymous No.11727802]

>>11727722
Bullshit, it's just a convenient way to slow cook a braise, stew or soup. If you sear the meat and sweat the vegetables beforehand it's the same as simmering on your stove but you can leave the house. But yes you can make shitty food with it just like you can on a stove top.

[Anonymous No.11727806]

>>11727797
A skillet would be shit if you had to use another pan to cook the food before you put it in the skillet in order to get any kind of good results.

[Anonymous No.11727812]

>>11727779
Of course there is a boom in books by non chefs that think they can dump ingredients into a slow cooker. It's a device that is ripe for get-rich-quick authors, as they assume this is how you cook it. It's a low barrier to entry. So what? quantity of good recipes =/= usefulness of device.

[Anonymous No.11727814]

OP here, not terribly sure what i expected but it definitely wasn't 50 replies arguing about whether crock pots are useless or not
props to the one anon who posted about his chicken thighs i guess

[Anonymous No.11727817]

>>11727802
You should be braising / stewing in the oven, and it’s way safer to leave the house with a Dutch oven in your oven than with a hot electrical cooking device sitting out on your counter.

[Anonymous No.11727819]

This thread is terrible

[Anonymous No.11727823]

>>11727814
Get a Dutch oven, retard. Pawn the slow cooker or give it to someone who doesn’t have a real kitchen.

[Anonymous No.11727837]

>>11727806
and is the skillet therefore shit because it requies a chopping board for me to cut the ingredients on? I never once in the thread said that a slow cooker is a wonderful breakthrough is gastronomic technology. I said that the guy that complains his stew came out shit is a retard if he says "this slow cooker is bullshit man".

>>11727819
agreed, I think I posted the only recipe in the thread and OP has now nothing to cook. All he wanted was some tasty stew or some shit.

[Anonymous No.11727851]

>>11727364
cheaper cuts of meats take hours of cooking to break down the proteins and become edible. you're not going to just magically make shredded pork shoulder or stocks in a few minutes. go watch some more rachael ray.

[Anonymous No.11727853]

>>11727837
Cutting and cooking are not the same thing. With a Dutch oven, you still have to cut the food, but you have to cook it in something else first before it can ever be good in the slow cooker. You can cook good food using only a skillet as a cooking vessel. Your false equivalency between cooking vessels and prep tools is nonsense.
If he had asked for some good stews or braises, I would have helped him. They’re what I make most nights. But I use a Dutch oven, not a slow cooker.

[Anonymous No.11727855]

>>11727851
That’s what a Dutch oven is for.

[Anonymous No.11727856]

>>11727817
>and it’s way safer to leave the house with a Dutch oven in your oven

What makes you say that? Do you have an documentation to support it? ....because every oven I have owned states clearly in the owner's manual not to operate it unattended. Furthermore, a plug-in applance that's limited by a normal wall circuit can do a lot less damage if there is a failure of some kind than a very powerful oven plugged into a much more powerful specialty outlet can. I dunno about you, but if a thermostat fails I'd much rather be dealing with a 300 watt slow cooker than my 4500 watt oven.

I'm 100% agreed that the dutch oven is the superior tool, but that particular argument smells like bullshit to me.

[Anonymous No.11727864]

>>11727853
>pasta is shit food cos after I boil it I either get water on my plate or use a colander.
>why are sauce pans so watery and shit.
Your false equivalency between shit food and flawed devices is nonsense.

>If he had asked for some good stews or braises, I would have helped him
basically what he did, but you and others gave OP a load of abuse about his choice of appliance. How about you post your grandma's stew recipe and say "remember OP, cook off that beef first, slow cooks fall short when it comes to browning your meat"

faggot thread this.

[Anonymous No.11727867]

>>11727528
>multi ring burners

Gtfo

[Anonymous No.11727870]

>>11727331
i used store bough bbq sauce, but the spice rub for this recipe is the best i've tried so far for shredded pork.

https://civilizedcavemancooking.com/recipes/pork/crockpot-pulled-pork/

[Anonymous No.11727878]

>>11727856
Obviously you can’t be gone all day like with a slow cooker, but you can leave the oven for the 2-3 hours it takes to cook and it will be fine.
>>11727864
5 dollars have been deposited into your account.

