Slow cookers: model selection, features, reviews

[brendabaker]

All people are different, moreover, some are also superlatives. We must take this into account, colleagues.

the hostess does not fall into prostration when buying a new pan.

I fall into prostration in front of CF and I can't figure out what to do with it and how. But the brain does not add up and that's it. My culinary experience fails. I can bake pancakes in a wood-fired titanium furnace, make pilaf, borscht-kuleshi over a fire, bake meat with hot stones, cook you on a kerosene stove, but MV is an incomprehensible phenomenon for me. Because Oksanina's advice, experience, books on her link with detailed reasoning, what, where, how much, how many liters of MB to buy - just a treasure!
brendabaker, Oksana, thanks so much for the link and for all your recipes and experiences!
They are very necessary and very important!

There is nothing difficult about slow cooking.

For me it is difficult and incomprehensible.
That is why people go to such topics - to master a new skill on someone else's experience, for a start, so as not to be frightened and not disappointed.

And today I conducted an experiment, shoby know sho for what ..
In short, I poured 212 in Keith and 707 in Kenwood (who does not know, a newcomer in my kitchen) with 2 liters of water, temperature 25 degrees, and put both units on High for 4 hours 30 minutes, and every hour I measured the temperature, mustache. I needed this to find out at what speed and how both saucepans are heated, and for sour cream.
If anyone is interested, I can write the results obtained.

[Trishka]

Trishka,
Ksyusha, write about Kenwood in Tanya's topic (Admin), there just aren't his measurements, and many have these slows

So there and in the topic there seems to be no one especially, that's all

So there and in the topic there seems to be no one especially, that's all

Draw here ..

[Rituslya]

Rituslya,
Ritul, I brrshch in a slow cooker in one fell swoop, I took a recipe from the book 1,001 recipes ..
I was surprised how it can be bopsh without tomato, without frying and without potatoes ??
Delicious and fresh it turned out, I cook for the second time.
Beetroot borscht, Russian brrsch and borscht from Eastern Europe are next ... until I started

Ksyusha, lay it out here. Very interesting. Today we have whales ... and tomorrow we will buy kenwoods, in your footsteps. Thanks avitka



But I bought myself a cupboard in the boiler room. It's right next to the kitchen. In a fit of joy, she carried everything there. And she took the shelf for her girls. I have them for a week. But the small one has leaked back into the kitchen ... cooks porridge Without it, nothing. And I don’t get those yet. But I miss it already. I’ll probably pull out a morfushka. Something missed the broth.

[Olga 61]

Olga 61,
Ol, look in the recipe book, I translated bopsch and beet borsch there
And cooked borscht in Russell.
Instead of vinegar, lemon juice is treasured to taste

[Olga 61]

Girls, and I have a question ... almost intimate. How and with what you wash your assistants. I mean the base. Maybe I'm such an asshole, not a mistress. It seems that I wipe the bowl dry and try to mix it neatly, and it never spills out, and the base gets dirty. Sometimes there are spots on the base. Interestingly, everyone is so and who washes what.

Olga 61,
Ol, look in the recipe book, I translated bopsch and beet borscht there
And cooked borscht in Russell.
Instead of vinegar, lemon juice is treasured to taste

Thank you. I'll take a look.

who washes what.

I washed Kenwood with a mixture of homemade dishes: dry mustard, grated soap, soda 1: 1: 1. And the Whales are still clean.

put it here

Draw here ..

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So :
Water 24 * from the tap, 2l each.
Time 4 hours 30 minutes.
Kenwood 707. // Kitford 212.

After 1 hour
65*. // 60*
In 2 hours
85*. // 83*
After 3 hours
90*. // 94*
After 4 hours, I did not measure, because.In Kita 45 minutes before the end (after 3 hours 45 minutes), the water boiled at T 98 *.
And in Kenwood at the end of the program after 4 hours 30 minutes was 93 *

[For slow cooker Kenwood CP-707]

How and with what you wash your assistants. I mean the base.

