Slow Cookers

[Guest martinkelly]

Slow cookers consist of a robust ceramic/pottery-type base, usually many times bigger than a rice cooker, and with a thick base. Usually they have at 2-3 heat settings. They can be easily shoved in the oven too. The base goes into a heating element, much like a rice cooker, but like I say, much thicker.

 

What's best then ,for cooking a 2kg joint of meat in stock & wine,slow cooker or rice cooker?

[Guest lemikins]

What's best then ,for cooking a 2kg joint of meat in stock & wine,slow cooker or rice cooker?

Are you stupid?

[Guest martinkelly]

Are you stupid?

Are you vague?

 

What's best for cooking 2kg of meat in stock & wine ,slow cooker or rice cooker?

[Guest lemikins]

Are you vague?

 

What's best for cooking 2kg of meat in stock & wine ,slow cooker or rice cooker?

One is for cooking predominantly meat, one for rice. It doesn't require many deductive skills to ascertain which is best for which. I would suggest a 2Kg joint would be a tight fit in most rice cookers with the associated fluid, and would probably stick to the thinner base. Is that answer good enough or do you require an MP3 file with it repeated every 20 seconds for the next 5 years?

[Guest martinkelly]

Anyone who compares a slow cooker to a rice cooker is an idiot.

Put a 2Kg joint of meat in a rice cooker with stock and wine and see what happens to it 8 hours after.

 

If you don't know what you are talking about, don't add to the thread.

Have you ever put a 2kg joint of meat with stock & wine in a slow cooker for 8 hours?

Frequently, that's what they are designed for. However I wouldn't expect you to get past plastic wraps and a microwave.

F..kwit, I have a busy life and use mine almost everyday, I always get good results, I was jut giving an example.

One is for cooking predominantly meat, one for rice. It doesn't require many deductive skills to ascertain which is best for which. I would suggest a 2Kg joint would be a tight fit in most rice cookers with the associated fluid, and would probably stick to the thinner base. Is that answer good enough or do you require an MP3 file with it repeated every 20 seconds for the next 5 years?

 

As clear as a good wine stock matey boy.Thanks for the info .I'm off to Argos to buy a rice cooker.

 

Mery Xmas

[joekicker 53]

Put a 2Kg joint of meat in a rice cooker with stock and wine and see what happens to it 8 hours after.

 

Have you ever put a 2kg joint of meat with stock & wine in a rice cooker for 8 hours?

 

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[Guest lemikins]

Have you ever put a 2kg joint of meat with stock & wine in a rice cooker for 8 hours?

 

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Well there you go, it must be me after all, and the manufacturers.

My rice cooker has no instructions for putting in joints of meat.

My slow cooker has no instructions for cooking rice.

Silly me, why can't I think outside the square?

 

Eh, no. My rice cooker could not take a 2Kg joint and fluid, and extras, and forgive me if I go by the manufacturer's advise, but I will not attempt to waste a nice joint in a rice cooker.

 

I will leave the experiment up to you. I prefer to go with what works.

[Guest martinkelly]

Have you ever put a 2kg joint of meat with stock & wine in a rice cooker for 8 hours?

 

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I asked you first.

[farman 11]

They can be easily shoved in the oven too.

 

Hi, is the ceramic part of the slow cooker/crockpot robust enough to put inside an oven at high heat?

 

I have wanted to put it in the oven to cook a quick casserole but was worried about cracking the pot at high heat.

 

If it is possible then i could make one hell of a big casserole as the pot is massive on mine.

 

Thanks

[yogi100 1,925]

Has anyone seen any slow cookers for sale anywhere.I want to invest in one to save keep putting my oven on.

 

Thanks

 

I bought one from Big C for about 500 baht a few years ago and still use it in the UK now. I bought the smaller size because it was cheapest but on reflection I wish I'd have spent a bit more on a larger one.

[joekicker 53]

Hi, is the ceramic part of the slow cooker/crockpot robust enough to put inside an oven at high heat?

 

You have an oven? And you're worried about whether you can buy a crock pot? Talk about starting at the high end and working down.

 

Eh, no. My rice cooker could not take a 2Kg joint and fluid, and extras, and forgive me if I go by the manufacturer's advise, but I will not attempt to waste a nice joint in a rice cooker.

 

So you don't know what happens, you have no way to test it, but anyone who does it must be... no ,strike that, anyone who suggests it *is* an idiot.

 

Not the best example of an open mind, I'd say.

 

FWIW, I idiotically agree with you that *IF* you can get a crock pot, it would be nice for the dish you made up out of thin air for the OP. And if you can *not* get a crock pot, or if you don't want to shell out for one, or if you're low on storage space, then *one* possibility to try might be a rice cooker, which simmers on very low heat for a day or three without a problem.

 

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Edited December 22, 2011 by joekicker

[simon_cook 22]

Mr Kicker,are you sure it simmers all day?I thought it just stayed warm.Not the same is it?

[jacko 8,766]

Mr Kicker,are you sure it simmers all day?I thought it just stayed warm.Not the same is it?

They seem bring to the boil for 10 minutes or so and then just keep warm. Not sure what the congee setting does.

She only showed me the correct button to press!

[Guest lemikins]

You have an oven? And you're worried about whether you can buy a crock pot? Talk about starting at the high end and working down.

