Slow cookers: model selection, features, reviews

[Stafa]

Stafa, oh thank you, I didn’t know, crow, rushed and looked, as if there is, the joy was not long. got into above the translation, well, what can be understood from such a text (Name three cattle introduction
Duplex bulk cow
Pottery Pirates internal tank ...... A female mouth is needed to adjust the function of waiting for a pistol to cook ... and so on in the same spirit ... Reading such a female mouth, pirates, pistols I bought military equipment

I have been reading the topic for a long time, I went from "want" to "don't" and back several times And yet I could not resist, I came to ask ... Girls, here I have two cartoons in which you can languish at low temperatures and even imitate it slow rise. Having read the American hostesses, I tried to make the whole chicken. Tasty, but not it. Stew. Soft juicy meat that falls off the bones by itself. But all the same, not what you want, it would be better if baked in the oven. Will the slow cooker also taste the same or will you get something different due to the different placement of the heating elements and the bowl material?
So far I have found one plus of the slow cooker for myself: in a large oval bowl you can shove a whole large piece of meat, which does not fit into the cartoon, but I am always too lazy to cut. Are there any other advantages over a multicooker?

[L_e_a]

L_e_a,
Ekaterina, rice cookers with advanced functions, which we call multicooker, are not very popular in America (if only among vegetarians, or those who follow the path of yoga). This reflects their eating style and daily routine there, so you should not be guided by their reviews.
Slow cookers are inexpensive there, but they are not very helpful here.
The forum, in my opinion, is primarily a club of amateurs and collectors of various kitchen appliances, here the decisive moment is not only the need for this particular gadget, but also simply the desire to test it, to entertain oneself.
I took the idea of ​​slow cooking from the trainer, in the gym, then it was the paraphernalia of bodybuilders, and the multicooker appeared on the market later, and they never take root for me, the tandem of the slow cooker-rice cooker is enough for me
Slow cooked meat sometimes tastes like jellied meat, or stew,
I cook porridge using the * water bath * method,
vegetables are cooked differently than in a multicooker, they boil less well.
Girls have excellent baked milk.
Now there are slow cookers on sale with a bowl, like in a multicooker, they write about them that their only difference is that they heat up faster to the desired temperature.
I cooked rice pudding in Philips 3060 according to the same recipe as in the slow cooker, it turned out to be a different consistency, more like porridge.

Both slow cookers with a round, light bowl approached me (it is deeper than the oval ones, you can turn it around its axis without removing it if a crust starts to send from one side), and none of the oval ones came up, although I was sure that they convenient.
Geese, pilaf, ghee, lard and a healthy diet, in my opinion, are incompatible, so I did not set this goal for myself.
But this is just my opinion, you choose yourself.

Added on Tuesday 07 Feb 2017 16:10

Soaked chickpeas from * Mistral * last night
In the morning I put on HAY, at 8 o'clock, a magic broth, and chickpeas * al dente *, apparently they are selling very old stocks.
What * Mistral *, what * Fair * legumes they often have oak at a high price.
PS I clarify, on HAY, it comes to a boil in 3 hours and it goes from the sides to the center very neatly.
On the LOU, I have small bubbles around the edges, but there is no boiling, the food only trembles, that is, both modes work correctly, without overheating and underheating

[Ksarochka]

Ksarochka, prubul, girls,: a-kiss: I really love you, thank you very much for your help, your links have moved the process off the ground, otherwise I would have contemplated this miracle of technology from the couch. Ksarochka (I am addressing this, I just read it, and you both Elena) special thanks for poking my nose at the animation, but I was on this page myself before and just scrolled through everything in search of Russian text, etc., after your words, the animation, for a long time I searched in vain and accidentally left the drawing alone, and it turned out to be animated
The first attempt was successful, though she threw in layers onions, zucchini, meat (beef, she was some kind of fibrous infection, and she laid healthy pieces (she picked herself a little,) it was evident that the old cow was,) tomatoes (not enough) potatoes, a little water half a cup which came with MV (about 50g, maybe it is not needed there) carrots and chunks of Beijing cabbage on top ...
, the photo is not so hot, the tomatoes are lost .... but the main thing is delicious. For me, the verdict of my son was important, who hates stewed potatoes with meat, tried it and ... took an additive ...
It's a pity that I stuffed a lot of meat, not enough vegetables, but they are sooo tasty and nothing fell apart in 4.5 hours, even a Peking
Now about the buttons, although there is nothing special to write about. I haven't figured it out completely


