/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.14759846]

>make soup in a crockpot
>it sucks
>make soup in a pot in the oven
>it's amazing
why does this happen

[Anonymous No.14759866]

you don't know how to use a crock pot i guess

[Anonymous No.14759881]

>>14759846
>use a dutch oven
>it makes everything amazing

[Anonymous No.14759888]

>>14759881
I'm planning on buying one, seems like the way to go
>>14759866
educate me

[Anonymous No.14759908]

>>14759846
Because they're a crock of shit

[Anonymous No.14760035]

https://www.seriouseats.com/2016/10/why-pressure-cookers-are-better-than-slow-cookers.html

[Anonymous No.14760092]

>>14760035
>use pressure cooker
>disolves everything

[Anonymous No.14760126]

Anyone have the slow cooker copypasta?

[Anonymous No.14760127]

>>14759846

i don't understand the crockpot... i just put meat in a pot and fill it halfway with water and simmer for a few hours until collagen breaks down into gelatin and meat is fork tender

what's the point of it, just to have it cooking out of the way of the stove? it seems like you're buying a device that you don't need

[Anonymous No.14760129]

>>14759888
>educate me
You need to pre-brown anything going into a crock pot.
That said, they're not great for making soup. Soup making is usually a 1 hour deal; a crockpot on high might get everything cooked in around 2 hours, but that's going to mean all your veg is soggy.

Use it to its strength - long, slow cooks. Making stocks, where you drain and discard the solids after they've leached out all the goodness.
Holding warm beverages for ladle service (cider, cocoa for trick or treaters or carolers + bottle of rye on the side to spike dad's; reheated chicken soup on a potluck).

The only soup that really does well start to finish in a crockpot is onion soup; it takes 7 hours, but it's stupidly easy as you only stir like 3 times (+1h, +4h, and at the end).
Everything else needs browning first, and you may as well just do it in a soup pot on the stove or oven.

[Anonymous No.14760140]

>>14760127
It's so you can leave the house without worry of burning it down. It is also for hosting parties so you can put food and a spoon in it to let people help themselves.

[Anonymous No.14760148]

>>14760035
>why a fork is better than a bowl of soup

[Anonymous No.14760150]

>>14760127
>device that you don't need
Strictly speaking, you are correct.
There are some dishes that adapt well to 6 hours of unattended cooking, and some people are uncomfortable leaving the stove simmering while they're away from the house (at work, doing errands, out in the fields, whatever).
They make stockmaking trivial. Out of the way, not on a burner, slowly simmering and reducing, can run 12 hours without running dry and get a lot of flavor out of your veg trim.
They are quite popular in the midwest, where potlucks happen. Put your cheese dip in it, and hot nachos all the way through the game.

[Anonymous No.14760171]

>>14760129
I made potato and ham soup
It sucks in my crock pot but it's fucking awesome in my pot in the oven
I know to brown my meat, I'm not a retard I just hate this fucking waste of money
so you're saying its good for stocks?

[Anonymous No.14760174]

>>14760171

i know if you braise food in the oven you get the true braise effect of stewing and steam from the bottom and toasting from the top

[Anonymous No.14760233]

You sound like a working class chump. I bet you thought it would be a great "investment", how you would wake up to a warm, healthy breakfast to start off your long day. Maybe, you even had a couple thoughts about all the other nifty little uses you could find for the thing, how it would help you cook healthier meals in general, shed a couple pounds off the old gut, boost your confidence around work and with the ladies. Yeah, maybe that slow cooker would start your life cooking again, wouldn't it? I can see your strained hands holding the box and reading through it carefully at the store. A little bit pricey, but you're the type of guy who thinks everything is more than you can spend, aren't you. And look what happened to you. Look what the slow cooker did to you. Fucked you over, and made you clean it like a useless bitch. You don't even fucking like oatmeal. Piece of shit, you've been repeating those three words your whole life, haven't you. Yeah, how was work after that piece of shit fucked you over? I bet it was on your mind the whole day, you probably didn't say shit to nobody. Can't be telling people about your mistakes. How your little fix yourself plan, failed you. Don't want people to start thinking you're the failure. You're the piece of shit, all along. You don't want that do you? You don't want to be the piece of shit everybody secretly whispers about, do you? Was your father a piece of shit like you? I bet he never had a slow cooker. He had a woman, a house, a damn good job. I bet it's slow cooking you the fuck alive, isn't it. Comparing yourself to him. How one day when all the steam runs our of your life, you'll discover how you're nothing more than burnt shit to be scrapped off and thrown in the trash.

[Anonymous No.14760242]

>>14760233
An anime bully typed this post

[Anonymous No.14760251]

>>14760127
If you have a gas stove this question doesn't even come up, you can't leave the gas on for like 12 hours when you're asleep if you want a high life expectancy

PLUS with a slow cooker you don't need to babysit it constantly to make it not stick to the bottom, with a pot on a stove you do

[Anonymous No.14760259]

>>14760251
Protip: put your dutchie in the oven

[Anonymous No.14760299]

>>14760242
>reply to stale pasta

[Anonymous No.14760313]

>>14760259
My tiny portable oven only goes up to 2 hours :(

t. apartmentcuck

[Anonymous No.14760455]

>>14760171
Oven cooks from all sides.
Crockpot basically simmers like a stove.
Crockpots have a place, but they share it with the stove/induction hob/hotplate/instant pot.

Stocks are well suited; you want it to simmer for hours and you don't care if it gets soft. Pot roasts are another decent application, but you may prefer the oven since the texture is somewhat better. Some people use them to make tomato sauces or demiglace. Some people do beans.

Anything where "simmer for 4+ hours, stirring occasionally" is an instruction, a crockpot is a fine candidate. There may be a faster way, but the crockpot likely simmers slower and is more forgiving of forgetfulness as you Live Your Best Life.

[Anonymous No.14760537]

>>14759846
I cook with Jesus in my kitchen. Delicious home cooking.

God damn, rest in piss Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

[Anonymous No.14761901]

>>14759846
Because it's a load of crock!

[Anonymous No.14761911]

>>14760313
>a time limit on your oven
Wtf

[Anonymous No.14762110]

>>14760259
By using an oven you just waste a lot more energy compared to a stove or slowcooker.