 

 

 

So you don't know what happens, you have no way to test it, but anyone who does it must be... no ,strike that, anyone who suggests it *is* an idiot.

 

Not the best example of an open mind, I'd say.

 

FWIW, I idiotically agree with you that *IF* you can get a crock pot, it would be nice for the dish you made up out of thin air for the OP. And if you can *not* get a crock pot, or if you don't want to shell out for one, or if you're low on storage space, then *one* possibility to try might be a rice cooker, which simmers on very low heat for a day or three without a problem.

 

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Look, cooking is my life. I know more about cooking than you've had shags. A rice cooker will not do what a slow cooker does. I have no intention of trying it because I already know the answer.

 

Your knowledge of cooking is shown by your amazement as to why someone would want a slow cooker when they have an oven. Well matey boy, there are certain cuts of meat which go as tough as 50 year old trollop's piss flaps when cooked in an oven, but in a slow cooker they become meltingly delicious, at the cost of running a light bulb roughly. You could get the same result in a low oven but you'd be burning through your electricity and it's overkill to use it.

There are many delicious slow-cooked meals that can be made in a slow cooker. I gave the eg of a 2Kg piece of meat to illustrate a rice cooker would be struggling to even accommodate that

 

Fortunately, cleverer people that you or I realised a long time ago that a rice cooker is not a slow cooker and a slow cooker is not a rice cooker, that is why one is called a rice cooker, and one a slow cooker, so why the f..k don't you and the other tossers just admit that there is a difference and stop trying to be smart. Alternatively, show me an instruction booklet from a rice cooker that says it can also act as a slow cooker and I'll eat my words and show my arse online.

[jacko 8,766]

Alternatively, show me an instruction booklet from a rice cooker that says it can also act as a slow cooker and I'll eat my words and show my arse online.

Vitaclay 2-in-1 Rice N' Slow Cooker VF7700-6

 

 

When we get to see that arse?

[bigmick 840]

Vitaclay 2-in-1 Rice N' Slow Cooker VF7700-6

 

 

When we get to see that arse?

 

Ouch!!!!

[Guest lemikins]

Vitaclay 2-in-1 Rice N' Slow Cooker VF7700-6

 

 

When we get to see that arse?

Fair enough, hairy arse shot to follow.

[simon_cook 22]

They have 4 settings.The settings for rice and stews etc are not the same.Everyone was talking about a standard rice cooker that have on off button.You only have to google it to see its not the same.

I have a rice cooker that has settings for porridge and brown rice but its not a slow cooker and i wouldnt trust cooking meat in it.Up to you if you want to.

I wouldnt want to spend money on something if i dont have to but as they are not the same i think i will have to.

Basically if you have a slow cooker function on your rice cooker then yes.If not then no.

Edited December 23, 2011 by simon_cook

[simon_cook 22]

Lemkins,

 

are you new to this board as you obviously dont know what JoeKicker is like

[MM 6,562]

Fair enough, hairy arse shot to follow.

 

Not necessary...let's put it down to a "figure of speech".

[farman 11]

You have an oven? And you're worried about whether you can buy a crock pot? Talk about starting at the high end and working down.

 

 

Yes i do have an oven.

 

No im not worried about whether i can buy a crock pot as i already have one that i bought in tesco a while back.

 

I was just asking Lemkins (not you ) if it is safe to put the ceramic part of the crock pot in the oven at HIGH heat as crock pots are designed to cook at a LOWER heat.

 

[Fondles 94]

I often cook a joint in the missus' rice cooker, always comes out fuckin spot on. toss it all in whilst getting ready for work in the morning and when I return home 12 hrs later its just lush.

[joekicker 53]

Look, cooking is my life. I know more about cooking than you've had shags. A rice cooker will not do what a slow cooker does.

 

You may or may not know something about cooking. But no one is arguing about cooking except you. And to the point here is what is certain: you don't know a lot about reading. Not a person, not a post, not a SENTENCE in this thread says that a rice cooker "will ... do" what a crock pot does. In fact.... I believe you are the first person who even suggested the idea.

 

"Look" - as the man says.

 

If you don't have a slot screwdriver, you might be able to loosen that screw with a table knife. If your DVD player won't play the disk you picked up in America, you may be able to watch it on your PC. If you can't get to Pattaya this weekend because of all the joints you're cooking, you may be able to download a copy of "Girls of Pattaya" and, er, take it to bed with you so to speak.

 

No one here said any of these pairs is *_equal_*. Except you, to set up your strawman to knock it down.

 

 

I have a rice cooker that has settings for porridge and brown rice but its not a slow cooker and i wouldnt trust cooking meat in it.

 

So you ALSO don't know. Why run it down so, if you don't know? Why not, you know, find out?

 

I was just asking Lemkins (not you )

 

When you get a few, ask someone to explain this Internet thingmy to you, how it works and all.

 

 

I often cook a joint in the missus' rice cooker, always comes out fuckin spot on. toss it all in whilst getting ready for work in the morning and when I return home 12 hrs later its just lush.

 

Interesting, because mine has been sitting there for (quite a few) years, and hardly even thought of it. Do you have to adapt the recipe, put more liquid, anything like that?

 

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Edited December 23, 2011 by joekicker

[bigmick 840]

Jeez - guys, really!!! all this to argue over a rice/slow cooker !!!!!!

[simon_cook 22]

Edited December 23, 2011 by simon_cook