I understood this way 1- inclusion,
2-? (most likely, it is set how much will be on heating after cooking, that is, if the dish is being prepared for 4 hours and we need heating for 3 hours, set 8, I think that after starting it will be 7.5 ... it is a pity that you do not poke the electronics a lot. next time I will try In my case, I did not press this button at all, or maybe in vain?
The third one understands the choice of programs under the dial and the first one is meat, and I cooked on it (I wrote down the cooking time for myself 4 hours (meat), 5 hours, (), 3.45 hours, 3.30 (porridge) hours, 4 hours (sauté, beans ) and again 3.45 (child))
well, as indicated, I pressed buttons 4, 6 and 6 according to the instructions
Choosing a meat program, I ended up with a cooking time of 4.5 hours
And here is what the buttons between 3 and 4 mean. But everything is ahead, maybe it's a postponement, but in what order to poke ... Yeah, you need to take it easier, or a Chinese friend to start a ramotny. (for some reason I remembered a Chinese woman who a year ago offered to communicate, she really wanted to practice in Russian ... but I can't communicate if there are no common interests.
In general, still study and study.

Svetlana, I am glad that at last you have made up your mind and moved forward. Friendship with this saucepan will improve, I'm sure! So the main eater approved of the dish prepared by my mother. So it was not in vain that I suffered.

[Svetlana]

SvetlanaWhat a fine fellow you are that you are slowly dealing with this Chinese "beast". So I immediately realized that such an electronic device was definitely not for me and took a mechanical one when Lena bought a tsetse fly from Lena. But where is the optimist? Sens, who believed that we had already "outgrown" the mechanical slows and was sure that the translation of these buttons was a trifling matter ..
here
Let him help with translation.

But where do we have the optimist Sens, who believed that we had already "outgrown" the mechanical slows and was sure that translating these buttons was a trifling matter.
here
Let him help with translation

yes, I am an optimist !!!
and I don't bother with translation at all.
I pour water, turn it on and watch ...
I experimentally establish which button is "strong", which is "weak", which is "timer" and "heating"

[Sens]

Sens, yes, you are a super-optimist, I can't do that, I always read the instructions, so I don't like sophisticated or incomprehensible devices, it's easier for me, no problems

[Svetlana777]

Svetlana777,
Svetlana, I congratulate you twice, firstly, judging by the cooking time, this is a slow cooker, and, secondly, the decoding of the hieroglyphs has moved off the ground. Since you were not the one who ordered from China, it means that together there will be a way to translate their instructions.

[Svetlana]

Hurrah Svetlana Well, that's it, now we will have our own translator Thank you. that the buttons were so wonderfully deciphered !!! : bravo: We are waiting for reviews and recipes !!!

We are waiting for reviews and recipes !!!

: girl_cray1: experiments are curtailed, (my husband returned from a business trip, I cupboard dragged to the balcony ... as in that joke: secret: the current is slow instead of a lover ... why so, while I'm not risking showing I'm afraid, it's just that he won't come to me with another toy, but here at once 4, I'm not a Soy cow yet I unpacked it like a teapot for herbs, You must first learn to cook something tasty, and then introduce you to a new resident (vital, so that you can't live without him * JOKINGLY * I usually did this, but these there is simply no place to put it, an ambush. You need to learn how to cook game in it, (he is a hunter, then he would forgive everything. I sit and think to ask when it fades or wait, I have enough for half a day

I don’t dare to show

not free woman a

🔗

pour water, turn on and watch ...

this is possible, of course, if just the regime is strong, weak, etc., And if the program is there to sit and wait while the water will cook in 5 h? or especially over 24, I understand if it was there, as in some washing machines, tracking what it does, but here with a thermometer is there something to sit

Added Thursday, 09 Feb 2017 08:36

not free woman a

, what if, well, so by chance, instead of game

Added Thursday, 09 Feb 2017, 08:40

Since you were not the one who ordered from China,

, so it turns out that such one. Well, I didn't take it to the joint venture, Elena (Mukha-tse-tse) threw off the links for me, and the slow one as a mechanic, and I found this "miracle" on my head

[Svetlana777]

Svetlana777,
Nothing just happens, maybe there are more * overgrown * mechanical slow cookers on the forum than it seems right now. And someone will respond.
It's always difficult to be the first, but how cute you are
And smart

Added Saturday 11 Feb 2017 08:33 AM

Svetlana777,
Maybe the 24 hour program is fermentation?
And on it you can soak brown rice, beans, oatmeal before cooking? Now it is popular, maybe manufacturers have included fermentation in the set of programs? Then, theoretically, it is possible to make yoghurt in it and proof the dough ... something like this I think