I wipe with a melamine sponge, it almost does not need water, after melamine I wipe the base with a wet and dry cloth.
Before the appearance of melamine sponges, I scrubbed with metal soft washcloths + wiping with rags, not too much soot inside.
The Kenwoods are not nimble.
Shustryachok-MAMAN recently just rubbed and washed it with a metal washcloth under the stream, the metal "plate" -stand under the bowl was brought in over time. Then for several days she dried the mother upside down on the battery. She has no mind, only wires.



For slow cooker Kenwood CP-707

For the sake of interest, I did not turn off the slow cooker after the recommended 2 hours of heating had expired - and it turned off, that is, on the monitor everything is zeroed at 0:00 and there is no "saucepan" sign. I pressed the power button - the monitor lit up, but since I didn't set any mode, it went out quickly.

Girls! I take a closer look at the slow cooker, and now I think: the bowl is ceramic + "hot plate", and the total cost is generally acceptable for purchase. But there are doubts about the quality of the bowl-saucepan ... after all, just a ceramic saucepan or a frying pan are many times more expensive by themselves ..?! how so?

Girls! And here I wrote in the subject in my opinion already. I sell brand new electric tagine. In our flea market. Does anyone need it by accident?

Girls! I take a closer look at the slow cooker, and now I think: the bowl is ceramic + "hot plate", and the total cost is generally acceptable for purchase. But there are doubts about the quality of the bowl-saucepan ... after all, just a ceramic saucepan or a frying pan are many times more expensive by themselves ..?! how so?

I don't have a ceramic pot. I can't compare. But the pots in my morphine and in the kitties are the same and I like them.

after all, just a ceramic pot or a frying pan are many times more expensive by themselves ..?

Don't compare the price of a superfood branded ceramic pot with the price of a Chinese know-name. Or even with the price of Borisov ceramics. Or with the price of IKEA baking dishes (for example, VARDAGEN - oval oven dish, RUB 599, stoneware).
And not all electric stoves are induction, there are also ordinary cheap ones.

But there are doubts about the quality of the bowl-saucepan ... after all, just a ceramic saucepan or a frying pan are many times more expensive by themselves ..?! how so?

this topic is from 2008, there are other topics on the forum about different slow cookers, and there was not a single complaint about the bowl.
Likewise, no one complained about the heating base.
So, draw your own conclusions - our good units are slow, long-working, reliable, easy to operate. And most of them are not expensive, yes, they are mechanically controlled and with three heating modes.
Electronically controlled slow cookers are more expensive.
Yes, and the slow-cooking bowls are not so ceramic, there is a complex composition of the material, it was discussed several times.

Girls, I am still inclined to buy a slow meat and jellied meat. I will not get it - a kit 211 for 8 liters which is very large and heavy? It's just that jellied meat sometimes does not fit into my Redmond, and I often digest it in a saucepan.

kit 211 for 8 liters which is very large and heavy?

Arrogant, but not huge, and not heavy-heavy. About 7 kg empty.
Feasible. )

[Irgata]

Irgata, Irina, Thank you! I just saw a review on the ozone on the topic "why did I buy such a huge one !!!", they say, it takes half a table, too heavy and how to wash it is not clear.

[Svetlana]

Svetlana, like any voluminous pot - not a small bowl. Wash - put in the sink and wash)
And about the reviews for OZONE - so many people think a 3-liter saucepan is big))
Yes, and OZONE has characteristics of the goods that are on sale - weight and dimensions, if you do not look at them and buy them, then who is to blame?

[vatruska]

Girls, I am still inclined to buy a slow meat and jellied meat. I will not get it - a kit 211 for 8 liters which is very large and heavy? It's just that jellied meat sometimes does not fit into my Redmond, and I often digest it in a saucepan.

vatruska, Svetlana, an empty bowl weighs about 4.5 kg. It is heavy, but not critical, to wash the norms in the sink. I also wash my pot in the dishwasher.

