Crockpot or Slow Cooker, you prefer which one?

Robb.hisself said:
Either a crook pot or slow cooker would only be owned by someone who didn't have a sturdy stove top and pans. Gas always cooks faster, better, and more precisely than when cooking with electric. So I can't see any advantage to them. Just another appliance to buy, clean, and take up space in the kitchen. A good stove and pans are enough.
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Rob - over here in the UK, unless people own ranges, ie Agas, (not sure if over there you have those without Googling), most of us use gas hobs for 'hob' cooking (your stove top(?) ie where you use pans - and electricity for ovens cooking baking, roasting, casseroles etc.

I've a slow cooker and make casseroles, when I can be bothered. Casseroles or stews, need a long time in the oven on a low heat, which can work out costly electricity wise.
Doing them in the slow cooker takes longer, but costs not much more than a light bulb to run. I allow 8hrs for mine.

TBH, I prefer the taste of oven casseroles and I can add dumplings (think our dumplings are different to yours and slow cooker dumplings are lousy) but it's way cheaper on the elecrticity bills to use the slow cooker.

Hope I'm making some sense here.... I find it difficult sometimes knowing the way we do things or have in the UK is not the same in US.
 

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dilettante said:
The last one I had didn't offer any practical method of cleaning it. I swore to give it up until I found a deal on one where the "liner" came out and was fully immersible.
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You are going to thank me for this one, @dilettante ... :giggle: try the Reynolds slow cooker liners. Seriously, it's a "life changer" as the young 'uns say these days. They fit different sizes and just pull right out when finished. Sometimes I need to wipe out the bottom with a wet paper towel after taking the liner out, but not always.
 
Quackers said:
ob - over here in the UK, unless people own ranges, ie Agas, (not sure if over there you have those without Googling), most of us use gas hobs for 'hob' cooking (your stove top(?) ie where you use pans - and electricity for ovens cooking baking, roasting, casseroles etc.
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Thank you. I did not know this. (y)
 
Quackers said:
Hope I'm making some sense here.... I find it difficult sometimes knowing the way we do things or have in the UK is not the same in US.
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Yes. I have the same problem. I keep forgetting that we in the 'colonies' are comparatively backwoodsmen compared to the civilized citizens of the motherland. Please feel free to assist my learning. Thank you.
 
AnneTeak said:
love the crockpot. those are my most successful meals. i never was a good cook. i think that is why my marriage failed. i guess they expect you to feed them.
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Such a refreshing message. Wonderful. A woman who partially takes the responsibility for her failed marriage is about as rare as an ice cube found laying outdoors in the sun at noon on the equator. And, yes, they did (but should not have) expect you to do all the cooking. We men were/are just raised all wrong. Marriage is a partnership; not a dictatorship. Said by one who was never married nor tried very hard to be. Growing up in one was too frightening to want to repeat the experience. I knew I would fail; I just would never be able to bring myself to treat my wife like my father did - the traditional way.
 
CallMeKate said:
... try the Reynolds slow cooker liners. Seriously, it's a "life changer" as the young 'uns say these days. They fit different sizes and just pull right out when finished. Sometimes I need to wipe out the bottom with a wet paper towel after taking the liner out, but not always.
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Thank you! On my shopping list. (y)
 

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