[slow cooker morphy richards]

Dear ladies, AVITO sells slow cooker morphy richards

I understood this way 1- inclusion,
2-? (most likely, it is set how much will be on heating after cooking, that is, if the dish is cooked for 4 hours and we need heating for 3 hours, we set it to 8, I think that after starting it will be 7.5 ... it's a pity that you do not poke the electronics a lot. In my case, I did not press this button at all, or maybe in vain?
The third is clear the choice of programs under the dial and the first is meat, and I cooked on it (I wrote down the cooking time for myself 4 hours (meat), 5 hours, (), 3.45 hours, 3.30 (porridge) hours, 4 hours (sauté, beans ) and again 3.45 (child))
well, as indicated, I pressed buttons 4, 6 and 6 according to the instructions
Choosing a meat program, I ended up with a cooking time of 4.5 hours
And here is what the buttons between 3 and 4 mean. But everything is ahead, maybe it's a postponement, but in what order to poke ... Yeah, you need to take it easier, or a Chinese friend to start a ramotny. (for some reason I remembered a Chinese woman who a year ago offered to communicate, she really wanted to practice in Russian .. and I can't communicate if there are no common interests.
In general, still study and study.

I was also flattered by this very clever "miracle".
Here is a photo of my unit:

I scanned the instructions, recognized the text and that's what I got (it didn't help me figure it out).

1-delay (indicator)
2-soup (indicator)
3-boiled soup (indicator)
4-bone soup (indicator)
5 - (center button) - mode selection - when pressed repeatedly, it cycles through modes with illumination (soup, boiled soup, bone soup, chicken soup, porridge, cereal)
6 - hours (change of time in hours)
7 - (second button in the center) - quick soup
8 - delay or change of time?
right side of the picture
9-time indicator
10 -?
11 - chicken soup (indicator)
12 - porridge (indicator)
13 - cereal porridge (indicator)
14 - minutes (change of minutes of time - step of 5 minutes)
15, 16, 17? - one of them is a heating indicator

Well, what I could find out - I wrote everything, maybe it will help.
I use the porridge regimen. I really like buckwheat in this mode, but I turn it off after 1.5 hours (the mode itself is 3 hours).

[Svetlana]

Yes, girls, it's time for us to insert hieroglyphs (you can copy from the translator): girl-swoon: The small picture does not grow. but there seems to be Svetlana something coincided with Julia... Girls, if not difficult to write and hieroglyphs !! It's scary to buy such equipment, but I want

[YuliaP]

YuliaP, Congratulations!!!! there are two of us, they are the same only the color is different. I looked at it, but my color suited me more, here. I have a lull with her so far. (my hands are itching to test, but I endure ...). I also threw the text of the pictures into the translator, but there it gave out, well, oh well. I see notes on the instructions, but it's hard to understand what is there ... The bottom part is the working buttons, let's do the numbering of the buttons center top-bottom, right-top-them and left-top-bottom (otherwise I don't understand 7 second in the center? or bottom?) Which button do you select the indicators?

Posted Monday 13 Feb 2017 06:07 AM

I use the porridge regimen. I really like buckwheat in this mode, but I turn it off after 1.5 hours (the mode itself is 3 hours).

But can the whole process of pressing buttons from the moment Chudik turn on?

I want a little one, yes, what is there, I want it - already ordered, even cautiously to my husband, trying to convey that another tenant in the kitchen will soon appear
right after he recognized Atlanta as a "good pan"
It so happened: a week after HER arrival, disk C flew on my computer (and I work at home), so I spent whole days in the kitchen and cooked-cooked-cooked ... and every day new dishes, and every day delicious porridge for breakfast ... in short, the slow one got "approved", but with a funny caveat: more often your computer would break! "
Now I'm waiting for the liter Tonze, I chose the simplest one, only four hieroglyphs, but as I found out yesterday, on different slows, of the same size, they are different ...

And I came to show off mashed potatoes.
1. Without shoots, smoked in milk, so unusually rich it turned out both in aroma and taste
2. Seasoned with VIOLA cheese, and it turned out so satisfying, and when cold, the taste of cheese is even more distinct, even spread it on bread and eat it.
Z. In 4 hours I cleaned the whole apartment and went to the store.

Added Thursday, Feb 16, 2017 5:03 PM

4 slices of small chicken fillet and vegetables poured a glass of milk with salt, pepper, garlic, dried dill and oregano.