[Anonymous No.11727885]

>>11727867
why?

>>11727878
literally no response from the fag. colour me shocked

[Anonymous No.11727887]

>>11727885
t. Crockpot shill

[Anonymous No.11727896]

>>11727887
kek, makes up imaginary illuminati for crock pots to deflect the fact I said only what is obvious, that a device didn't plate up your shit food, you did that.

[Anonymous No.11727903]

>>11727823
thanks but i already have a dutch oven

[Anonymous No.11727908]

>>11727896
I’ve never owned a crock pot or slow cooker, and I’ve successfulky weened my girlfriend off of hers.
>>11727903
So use that instead. The other night I browned some brats and then sautéed some onions and peppers. Added a little tomato paste, some oyster sauce, some celery seed and caraway, then deglazed with a can of beer. Then I added the sausages back to the pot and put it in a 325F oven for an hour.

[Anonymous No.11727942]

>>11727908
good for you for not owning or owning a utensil. the anon in the original psot I criticised did, or if it was you, you moaned about how poor they are. Either way, you and/or anon are remedial.

[Anonymous No.11727951]

>>11727505
unless you're saving the bones for stock, you should leave them in to add more flavor.

[Anonymous No.11727955]

>>11727942
How do you know he did?

[Anonymous No.11727962]

Why is this board so autistic about crockpots?

You can make some fucking awesome pulled pork in one. 1 Boston butt, salt, black pepper, cumin, oregano, garlic, 2 lemons juiced, 2 oranges juiced and a chopped onion. Set on low for 10 hours and come home to tender delicious pork.

[Anonymous No.11727964]

>>11727962
That pork would be a lot better if you browned it first or did it in a smoking pit like a real man.

[Anonymous No.11728143]

>>11727908
You must be truly desperate

[Anonymous No.11728146]

>>11727373
Reply fuckers

[Anonymous No.11728161]

>>11727962
I just made some. Makes me laugh it actually makes people seethe here.

[Anonymous No.11728174]

>>11727331
step 1: throw it out or sell it to some other mark
step 2: learn to cook

[Anonymous No.11728183]

>>11727962
Because they can’t afford one

[Anonymous No.11728190]

>>11727962
oh my god a 2nd recipe only 80 replies in
truly you are based anon

[Anonymous No.11728200]

>>11727855
Braaaaaaap

[Anonymous No.11728241]

>>11728190
Third recipe. Learn to count, you crock pot using moron.

[Anonymous No.11728257]

Anyone else have a crockpot run super fucking hot new out of the box? I swear mine burns everything unless I have it on low, my warm setting is low and my hot setting is SCORCH
Also anyone ever make breads in one of these bastards? I found one for cinnamon rolls and I have a packet of yeast laying around, I'm thinking about it but don't want to waste food

[Anonymous No.11728281]

>>11728257
Yes, it’s not just you. No joke manufacturers have been making slow cookers run hotter and hotter on “low” setting over the years because they’re afraid of people getting sick from undercooked food and suing them. I got my croc pot from a thrift store and it was made in the 70s. Works like a charm.

[Anonymous No.11728293]

>>11728281
No joke, I miss my crockpot I got for $3 at a garage sale that was missing a leg over this namebrand thing, I should've returned it. I might just get a new one at goodwill

[Anonymous No.11728310]

>>11727634
You sound like a cook who thinks he’s the shit but is actually just shit.

[Anonymous No.11728313]

>>11728310
I’m not a professional cook. The best way to start hating something is to make it your job.

[Anonymous No.11728316]

>>11727673
The point of a slow cooker is to cook slowly. It does this excellently while also using less electricity than a stove would use for the same purpose.

[Anonymous No.11728320]

>>11728316
Stoves don’t use electricity.

[Anonymous No.11728324]

>>11728316
the electricity savings are moot. Who cares if it saves you $0.02 worth of electricity when you can't even build fucking fond in it?

[Anonymous No.11728329]

>>11728313
I cook for 55 hours a week, have for 10 years now.
I don’t hate cooking in the slightest.
I love it enough so that I do it for most of my waking hours.

