Slow cookers: model selection, features, reviews

But hotter? Is the pan hot?

The pan is hot, do not touch. And the food in it is hot at the bottom, less on top. Maybe it's the voltage in the network, it's a little cold in St. Petersburg now, people turn on the heaters, and the networks are old, the voltage is 180-190 instead of 220. I put it on Low for the whole night, I hope that it will reach the required condition.

Maybe someone in Kiev is interested in slow cookers, and so - in the Metro "Comfort" - 260 UAH. for 3.5 liters and in Megamax at Starovokzalnaya at 495 (with a 15% discount) Kenwood for 4.5 liters.
Personally, I lean more towards Kenwood. And someone has this saucepan from "Comfort". Happy with her?

Yes, I forgot to write mechanical Kenwood 706 in Megamax

Girls, I'm reporting. My husband still got chicken legs with potatoes to work, and at 7 in the morning he also had breakfast with them. Everything worked out, everything came to a condition, very tender meat, itself falling off the bones (but not stewed at the same time), potatoes (cut into thick circles on the Berner) did not turn into porridge, but remained in circles.
In general, at the bottom of the saucepan, I put potatoes, chicken thighs on it, and I poured all this with a sauce of my own invention (tomatoes through a meat grinder, fried onions and carrots there - I do it in the fall). I put it on Hai, after 3.5 hours it gurgled a little from one edge, translated it to Low (about 23h30m). At 7 am everything was ready. I didn't add water.
Now I have set up to cook the language in Hai, I think that closer to night I will translate it to Low and go to bed.

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........ "Since terracotta is porous and moisture-accumulating material" ....

Interestingly, but this material absorbs food particles, fat as well ... as well as water? What will happen to this cauldron in time, how to wash it in micropores?

As I understood from the pictures, the terracotta pot is a cap, and not the vessel itself for cooking (which, apparently, is just glazed). Inevitably, something will fall on him, but this is not catastrophic.

So I got a long-term one. Received today, already delivered vegetables and meat. Here is my beauty:

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for 2-3 persons, or even for one at all .. and the oven will wind electricity to full

[mina30]

mina30, I saw this name of Mirokh and realized that you followed Rina's links. 6.5 liters for 280 g? Stew pan.

Girls, and 6.5 liters is a healthy bandura? How much table space does it take? As I understand it, 6.5 is a ceramic cauldron, and also a sheath with wires. 2 question - how much can you cook at least in it - a liter, two? Only about the pots is not necessary.

[Irish]

Irish, I will tell you the external dimensions a little later. This bandura is rather big, but it is quite comparable with my electric pressure cooker. Minimum? I think there are some restrictions on the minimum volume. If you count on filling a little more than half of the cauldron, then you get about three liters.

By the way, next to those links, I became interested in a three-liter slow cooker, but with a vertical saucepan (my husband will strangle me)

By the way, next to those links, I became interested in a three-liter slow cooker, but with a vertical saucepan (my husband will strangle me)

What does it mean? With a vertical saucepan? : - \ What do we have - horizontal? According to 2 links, there was one at 6.5 - this one is black, like Mina's30, and there was also a wonderful white 3.5 for only 160 (no longer). And vertical? what a beast - give me a link pzhl.

vertical is the one that is higher than wider.
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[Ir]

We have already walked on this topic in multicooker in Ukraine

Ir, large Kenwood slow cooker dimensions: length 44-45 cm, width 29-30 cm, height to the edge of the pot 20 cm (top of lid handle approx. 25 cm).

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Mama mia, half a meter. I looked at the saucepan vertical I was not impressed by the stainless steel - I have a BOSCH kettle to wipe it off, I put my life in every time. But this does not prevent him from looking worn out every time. Maybe someone else has ... Although the production of Great Britain is written. (I DO NOT believe, Stanislavsky)

IRR, I didn't find my message yesterday, I'll try to repeat it.
I don't know at least, but I'm in my honey. var. cooked 2 liters .. but the maximum is stipulated: in 6.5 liters maximum 4.5 liters, in 3.5 liters - 2.5 liters. Here.

[? More than 25%]

IRR, I didn't find my message yesterday, I'll try to repeat it.
I don't know at least, but I'm in my honey. var. cooked 2 liters .. but the maximum is stipulated: in 6.5 liters maximum 4.5 liters, in 3.5 liters - 2.5 liters. Here.

??? More than 25% volume is lost ... um ... why? Boiling is inactive, I suppose, will not flatten. Somewhere flashed that you can fill in 2 cm below the side glechik kazanchik, or imagined ...

