Ok, Ok, Immigrant; to each their own!! Not everyone like the slow cooker. Marie
-----Original Message----- From: Cookinginthedark [mailto:cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org] On Behalf Of Immigrant via Cookinginthedark Sent: Friday, February 21, 2020 2:38 PM To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Cc: Immigrant Subject: Re: [CnD] Slow cooking There is also something to be said about cooking preferences and taste preferences. In my world, there is no room for a slow cooker. I don't need to cook something longer than I would cook it in another setting. And I don't like many of the foods that slow cookers are used for. I like meat and fish breaded and baked, not braised. I want it to be crunchy on the outside. And I prefer many of my vegetables raw, and even in case of cooked vegetables, such as potatoes, I don't want them to taste braised and mushy. -----Original Message----- From: Cookinginthedark <cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org> On Behalf Of Marie Rudys via Cookinginthedark Sent: Friday, February 21, 2020 1:48 PM To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Cc: Marie Rudys <marmusi...@gmail.com> Subject: [CnD] Slow cooking Hello, everyone!! I have been using slow cookers for forty years, and never had any of them burn up. They use no more power than a lightbulb, to be honest about it. That is why it is perfectly safe to let it do its job whether or not you are Home. Low is around 250 degrees and high is 300 or so. Like a slow oven, really. I read that in the original Rival Crockpot Cookbook Back in the 1980's, and that information has stayed with me Ever since. I don't have to monitor it so closely, either. I never had a slow cooker boil over, either. It is not supposed to. Those of you who use one regularly know what I'm on about. I have gone out with the pot on low and when I got home tired, There is my food ready to eat. I never, ever had a Slow cooker catch fire or short out on me. Not one. I am cooking a roast now, with pearl onions and baby carrots And some potatoes. I did not put too much water In the bottom, because I know there will be more liquid as the meat Cooks. I am going to make some gravy from that. I use it at least once a month, when I Really want to slow cook something. The Hamilton Beach cooks slightly faster than the Rival I used to have back in the 1980's. But I just cook my roast the same Way I did back in those days. Marie _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