[Anonymous No.11728355]

>>11728329
Most people don’t have that mentality.

[Anonymous No.11728418]

>>11727331

[Anonymous No.11728437]

>>11728418
>15 disgusting slops o’ shit that would be vastly improved by the addition of the basic steps any half-competent home cook would normally take for a braise
Hard pass

[Anonymous No.11728488]

>>11727364
>t. expert ramen cooker

[Anonymous No.11728496]

>>11727364
lol listen to this crock of shit

[Anonymous No.11728498]

>>11728488
>>11728496
samefag

[Anonymous No.11728501]

>>11728437
Did a slow cooker fuck your high school crush or something? Jesus dude

[Anonymous No.11728511]

>>11728418
saved, thanks anon

[Anonymous No.11728515]

>>11728501
>spend whole thread saying that slow cookers facilitate recipes that don’t build flavor and cut corners because the slow cooker isn’t capable of anything but simmering and boiling
>someone posts 15 recipes that don’t build flavor and cut corners because the slow cooker isn’t capable of anything but simmering and boiling

[Anonymous No.11728529]

>>11728501
>>11728515(Me)
I mean, fuck, all of those recipes could easily be improved by searing your meats and sautéing your vegetables and adding things at different times depending on how long they take to cook, but that would require another pan and the recipes wouldn’t be one pot dishes.

[Anonymous No.11728592]

>>11728515
>spending a whole thread shitting on a tool for not doing everything a stove can
>bitches about fond and “building flavor” like he knows what he’s talking about.

Fucking hobbyists.

[Anonymous No.11728598]

>>11728529
No fucking shit, people using those recipes are aiming for convenience, not the finest iteration of that dish are you stupid or purposefully missing the point?

[Anonymous No.11728605]

>>11728437
I guess they're meant for working families rather than a single guy who has too much time on his hands like yourself.

[Anonymous No.11728636]

>>11728592
The fond is what you get after you deglaze your pan, which you cannot do in a standard slow cooker because you can’t fucking brown anything in it. You build flavor by exposing your meat and vegetables to moderate-to-high heat in the presence of oil, which you just can’t do if you’ve already added your cooking liquid. I said that basically all recipes for slow cookers just throw everything in, and that dipshit posted 15 of that exact kind of recipe at once.
>>11728598
It’s lazy bullshit for people with low standards. Browning your meat is the bare fucking minimum of a stew or braise.

[Anonymous No.11728661]

>>11728501
There's a horde of autists in this place who literally have nothing better to do than to incessantly complain about shit they don't like.
I'm pretty sure they've never posted anything useful either.

[Anonymous No.11728665]

>>11728661
I’ve posted tons of useful information in this thread and in others. You fucking suck.

[Anonymous No.11728702]

>>11727331
The real question is why haven't you dumfucks upgraded to the instapot, that cooks the same kinds of foods as the cuckpot, except better, and in 20 minutes instead of 6 hours.

[Anonymous No.11728720]

>>11728636
Why can’t you get through your thick skull some people have different needs than you and find value in croc pots? No one was claiming you can make gourmet food with them, why did you bother entering this thread to insist otherwise? Maybe tasty/soccer mom tier recipes are the ceiling but so what? Get the fuck over yourself.

[Anonymous No.11728726]

>>11728720
There’s a middle ground between gourmet food and no-effort trash.

[Anonymous No.11728742]

>>11728726
Missing the point retard

[Anonymous No.11728757]

>>11728742
Sorry for having literally any standards at all.

[Anonymous No.11728762]

>>11728757
One day you’ll pull your head out of your ass and learn what subjectivity is.

[Anonymous No.11728782]

>>11728762
Boiling all of your ingredients for six hours without putting any color on them at all is objectively a bad way to cook.

[Anonymous No.11728951]

>>11728757
Having standards would be not cooking for other people 55 hours a week. Something only high school drop outs, drug addicts, alcoholics and felons do lmao.