[Svetlana]

It's just that jellied meat sometimes does not fit into my Redmond, and I often digest it in a saucepan.

Svetlana, for jellied meat, that's it!
And I also want to cook barley and beans there.
Not small and not light, of course. But also not critical.

[Irgata]

Girls, thanks!

there are characteristics of the goods that are on sale - weight and dimensions, if you do not look at them and buy them, then who is to blame?

Irgata, Irina, so I have such an incident - there is no spatial imagination at all (although I passed the sketch in the university and found the points in flight!), it seems there are dimensions, but to imagine how big it is in person - well, no way!
And yet, girls, the reviews specifically about this model are very different - who writes that everything is wonderful, but there are those who write about just boiling in all modes, what do you think?

but there are those who write about just violent boiling in all modes, what do you think?

I can say that I have jellied meat under the lid practically, never once during the night tried to escape, foaming, etc. to the LOU. But it gurgles slightly, yes. However, this cannot be called a violent boil at all.

I ordered ... I went to see what rearrangement in the kitchen to do in order to cram the device!

It has come! She washed and dried the bowl and immediately put the pickled neck there. Yummy!!!
I washed the stove and this time the canister (the correct milk which) is 1.8 l + the Muuu package and poured it overnight ... Gorgeous milk !!! The only thing is that the pan is large and the evaporation area is also, at the exit there is an incomplete canister of milk ...

[vatruska]

vatruska, Svetlana, congratulations, let the saucepan please.

[vatruska]

Ladies, please teach me if there is a life hack on how to wash the rim of milk after heating? only by soaking? Or grease with oil? I do not heat milk due to the difficulty of laundering



vatruska, Svetlana, Congratulations! Let the helper (or helper) serve faithfully and for a long time!

Girls, thanks !!! Mom is already boasting to her relatives about what delicious boiled pork she ate and what delicious milk she drank!
The saucepan (gee ..., barely fit in the sink), yes, soaked it ... Well, it's ceramics ... you can't do anything!

[Sveta]

Sveta, I drown at low, the crust-rim turns out, yes, but not hard. Easily removable if you just pull it with your fingers.
Here the porridge is welded yeah, be healthy! There I cut it off with a knife.

Here the porridge is welded yeah, be healthy

no, once was enough for me. There is absolutely no desire to achieve the ideal.

I drown on a low, a crust-border turns out, yes, but not hard.

How do you define readiness? Mine do not want caramel-caramel like syrup, but like in a store. Moderately caramel

I don't define it in any way, I put it at 10 o'clock at night. We don't just drink it, I make varenets-fermented baked milk.
If moderate, then it is better to do it during the day. After 4-5 hours start to look

making varenets-fermented baked milk

what do you ferment with?

Sometimes I bought special sourdough, I bought it at Ozone, sometimes ryazhenka from BB, sometimes just sour cream
The result is also different. I like something viscous, then I myself will eat with pleasure.

[vatruska]

vatruska, Svetlana, Congratulations! Very good casserole!

[Svetlana]

Svetlana, congratulations, let the saucepan please!
Svetlenki, Sveta, I put milk on Low, and I also greased the pan with butter, it is normally washed, immediately, without soaking, with a sponge. Here on Hai it sticks well, it is the same protein that behaves like that, the higher the temperature, the harder the crust.
And the degree of mellowness can only be determined experimentally, from different milk and the result is different. It seems to me that we need to try at Lowe for 6 hours. But again, I judge by my milk.
And then I only make fermented baked milk in a yogurt maker with ferment from Orsik fermented baked milk.

I sell slow, maybe who needs it, ads in the Flea market ...

Hello girls.
Enriched your ranks with the acquisition of Kit-212.
Now I want a small one for porridge. Family 2 pers.
I am tormented by a choice between Kit-205 and Russell Hobbs 25570-56 for 2 liters.
Tell me, how are they by temperament? And, having already 3.5 liters, is it better to buy another 1.5 liters or 2 liters?
I've been reading this topic for a long time, but I just can't decide
If someone has a Russell Hobbs 25570-56, write, pliz, how it is used.