[IRR]

IRR
Yes, yes, it was she who was auctioned. Full analogue of Kenwood or vice versa (?). To a minimum - I poured some water into the cauldron, about a liter and a half will be just right. Maximum - about 4.5 liters. The size is really big. But I personally put a wooden board on half of the stove and a saucepan on it. In general, exactly half of the gas surface is occupied (although my Brown double boiler is the same). Dimensions L * W * H - 39 (with handles 44) * 29 * 20 cm. For everyday cooking, of course, it’s a bit too much, but there’s a jellied meat or a bird, or a borschik, just right.
Yesterday I made a stew - very, very

Wow, you and I congratulate you on your next purchase !!!
Is that the MV from the auction?
Enjoy your preparations !!
In a week in my miracle (I still can't believe how I got it so spontaneously) I have already prepared baked milk, stewed cabbage and chicken with rice.
And what are your intentions of stuffed potatoes with meat. What is it like?

[Thoroughly prepared strav]

Girls, I myself also bought an MV for 3.5 liters of Comfort. Here
So I have a question in connection with the development (although I read the topic up and down). Modes - their 3-fishing, hand, auto. There is a catch with this car - is it equal to the heating mode? If so, why is it actively boiling on it. In the instructions for moving the record - sorry for surzhik, where I can in Russian - the auto mode is used for Thoroughly prepared strav. Pislya cooking or pidirgrivu gravy in low (high) modes, the control button on the car is bridged. And how is this to be understood? Heating does not come out, but then what? I really thought that if the car, then maybe it maintains the set temperature. Let's say it was small, so it doesn't boil, the hand boils. I put milk today and for the sake of experiment - I turned it on right away - according to the idea, if the pan is cold, then according to my lame theory it should not be heated. And nifiga ... Warms and heats decently. My husband scattered my theory to dust, said that I was stupid and it would have been buttons, then - yes (about stupid - I did not argue, tomorrow March 8 and I still have time to recoup). And I have tumblers, which means I set one more mode. In short, of course, this is not critical, but I would like to know if I have a varm mode or enough fishing mode for heating.

Thank you. And you happiness, health and complete well-being

And most importantly, all this is at night. You just need to have a good ventilation system in the apartment. Although I turned on the hood for the night, I don't close the door in the kitchen much (the cat is walking around). So today I raved all night that I was standing with a tray in a huge queue (in the Soviet canteen, who remembers) and this queue would never reach me.

it's very hard to sleep, now I often sleep in the salon, I turn on the slow cooker on the stove, and the kitchen and the salon are one room for us, just like Sharikov sleep

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Girls, well, does anyone have an MV mode auto? (cry of one crying in the desert)

IRR, I have it, but I have never used it, so I can't say anything

Baked milk actually turns out without problems.And fermented baked milk from it is generally a dream! Just don't make my mistake - I put on hi for the night (the first time I didn't know, the second time I mixed up the modes), and the milk curdled. And at low it turns out great!

And I already made baked milk 3 times on a high High mode. It languished for at least 6 hours and did not curl up even once. Maybe it also depends on the quality of milk?

[rusja]

I did razik on "low", razik on "high" ... the difference was only in time ... it did not curl up ...
Agree with rusja... Probably, the quality of the milk really influenced at a high mode, who is curtailed ..

what MV

these bourgeois, they cut such a beautiful slow cooker and made a brazier out of it \ a lot of photos of the process \
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From one slow cooker, two devices turned out - a brazier - one time and a ceramic pan with a lid for simply using in the oven. To put this on the table in front of the guests - chic! We, too, could boo (if it cost 3 kopecks. Such one ceramic pot with a lid costs from 30 to 40 bucks, depending on the size. And more)

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Girls, well, does anyone have an MV mode auto? (cry of one crying in the desert)

IRR, I also have a 3.5 liter Comfort. And the "auto" mode also puzzled me. I was looking, looking, still looking, and I found this information: we prepare an hour for the hand (to make it boil), switch to fishing (for gentle cooking), and when ready, we switch to auto (this is the hottest mode) so that our dish warms up well and then it didn't deteriorate quickly. Here.

, and when ready, we switch to auto (this is the hottest mode) so that our dish warms up well and then does not deteriorate quickly. Here.

well, you have to try .. I was sure it was heating

well, wow

Itself is shocked! I didn’t use this "car" before. Ready - then you can eat. And for a family of 3 people 3.5 liters. it is for one time. And since nothing was stored, then nothing was spoiled.
I found here at Elena Stoyanova 33 pages of text about our MV:
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[Viki]

My heart sensed that this regime is not so simple! Thank you, Viki! And if he is the hottest, he can start with him. Well, like, to boil faster? And then you can go fishing. In general, to be honest, it's not very convenient for me (if set at night). I come to my senses and remember (that I have nothing to eat for breakfast) around 11 at night. By 12 I throw everything and put it on high, then I have to wake up in 3 hours (at 3 am!) And switch to fishing. And then another hours at 6 am for the third time switch to the car. And how is all this to be understood? But, one day, (not yet knowing what there is a car and thinking that it is heating,) I brought buckwheat on it, it was delicious! I know, I know, now you will advise - bet for a day. I'd better go study the link. Viki,

well, you have to try .. I was sure it was heating

could not be heated in any way, it was boiling actively. Even more.