[G8rH8r No.11729090]

I put a sirloin roast in there cover it with beef broth and a can of french onion soup and spices and after it cooks a while throw mushrooms and onions int there shred it all up and make French dips with the juices

[Anonymous No.11729092]

>>11728951
Wrong guy, dummy. I’m the home cook.

[Anonymous No.11729207]

>>11729090
looks dry af tbqfh

[Anonymous No.11729220]

>>11729090
That looks so goddamn dry. What did you do

[Anonymous No.11729229]

>>11728636
Browning is not the only way to develop flavor.
I already know what fondnis it’s very common knowledge.

[Anonymous No.11729236]

>>11729229
How do you build flavor by boiling everything together for 6 hours?

[Anonymous No.11729252]

holy shit the anti slowcooker faction is autistic

[Anonymous No.11729258]

>>11728636
One can brown the meat and also use a slow cooker. You’re just mad at bad recipes. Bad recipes have nothing to do with the tool itself.
Autoclaves and altoshams and holding cabinets are the same thing scaled up and they are used in gourmet restaurants world wide.
A crock pot can be very convenient for long simmer and braising dishes if one doesn’t have an induction hob or a reliable oven. They are safe and convenient and as long as your mise is proper you can make excellent meals with it.

[Anonymous No.11729273]

I've had good results using a slow cooker instead of a dutch oven for the braise portion of bolognese recipes. Something along the lines of this: https://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-slow-cooked-bolognese-sauce-recipes-from-the-kitchn-69968

[Anonymous No.11729292]

>>11729236
.......
Have you ever made stock or made demi glacé? Or anything that braises/simmers for 3 hours or more?

Also, what is to stop you from browning your meat and then putting it in a crock pot?

You’re trying to be elitist against crock pots because soccer moms make pulled pork in them. You can sneer all you like but it’s a tool that executes it’s role very well if you apply proper techniques.

You can even hook PEDs to them and have a ghetto water bath cooker.

[Anonymous No.11729340]

>>11729258
>One can brown the meat and also use a slow cooker
Those mongoloids never do.
>>11729292
Stocks are always better with roasted meat and at least sweating the vegetables.

[Anonymous No.11729594]

>>11727660
Easy answer:
Cook unattended. The literal entire fucking point of slow cookers, anon.

[Anonymous No.11729606]

>>11728636
>brown meat in pan
>deglaze
>pour resultant juice and meat into slow cooker
What's the mental difficulty preventing you from seeing this blindingly obvious conclusion, anon

[Anonymous No.11729614]

>>11727331
Anyway, anon: just use normal stew recipes, but use a slow cooker instead of a pot, and up the cooking time by about a billion hours. Slow cooker-specific recipes really are pretty shit, but the tool itself is not.

[Anonymous No.11729627]

>>11729606
Why not just a Dutch oven for the whole thing? Why dirty two pans when one will do just fine?

[Anonymous No.11729634]

>>11729627
Because slow-cookers give you the freedom to leave them on while you do something else...pretty much forever. It's great for me as a student, personally.

[Anonymous No.11729636]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vb_0Cgfiuc&t=2s

This recipe is bretty gud.

[Anonymous No.11729924]

Take some meatballs (ground meat, onion, saltines, cheese is optional) brown them in the oven for 10 minutes on 350 Once they're browned (not cooked) layer them in your cooker
Make a buffalo style sauce with some butter, hot sauce, honey, and apricot preserves. You want enough to coat the meatballs but not have a soup. Cook on high for 2 to 3 hrs and you got sweet n spicy honey buffalo meatballs. I like to eat them with rice

[Anonymous No.11730129]

>>11727364
This is so true, i can't wait to open the replies and look at all the butthurt crock fags rationalizing their warm ceramic tubs inability to do anything worthwhile.

[Anonymous No.11730217]

>>11730129
Is pic related you?

[Anonymous No.11730260]

>>11729627
>ctrl+f dutch oven
>25 fucking times and it's all you
Breh, you have fucking problems. We get it, you don't like crock pots. Just get the faggoting hell out of here, you're not converting anyone.

[Anonymous No.11730341]

>>11727484
There's such a thing as Ethiopian food? That joke isn't as funny as it used to be.