Added Thursday 16 Feb 2017 5:04 pm

cooked for 3 hours on Hai

Added on Thursday, Feb 16, 2017 5:09 PM

She put the fillet and vegetables on plates, and crumbled 2 triangles of * Viola cheese with porcini * into the sauce.
Unexpectedly tasty carrots and a very rich fillet taste, like from the oven.
Delicate potatoes and delicious but not smooth sauce.
As a homemade dish I will repeat unambiguously
I think instead of potatoes, adapt green peas and pour cream.

RED pea soup from the author Reina, delicious and unbeatable

I see marks on the instructions, but it's hard to understand what is there ... The lower part is the working buttons, let's do the numbering of the buttons center top-bottom, right-top-them and left-top-bottom (otherwise I don't understand 7 second in the center? or bottom?) Which button do you select the indicators?

Posted Monday 13 Feb 2017 06:07 AM

But can the whole process of pressing buttons from the moment Chudik turn on?

I was away without the Internet, so I'm answering today.
I couldn't insert a big picture. Buttons are first left side from top to bottom (central ones are included in the left side), then right side from top to bottom.
Procedure:
I plug it in, press the upper center button as many times as I want to select, while the indicators move (that is, for the porridge indicator - 3 on the top, the indicator on the right side - I press 5 times). After that, 3 hours are displayed (this is the minimum time for this program).With the upper buttons on a brown background (the upper right and left are not indicators, but buttons), you can increase the left button with the left button, the right minute, but I don't need it, I already turn it off an hour and a half earlier. After that, you do not need to press anything else, the blinking indicator turns into a constant light and the program starts working.

Added Saturday 18 Feb 2017 06:50 PM

I see marks on the instructions, but it's hard to understand what is there ...

I tried to cut out the middle from the photo, I hope the hieroglyphs will be visible:

Added Saturday 18 Feb 2017 19:00

Apparently button 8 - bottom left - is a snooze. you press it, set the time in hours and minutes, and then select the function and its time, and then it starts through a delay. But in my opinion, the lower right button was repeated on the Tonze herbal brewing device - in my opinion, reset or heating - I don't remember ...

[YuliaP]

YuliaPThank you very much ... oh, so far I can’t experience it (I didn’t find a reason to show it to my husband ...,) It seems that then everything is simple, I then watched the video to which Elena Ksarochka gave a link, ( 🔗) there the activation process will be more sophisticated and with the use of more buttons to start. It is a pity that they did everything in silence on the video, it was necessary to accompany the speech, but in any case it helped me. (although not completely)

Girls who need a new kid on AVITO! 🔗

[Sveta is only like this: "Husband, a SURPRISE gift for March 8 !!!. What a fine fellow you are !!!"]

I did not find a reason to show it. husband.
Sveta is only like this: "Husband, a SURPRISE gift for March 8 !!!. What a fine fellow you are !!!"

[prubul]

prubul, not... . for something he is not in the mood at all ... I will wait, however, until he fades away on a business trip away from sin ... ... and I don’t need his gifts (I bought devices with almost all the money donated to me, here it’s something not even in the purchase, but that the whole house has been thromboggling ... here ... (even before deviceaholism about 5 years ago, I remember a conversation with a friend about the fact that it is better to live in a house, not in an apartment, and my idea of ​​a house since those times. .. "I don't need a mansion, a small house, but in the basement ... a pantry, etc. ... 1st floor storage room, etc. ... 2nd floor storage room, etc. When asked why there are so many storage rooms - Do, eh ..... Dreams Dreams .

I got such a tender corn porridge in 4 hours on HI,
Proportions 1: 3.5, water bath, hot water in a bowl to the level of water in a jug

And can you get such a porridge by cooking right in the bowl? And then I have a little slow, 1.5 liters. You can't really cook in a water bath ...

[Ofeliya]

Ofeliya,
I used to cook in a 2.5 liter slow cooker.
Now I only cook in 4.5 liters, so I use a small container and a water bath method. Just because.
Small slow cookers often cook faster than large ones, so it's best to first see how quickly the porridge cooks to the desired thickness and softness.
In small it turns out just as well, only maybe faster.

[Oksana]

Oksana, Thank you. Tomorrow I'll try to cook right in the bowl, under control.

Chocolate pudding, delicious

[Oksana]

Oksana, and the recipe is possible? I love shock very much. pudding

[Olya,]

And then I have a little slow, 1.5 liters.