[quote]

I found there about the auto mode -quoteMy slow cooker without a timer, alas, but, in addition to the weak and strong modes, there is an automatic one (it brings it to a boil, and then switches to a weak one on its own). Otak from. here is the explanation of the car - turned it on, boiled and without your participation switched to fishing. HURRAH!!!

here is the explanation of the car - turned it on, boiled and without your participation switched to fishing. HURRAH!!!

And after Lowe, does he not switch back to cars?

What's the point?
The main thing here is to boil (and how can it be without it?), Then to languish. This is a slow cooker. And here are these 2 modes without your participation. Although ... you must try empirically (or read)

[IRR]

here is the explanation of the car - turned it on, boiled and without your participation switched to fishing. HURRAH!!!

I do not believe!!! Can mechanics switch themselves?
IRR, have you read all 33 pages at a time? On the 12th I already went to load the food into the pan.

I do not believe!!! Can mechanics switch themselves?

And I also have doubts about her self-switching
Has anyone already tried this function?

put peppers on the car now .. let's see what happens

[Viki]

Viki, I, too, after reading, went dumped everything out of the refrigerator and loaded it into a saucepan overnight. Chicken (leftovers), buckwheat, frozen peppers, tomato paste, in short, all this vinigrette. And put it on the car at 12 at night. At 3 it blew up, already boiled, and left it. And at 6 in the morning - already ... it was almost not boiling. From one edge it bubbled lazily - well, it always warms me a little more from one edge. Fine. I wanted to write in the morning, but my grief happened - I wanted to wipe my pot from the inside (and why did I get there?: -X It was clean) and I have a handle left from my dear saucepan, remained in my hands. Cracked and fell off ah-ah, what a grief. And after all I read that this is their sore spot and Zest warned ...: (And it was completely empty, only the body, not heavy at all, But, apparently, I somehow turned it around, they turned out to be so fragile ... Here, I am suffering now. One thing pleases that this auto mode worked. Well, to consolidate I suggest everyone try it. Yes, and by the way, I read all 33 pages yesterday and read one more thread in parallel. It was so interesting to read since 2006 - no one knew what kind of an animal such a CF was and where to get it, then the people got bloated, and then we pulled ourselves up I read until 1 am.My told me that I needed to be treated for kitchen addiction (and before I offered it to them, only from the computer)

Yes ... IRA, please accept my condolences ... Did the handle fall off the ceramic pot? Or from the iron in which to cook directly? Maybe they can still be saved ?!
I also remember here somewhere I met such a warning, but then I did not have CF, not all of what I said came without practice.
But I have a Kenwood 706 mechanical and there is no car, but only a varm, I kept fermented baked milk on it for 2 hours for heating-fermentation. And the instructions do not recommend keeping on the warm for more than 2 hours. And the car is probably a different mode, not the same with the varm?

[IRR]

IRR, too - woe to me! I have both handles superglue glued together and not entirely, but from small parts. I haven't said hello to her for a long time.

You just calmed me down! I will have enough superglue in the morning, I will play around. "Mexican passions" turned out. Wouldn't you read it for the night and sho? Think-guess in the morning - what to bungle children? Viculya, and you on auto have you tried? or
Rusya, no, God had mercy not on the ceramic, on the casing itself, where it will be heated. elements pass.

[Vic]

Viculya, and you on auto have you tried? or

I have not tried it yet, but I will definitely try. I'll wait for something else for us Gypsy will tell. You are the pioneers with her, I am behind you.

[Gypsy]

I have not tried it yet, but I will definitely try. I'll wait for something else for us Gypsy will tell. You are the pioneers with her, I am behind you.

well, I have 6.5 liters .. I poured everything cold .. it got hot already, I hope that the truth will boil

well, I have 6.5 liters .. I poured everything cold .. it got hot already, I hope that the truth will boil

Gypsy, why cold? You always taught us hot. ??? Or for the purity of the experiment?

And after all I read that this is their sore spot and Zest warned ...

Damn!!! I hear it for the first time!!! And I seem to read in a row !!! Did the handles fall off the ceramic bowl? And I, damn it, with her, full of boiling broth, rush around the kitchen !!!

[Girls]

Girls... and those whose handles fell off, filled the pan with boiling water (or not water)?
Maybe she's cracking from this?

IRR, for the experiment of course

Hairpin, the sore spot for MV is the handles on by railth pan