[Anonymous No.11730548]

>>11727364
Blah, blah, blah. Bite me.

[Anonymous No.11730585]

>it’s safer to leave a Dutch oven unattended in a gas stove for 9 hours than to use a crockpot

[Anonymous No.11730776]

>>11727373
>>11727731
>>11728146
(you)

[Anonymous No.11731232]

>>11727484
Will try, thanks anon

[Anonymous No.11731263]

>>11727364
faggot alert!

[Anonymous No.11731290]

>>11727364
This anon is correct but it has nothing to do with the actual slow cooking.
It has to do with everybody that wants 'easy' slow cooker recipes is in fact a fucking retard with no tastebuds and thinks a big pile of soggy shit is "good eats"

[Anonymous No.11731303]

I always liked the paella my dad slow cookered up. He used bone in chicken and the recipe isnt the exact one since he cut the recipe out of a magazine but ill bet its pretty close. https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/recipes/a53050/slow-cooker-paella-recipe/
Also, pork shoulder, shredded and done almost any way in the slowcooker is great. Seconding other anons who suggested.

[Anonymous No.11731402]

>>11728437

>minestrone soup
>beef stroganoff
>jerk pork
>orange chicken
>pepper steak

>slops o'shit

Fuck you, the high horse you rode in on, the smith that forged its shoes, and the miner that harvested the iron ore.

[Anonymous No.11731443]

>come in the thread to see if anons have posted any recipes as I too have a slow cooker and work most of the day
>autists arguing over using a slow cooker and one anon shilling a dutch pot

Boy why do you autists hate slow cookers?

[Anonymous No.11731563]

>>11731290
Well, yeah, but we're on /ck/. If that is the mistake someone's fallen into, we can offer better advice and better recipes instead. But instead we've got a few anons telling them not to use a slow cooker because a casserole dish can do it too, and other anons pointing out that this means slow cookers can still do it as well, and nobody telling him how to do it.

[Anonymous No.11731584]

>>11727878
Oh this is just sad.

I'm gonna explain it, just for you.
If somebody wants to make good good, but they also want to leave it cooking unattended for hours (e.g. as they work), then a slow cooker with a pan to brown stuff in is a natural choice. If they do not want to leave it unattended for hours, then a casserole dish is a natural choice.

It takes two minutes to wash up a pan, anon. For many people the extra washing up is outweighed by the cooking unattended. That's why people (who cook well) choose slow cookers over casseroles.
And nobody's a shill for Big Crockpot, anon.

[Anonymous No.11731588]

>>11727364
nice post format clown

[Anonymous No.11732128]

>>11731303
>paella with no socarrat
Fuck off.
>>11731402
see
>>11728529

[Anonymous No.11732625]

>>11732128
You must be some kind of retard. How would someone working from 9 in the morning till 6 at night have the time to do all of that shit when he's at work?
At least he'd be able to come home to a hot meal cooked and ready to eat with a slow cooker.

[Anonymous No.11732755]

>>11732625
You’re literally better off eating cheap frozen food than making a half-assed crockpot recipe. It’s a waste of good ingredients.

[Anonymous No.11732775]

>>11732755
What have you got against slow cookers? I'm genuinely intrigued,

[Anonymous No.11732867]

>>11732755
Okay, first off:

>better off eating cheap frozen food
No. I don't know what third-world hellhole you live in, but I've never seen someone put Grade Q """"chicken"""" nugget-tier ground chicken or 4-month-old mashed potatoes made of shaving cream and potato flour in a crockpot. Unless crockpots magically extract all nutrients and flavor from the shit you put into them, I doubt that they're going to change as drastically as you seem to think.

Second:
>good ingredients
>crockpot

Nigger it's literally designed to cook down shitty cheap meats, crap in a can, and leftover vegetable pieces into stews, soups, and chunky sauces to put over pasta. Who the fuck tries to cook sirloin or a Thanksgiving turkey in a fucking crockpot?

Go annoy al/ck/ or Webm thread #346375. At least they deserve continuous irritation.

[Anonymous No.11732887]

>>11732867
>magically extract all nutrients and flavor
That’s generally what happens when you boil a bunch of raw ingredients for 6 hours, yes.