Hello everyone, I haven’t come in for a long time, there’s nothing with it ... For a couple of months now, I arrived at the new Russell Hobs with a sous-vid and a temperature probe.
Recently, finally, hands reached him. I liked the aggregate very much.
So far I have only cooked chicken breast rolls with sous vide filling. It turned out gorgeous.

Russell Hobbs 25630 Slow Cooker and Sous Vide Water Bath, Integrated Digital Display and Rack Frame Included, 6.5 Liter, Black





I decided to cook a deer leg in it. Until I came up with an algorithm and a mode.

[Rada-dms]

Rada-dms,
What beauty, deliciousness and usefulness! The device is gorgeous!

Girls, I have a question. My kit is slow, the biggest one
And so I think, if you bake vegetables in it for salad in foil, but the bottom will not be completely covered due to the area ... Will it not damage the pan?

Girls and boys, hello everyone!
I decided to write here about my little know-how (at least until I met in the topics about the slow one)!
I remember that one of the members of the forum complained that the lid of the nimble slows bounces when boiling, and someone has a gap between the lid and the side of the saucepan, and all these problems were solved with the help of a foil flagellum. I, on your advice, did so too! But I quickly got tired of twisting these same flagella and I thought about how to do without them)
In short, we take a silicone tube (sold in a shop called Hose) with an internal diameter of 6 mm (it is sold exactly by the internal diameter). Carefully cut ALONG to the desired length (corresponding to the diameter of the lid) and, as it were, stick around the rim of the lid. Voila, the lid sits tightly, does not crawl anywhere, no gaps, in general, beauty!
I don't know if she explained it clearly, tomorrow I can take a picture in the daylight)
I apologize if someone else came up with this before me!

[torbochka]

if someone else came up with this before me!

I have such a cover, for many cases)))
🔗
torbochkaand the idea is good

[OlgaGera]

I have such a cover

OlgaGera, the lid is excellent, I do not argue, but I have a slow one with an oval bowl, so I had to think of something)

[Irina]

Irina, I do not jump, but the idea is super!

[M @ rtochka]

M @ rtochka, Daria, yes, I also do not jump, but I’m already tired of hanging out with a thick-syudy, just move a hole!) And this tube provides a very tight fit to the rim of the saucepan)




Photographed)
Here's what happened (for comparison, there is a lid next to it without "clothes")

And here is the "joint"

I didn't realize - it was necessary to make the cuts slightly at an angle relative to each other. Not particularly annoying, but next time I'll take it into account)

[worries]

Hello girls.
Enriched your ranks with the acquisition of Kit-212.
Now I want a small one for porridge. Family 2 pers.
I am tormented by a choice between Kit-205 and Russell Hobbs 25570-56 for 2 liters.
Tell me, how are they by temperament? And, having already 3.5 liters, is it better to buy another 1.5 liters or 2 liters?
I've been reading this topic for a long time, but I just can't decide
If someone has a Russell Hobbs 25570-56, write, pliz, how it is in use.

I will directly quote Julia ... no one answered her, but me worries the same question?
Kitforth or Russell? If this is the first slow will be?
And so far the only one.
We need about 3.5 liters.
Porridge, stew, vegetables.
You are welcome answer! For you need to choose !!?
Especially who has both units.
(Oksana saw what you have!) But did not understand ... which one to prefer?
So that milk and non-dairy porridge is put overnight and in the morning it is ready ...
Which one to choose to start with? Girls?)
And of course I will cook meat and vegetables during the day.

As for me, I would buy both. Small ones are so comfortable. I have 3.5 liters have been used occasionally for a long time. And the small ones constantly enter.

[Stafa]

Stafa, Sveta, both?
In meaning, are they different?
I now have a family of 4 adults, one baby. 3.5 liters is good for us, I think ...
I look at kit 212 (I want electronic control)