Olya, I'm begging for 800 ml, be healthy, if I just need a slow cooker, then I cook on heating

[Jenealis]

Jenealis,
I posted the recipe on the main page under the name
Slow Cooker Chocolate Pudding

I posted the recipe on the main page under the name

and you can link, for those who do not know where is the main one?

[Oksana]

Oksana, thanks, I received a notification about a new recipe in my mail. An interesting idea. I love puddings with cream very much, I will definitely try

[Jenealis]

Jenealis,
Recipe four years ago from YouTube, called
Crock Pot Chocolate Puddng Cake,
where two women, one in a white coat, cook in a white sloweaker, with a bag inside ... but there are differences, first of all, in time and even in little things, but the MOST IMPORTANT thing is that the final result is so crumpled there that I myself am ready to pudding I figured out how to define it, by analogy with other chocolate baked goods in slowcooker, so I wrote how I cook it, the result is really pleasing.

Added Thursday, 23 Feb 2017 15:59

Svetlana777,
I haven’t learned how to insert links, look, either by name, or in my recipes

In the left column for new recipes.

Olya, I'm begging for 800 ml, be healthy, if I just need a slow cooker, then I cook on heating

I saw it too late. I made corn porridge, after 2 hours on Hai, it began to weld on the sides. Translated into Lowe. It gurgled for another 2 hours. I barely soaked a pot of seared cereals. Apparently he really shakes o-ho .. Next time I'll try heating.

[Ofeliya]

Ofeliya,
And I had an idea to buy a 1.5 liter slow cooker for night porridge.
It means that it will definitely not work, since they are so rapid-fire, thanks for saying
(2.5 liters cooked in the same way as the big one)
And, if not a secret, from which company is this slow cooker?

[Oksana]

Oksana, I have an English slow, Chefmate. I tried to put porridge for the night - horror. She didn’t soak it with anything in order to rip off what had stuck to the sides of the bowl. Lowe did, though. I didn't cook anymore during the night.

[Ofeliya]

Ofeliya,
THANKS, so I shouldn't take less than 2.5 liters.
(I saw very small 1-1.5 liters that they sell in addition to large ones, calling them * for fondue *
Fondue can be chocolate, cheese, butter and broth, Mongolian.
In theory, in butter and broth, it should scald strongly)
I was always confused by this confusion * for fondue *, it's good that I didn't order, thanks a lot again

Added Friday 24 Feb 2017 7:25 pm

Ofeliya,
Are there any recipes in the instructions? Maybe for small ones you need a different ratio of liquid, or put more oil?

Girls, if someone has a small slow cooker in which you can cook buckwheat all night, please tell me her model

[Oksana]

Oksana, 800 ml



just why ... there are programs adapted for buckwheat for 40 minutes in the multicooker

[Irsha]

Irsha,
Ira, I want it, either from CROC POT, or .. I don’t know yet
I need a classic slow cooker to cook my 8-10 hours, I love to sleep.
I cooked buckwheat at night in a water bath at the LOU, this is a completely different buckwheat, I am ready to eat it without salt and oil, and the dog too. The usual sharp aroma and aftertaste of this not loved by many cereals is completely absent.
The same difference with beans, it turns out in itself a rich and masoyous taste in the good sense of the word.

Added Sunday Feb 26, 2017 08:18 AM

Oksana, 800 ml



just why ... there are programs in the multicooker adapted for buckwheat for 40 minutes

I took it twice, both defective, boiled even at LOU, one passed, the other went to the trash heap, there is no more desire to throw away money, nerves and time

And here I will cry
Today I banged a bowl from my 3.5-liter settlement ((((no one has an extra one? Or no one needs an oval lid and an aluminum case ??

Eh, Liza ... it's a shame how. I sympathize. Was it empty?

Sorry, Lizaveta .. very sorry ...

[brendabaker]

Or does anyone need an oval cover and an aluminum case ??

Liz, I really sympathize, but do not throw out these parts, if possible. It so happened with the slow that a blue monster was put above the maiden in the picture. Tanyusha's pot broke, she also offered and did not interest anyone. And two weeks later my body burned down. Fortunately, under the guarantee, they changed it, and if it were not available for exchange, that would have been a tragedy.
brendabaker, Oksana, so why throw it in the trash? After all, there are people who would have taken into good hands.

I have nowhere to store, but before I remember someone was looking for a cover. But, what is really there, let him lie, he does not ask for porridge.

Added Wednesday 01 Mar 2017 5:03 pm

Empty, washed. We came from the pool, I decided to disassemble the dishes from the PMM, I opened the dryer above the sink, apparently abruptly