[Anonymous No.11732918]

>>11732867
>Nigger it's literally designed to cook down shitty cheap meats, crap in a can.

No. It's a tool which makes braises. Whether they are good or not depends on your choice of ingredients and how much work you are willing to put forth. If you dump shitty meat in there then yeah, it's going to suck. If you use good meat, take the time to sear everything first in a separate pot, then there's no reason it can't make fucking delicious food.....just like any other pot.

Don't blame the tool for the workmanship.

[Anonymous No.11732930]

>>11727364
being lazy and still getting something decent is literally the point of a crock pot you massive faggot. maybe one day if you ever get a job you will understand why people like them when they come home and their meal is ready for them

[Anonymous No.11732938]

>>11732918
>Don't blame the tool for the workmanship.

I'm arguing AGAINST the guy claiming that all crockpot food is on-par with dollar store frozen mystery meals. How the fuck did you come to the conclusion that I'm on the anti-crockpot defense force?

[Anonymous No.11732950]

>>11732887
correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't boiling shit only a problem when you strain it and the water that all the nutrients leached into is lost? crockpots don't usually call for that. wouldn't the end result be more like a stock, where the nutrients and flavor are kept in the liquid?

[Anonymous No.11732965]

>>11732938
>How the fuck did you come to the conclusion that I'm on the anti-crockpot defense force?
I didn't say you were. I simply corrected your statement that its "designed to cook down shitty meat". It's designed to perform a particular function (braising). It's not designed to suit a particular quality of meat.

>>I'm arguing against the guy claiming that all crockpot food is on-par with dollar store frozen mystery meals

That guy is right, if you're talking about how most people choose to use crock pots. He's wrong if you are talking about how they COULD be used as opposed to how they are TYPICALLY used.

[Anonymous No.11733012]

>>11732887
>cook for six hours in a casserole dish
>it's good
>cook for six hours in a slow cooker
>it's suddenly bad

[Anonymous No.11733023]

>>11733012
>he calls a Dutch oven a casserole dish
Clueless

[Anonymous No.11733056]

>>11733023
Got a problem, Burger?

[Anonymous No.11733087]

>PREP STAGE
Salt and pepper your diced beef
Fry small strips of bacon, then place in slow cooker
Brown meat in the pan, then place in slow cooker
Pour off most of the fat
Add: 2 quartered onions, 2 cloves (in the onion), 2 sprigs of parsley, sage, and thyme, 2 chunked carrots, a bay leaf and a few peppercorns. Fry until browned
Simmer 400ml of red wine until it's reduced by two thirds, then scrape up all the brown bits in the bottom. Pour into the slow cooker.
>SLOW COOKER STAGE, THE BIT YOU'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR
Add: 3 diced tomatoes, the chopped cloves of 1 small head of garlic, 1 strip of orange zest, and enough stock to cover 3/4 of the layer of beef
Fucking YEET that "slow" setting on your slow cooker, and wait for like six to eight hours
Let it settle for a bit, then skim the fat off
Remove the peppercorns, bay leaf and cloves if you can be bothered
Salt to taste
Sprinkle with parsley, if you want.

[Anonymous No.11733102]

>>11733087
Nice. Too bad 99% of slow cooker users and recipes omit the prep stage entirely. they just dump it all in then switch it on.

[Anonymous No.11733215]

>>11733102
That is indeed too bad. It is the duty of us special few to enlighten them wherever they are encountered.

[Anonymous No.11733230]

>>11731443
OP here
i am actually fucking shocked to see that this shitshow of a thread is still going
props to the handful of anons who posted recipes but the slow cooker autist can fuck off desu

[Anonymous No.11733421]

>>11727364
Great for making chili’s and stews tbqh, prep everything the night before and it takes not even two minutes to throw everything in the pot before you leave for work, I prefer Dutch ovens honestly but I’m not leaving a gas stone on all day unattended with my animals in the house

[Anonymous No.11733433]

>>11733421
Would you care to share a few recipes?

[Anonymous No.11733534]

>>11733433
Have you considered a dutch oven?