Slow cookers: model selection, features, reviews

I did everything.

I know, but we have different slows, I have Kitfort and it's hotter, at first I thought of putting it on Low right away, but I decided to take a chance and start with High, as in your recipe. You see, I was right!

[Svetlenki]

Who's talking about and I'm all about Kitfort ... at home there was 1 pack of frozen Mexican mixture, a little tomato paste, 1 tomato and 3 small zucchini. Having combined all these products, added salt and sugar, I set it to MAX for 3.5 hours using a timer socket. Mixed once and added salt. I call the resulting dish a sauce and pour over boiled pasta, dumplings, buckwheat, or rice with it. You can add garlic, herbs, sour cream, or mayonnaise to your plate.



And what is the color of vegetables - a dream



Svetlenki,
The light will not work as quickly as possible, depending on the volume, the device heats up for 3-4 hours. And the first hour, on both High and Low, the water in it is barely warm. In Kitfort, too, I checked, it starts to cook in different ways on different modes after about 2.5 hours.

Kitforth came to me. I liked it very much at first sight ... And then it realized that there was a problem. Leaving a new device unattended to which it has not yet adapted is scary, but there is no time to sit at home and control.
Right now I put turkey drumsticks in there for a minute, for the night. In a slow cooker, such usually 3.5 hours carcass. I get up early, at 6, and still somehow restless ...

In Kitfort, too, I checked, it starts to cook in different ways on different modes after about 2.5 hours.

Then it turns out that it makes no sense, as they say, an hour for a high, then for a low?

[L_e_a]

L_e_a,
No, there is no point in putting it on for an hour, these are housewives, by analogy with the stove, out of habit, they transfer the cooking template. Before signs of boiling appear, there is a sense, and then, this is hardly necessary for Kitfort (the device is a novelty, there is still little experience)
With any device, at first, it is not calm, until a piggy bank of proven recipes is typed, at first you have to check and try and get used to and write down. Then you can already leave with a timer, which makes life much easier. The device is excellent, I wish you success in mastering it, and do not forget to share with us the recipes of what turned out well.

And it's still somehow restless ..

Buy a circuit breaker. We discussed it well, probably 10 pages ago. Very comfortably. I no longer rack my brains how much, how and what if ... I put it on for 4 hours and left. He will turn off the MV himself.

There is a timer, it's just not yet clear how long to turn it off) I thought it would be ready by morning, and at 3 am I went to the kitchen for some reason and found that the meat was soft and tasty

[gawala]

gawala,
And I, too, set the time and do other things, I will turn off myself at the right time.



L_e_a,
Kitforth has a minimum cooking time (stated in the instructions) of 3 hours for MAX and 4 hours for MIN. Other slow cookers have 4 and 8 hours respectively. Ours will be faster, for me this is his big plus

I just stuffed a frozen chicken leg into MV for 4 hours. I'll see what happens. In the book they write that you can put frozen food and not be afraid that the bowl will burst.

[gawala]

gawala,
Galina, I cooked from frozen poultry, peeping at how Irina (Lerele) does it. And I put the vegetables out of the freezer. This makes life easier for me and I like it. But I insured myself by buying a second Kitfort, while the price for it is small.

But I made sure I bought a second Kitforth

No, well worth it, it's boiled. like everything is safe and sound ..

[gawala]

gawala,
Galina, then I'm in line for a recipe

I'm then in line for a recipe

Oksan, what's the recipe? I took the frozen leg of the dormitory chicken, put it in, salted it. I splashed a little hot water and turned it on for 4 hours. that's all.

[gawala]

gawala,
THANK YOU

And I put the barley porridge to cook. I wonder how she will behave here, in a slow cooker after her, I was tortured to clean the valve.
It's raining now, the weather is perfect to sit at home and see what happens :)

I went and threw a young zucchini in MV to the chicken. Two hours before the end of cooking. Then I'll tell you what happened.

for the recipe

In general, everything was prepared in 2.5 hours. Delicious. Diet, what I just need.

[gawala]

gawala,
Great !!! So I am captivated by the fact that you can safely cook without adding oil, and as a result, everything is so tasty that it goes away * with a bang *



L_e_a,
if you see a lot of foam (which is unlikely to happen), slightly open the lid

Great!

The leg could have been given more time. Well, half an hour is easy. More precisely, not so. It would be necessary to put the zucchini later. But I don't know the cooking time, and I had to leave on business. But for the future I will know that chicken is 3 hours and zucchini is half an hour. In general, delicious. I liked it very much. Especially that you can put frozen food ..

The porridge was cooked, quietly, peacefully, no excess foam, nothing ran away anywhere, as I like, that there will be no need to pick out the cereal from anywhere)

The porridge is cooked

I have muesli with amaranth groats. Today I decided to make porridge out of them. half a glass of muesli and a glass of milk. Cooked for an hour. The result is a delicious and thick porridge. How I love. In a larger amount of liquid, such muesli cannot be cooked, it will be liquid like soup.

[gawala]

half a glass of muesli and a glass of milk.

gawala, Gal, a glass of 250 ml? Milk from the fridge? Which mode? Or do you have one?

glass 250 ml? Milk from the fridge? Which mode? Or do you have one?

From HP, probably 240 ml. From the refrigerator. Hi mode.
Someone's one? And the low has disappeared and I also have an Auto. boasted .. gee ..

[L_e_a]

L_e_a,
Porridge from a slow cooker is tastier than from a multicooker, even oatmeal, which seems to be boiling for 3 hours

Hercules, I usually on the stove in a saucepan for five minutes) I have not yet felt the difference in taste, but definitely not worse and then washing less is already solid pluses)

[L_e_a]

L_e_a,
In a slow cooker, if you take a thicker cereal, boil it for a long time and hold it longer, it turns out, like in baked milk, beige porridge. I cooked in a little slower 3.5 hours on Auto. The downside is that oatmeal loves to form a crust and sticks to the walls stronger than other milk porridge

It sounds good, but for some reason milk porridges don't work here ... And stuffed peppers are next. I recently saw that someone wrote about them, but now I cannot find it. Who did it in Kitfort, tell me, please, how much they cook there?



The question is removed ... Peppers, infections, they did not fit into Kityusha, they turned out to be higher than him :) so I will soon start wanting a big slow ...

stuffed peppers

Stuffed aromatic peppers

As an option. Spiral carrots and frozen chicken leg. 2.5 hours per high. Spices for vegetables and a little corn oil, half a teaspoon and a little water, literally 1 tbsp. l.

[Irsha]

And I again for potatoes, today I cooked for 3 hours and 45 minutes, instead of the usual 2 hours. The variety is different.
Irsha,
Irina, yesterday I remembered your recipe with meat in zucchini sauce, made from chickens. hips 4 hours at MAX. , Very tasty and clean, THANK YOU

The variety is different.

I will definitely buy potatoes for salads. I'll do it, and then I'll write how long it took me to prepare.
The latter was prepared for exactly 2 hours. There were young potatoes.

[gawala]

gawala,
I have imported potatoes for 2 hours, and local, or daddy's almost 4

I have imported potatoes for 2 hours, and local, or daddy's almost 4

Wow, and it happens so.

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[Chef]

Chef, that's cool!!! Thank you so much

gawala, Galina, and your legendary potatoes with rosemary? How did you forget her? Something I can't even find Dina's last question about where to find the recipe. And you gave a link

[Chef]

and your legendary rosemary potato?

did not forget. did ..

Rosemary potatoes (gawala)

and here's another new recipe today

Scrambled eggs in a glass (gawala)

Chef, Thank you!

[gawala]

gawala,
Galina, our theme shone directly, attractive recipes appear one after another, THANKS very much

She also designed bacon bombs with a recipe.

Bacon Bombs (Slow Cooker) (gawala)

[gawala]

gawala, Galina, thank you so much! Now it won't get lost.

Girls, thanks for all the previous tips. I have another question. I cooked beef today. A piece of cheap, usually a carcass in a multicooker. Without water. Onions, meat, herbs, spices. When they began to eat, it turned out that what was on top, in the air, was ready, but not too soft, and that part of the piece that was below, that is, covered with a "broth", that juicy incredibly and literally melts in your mouth. The question arose: how to make the whole piece of meat come out so juicy and tender?

so that the whole piece of meat comes out so juicy and tender?

Maybe turn it over during cooking? I don't know exactly, these are my assumptions. I haven't cooked meat in a piece yet. Only the chicken was cut into 4 pieces .. But I turned the chicken over ..

The question arose: how to make the whole piece of meat come out so juicy and tender?

Turn halfway through cooking

I also thought about turning it over. But then the magic effect "threw in, turned on and went to bed" is lost, maybe it can be somehow easier?)

Today I made another recipe ... The husband did not wait for it to cool down .. He liked it very much.
This is not really a casserole in our understanding. it turns out apples in a thick sauce below, and on top a streusel soaked in this sauce. the mass boils decently and the sauce rises all the way up and soaks the streusel .. It didn't work out nicely. Well what happened. do not judge strictly. But it's delicious. I didn't even expect such a result.

Apple casserole with streusel (slow cooker) (gawala)

[gawala]

gawala,
Galina, we lay out on the bowls, apples below, and on top are pieces of streusel

we lay out on the bowls, apples below, and on top are pieces of streusel

Something didn't work out for me. maybe it was necessary to let it cool? But the husband stood over the soul with a bowl and a spoon.

[gawala]

gawala, Galina, thank you for the delicious recipes!

[gawala]

gawala,
First I shoot with a streusel, then I lay out the apples and put the streusel equally on top of each bowl.



Of course, it's more difficult to remove from a small one than from Kenwood 4.5 liters

Of course, it's more difficult to remove from a small one than from Kenwood 4.5 liters

Precisely, more difficult. Well, okay, the main thing is delicious. In winter, hot - warms, and in summer cold - cools. I would say so. Last night I tasted completely cold. There was such a refreshing taste.

[gawala]

gawala,
I will have to try apple cider instead of wine, add cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom - such a Christmas spirit will go around the apartment

try apple cider instead of wine put

Yes, the cider will be very good.
We somehow do not hold alcohol in high esteem, so there was apple juice.