Slow cookers: model selection, features, reviews

Cooked millet milk porridge in a new baby with Ali.
I put 150 ml of cereal and 1050 ml of milk + water liquid, I like it this way, the volume ratio is 1: 7.
It turned out "to the eyeballs", that is, 1200 ml in this poltorashka - somehow a bit too much ...

I decided to start with the "auto" mode, watch how it will warm up.
Milk from the refrigerator, it was about 900 ml.
After 1 hour - the temperature is 60C, after one and a half - 77C, after 2 - 93C. Then she came up after 10 minutes - it was clearly boiling around the edges, did not wait for what would happen next, since the lid was already a little mushy, turned off the "auto" and turned on the "low".
Another hour, and here it is - a wonderfully boiled porridge in a slow way!

Nothing burnt (from above you can see a slight "darkening-hint-to-crust" and at the bottom along the very edge a little bit, but this is so, nonsense, it was washed easily))).
Next time, I will reduce the number of products, and still try to cook fully automatically.

Cooked millet milk porridge in a new baby with Ali

Lyudmila, thanks - I'm also waiting with Ali next week. I took it mainly for morning porridge. Please share your experience like what

[Ludmila]

buckwheat slowly, at night, please tell me

I want to too! tell me pliiiz! I want to learn how to cook porridge slowly at night!
bought too little

sore head

I really want to charge it at night, but it's scary

share your experience how and what

i ask too
Ludmila, with your first initiative, Kashka turned out to be cool and quite a lot of it, but still, you probably need to take a little less food

At the moment, I have a chicken frozen on a low for 8 hours. Well, in the sense I put it at 12-00 .. then I'll tell you what happened.

frozen chicken

whole? how did it fit in a tiny little slow-motion?

whole?

Well, okay, Vic .. Cut into pieces ..

I also bought a whale, now I'm looking at the parameters and I'm worried that the duck won't fit, but I'll have to pick it up from the store since I paid in advance ...

It depends on what kind of duck, the chicken fits well.

the chicken fits quite well.

Well, I still have 1.5 MD .. chopped chicken, three pieces fit somehow. 5.5 hours and everything was very soft ..

[gawala]

gawala, and what is MD?

and what is MD?

Slow cooker.

Ah ... I thought it was autocorrect about the weight of the chicken

Ah ... I thought it was autocorrect about the weight of the chicken

Well practically ..

I am a whale too

so it is also normal in size, I have a duck easily in 3.5 liters. These are toy sizes. Really, as if a pot from a children's set

three pieces fit somehow.

3 wings probably yeah .. so how does it taste?

[Mirabel]

Mirabel, the main thing is that it is not round, otherwise I have such a shape of dishes, mainly herring makers and not far from them in height, a baking dish

3 wings probably

Wings, legs and tails ..
There was definitely a wing. Breast piece and something like a spinal cord. Homemade chicken, young, small.

... how does it taste?

Well, how, how? Tasty .. And Martochka liked it too. The broth with the rest of the plate was reduced ..

Mark liked it too

this name often flashes in your posts. At first I thought it was your daughter, then she got there.
well class! is the broth transparent? can you fill it with something and turn it into soup?

docha

This matron's name is Marianne.

is the broth transparent? can you fill it with something and turn it into soup?

But there is no Broth. I did it without a gram of water. There were 50 grams of broth in total, and Martha ate that.

name is Marianne.

Handsomely!

I did without a gram of water

understandably! I thought I was cooking with water.

Active users of slow cookers, please advise!
By winter, I traditionally want a slow cooker, but I definitely won't use it more than a couple of times a month. And it takes up a lot of space. I have a decent oven, it keeps the temperature from 50 degrees. If I was planning a slow cooker for meat and broths, how would I simulate it in the oven? Necessarily ceramic dishes, or, for example, glazed cast iron will also work as a slow cooker in the oven?

! I thought I was cooking with water.

Vic, it turned out so delicious. it is something with something .. There was nothing but salt. Today I ate it cold with vegetables ..

[Cifra]

Cifra,
The slow cooker is an electric analogue of the Dutch Oven, that is, a roaster in which dishes have been simmering for a long time in the oven or in the oven.
I have already forgotten the correspondence of temperatura and time, but they exist, you can find and adapt

[brendabaker]

brendabakerthen cast iron should work too, thanks!

b] Cifra [/ b],



In my book * The new slow cooker *, yes, I think that in many other books about the slow cooker there are instructions on how to cook dishes from the book in cast iron, in the oven



That is, preheat the oven to 165 ℃ and calculate the time 1 hour in the oven = 3-3.5 hours in a slow cooker.

Dutch oven

🔗 - offer to translate the page - very interesting

all nations followed the same cooking path

And what I was surprised at is the temperature table - the temperature does not go down as I thought (an analogue of a cast iron cooling in a furnace), but on the contrary, it grows. An interesting algorithm.

Today I again made dumplings in Kitfort, I painted the whole process, took a picture and posted it in the topic about kitfort

Thank you so much, now I will do this too!

[Anna67]

Anna67,
Like an oven, the dish gains temperature for a long time, due to which the products have time to * make friends * with each other, then they boil a little, then languish for a couple of hours with a falling temperature.
In Kitfort, with a load of 2 liters of liquid, I watched how in about 2.5-3 hours the dish approached the boiling point, then, for about an hour, 3 intermission * boiling *, apparently, to equalize the temperature in the entire bowl, and then 2 hours the temperature drops from boil to complete calm in the bowl.

[brendabaker]

brendabaker, and here I am a brake, I thought the pots were put in a "switched off" cooling oven and the temperature went down.
Tomorrow is my birthday, I will finally try to spit on my sore side to get to work and to the slow in the store ...

[brendabaker]

brendabaker, are you satisfied with the kitfort? Does her case get very hot during operation?

[Cifra]

Cifra,
The body and the lower part get quite hot, not the body handles.
I am satisfied with Kitfort, while (the company is not known, I do not know how long it will serve) I am more satisfied than with the previous models of slow cookers.
It prepares everything I need from a slow cooker:
baked milk, cottage cheese, cabbage rolls, whole potatoes and beans, at night I cook chicken broth, cook buckwheat for the dog and myself.
Stews chicken in tomato and sour cream, cooks from frozen vegetable mixtures,
For the sake of fun, I made pizza and shop dumplings in it, everything went with a bang the first time.




Of the shortcomings, I note:
Heats the countertop underneath, I put it on the met. lattice

[brendabaker]

brendabaker, sounds tempting. With such heating, the case can be safely kept on a wooden tabletop, do you think?

[brendabaker]

In one of my two identical kitforts, the bowl 5a is several millimeters narrower than in the other, as a result the bowl fidgets and the lid overlaps the grooves in the bowl intended for the steam to escape and sometimes starts * jumping * inexpensive time.
She coped with fidgeting and jumping by placing a foil

under the bowl and a little foil under the lid in MAX mode

brendabaker, sounds tempting. With such heating, the case can be safely kept on a wooden tabletop, do you think?

No, you can't, you must definitely put something like a glass board,

Or something else that is heat-resistant, such as a metal grill.
Well, you need a socket, an on-off timer

[brendabaker]

brendabaker, oh, thanks, it's good that I asked, I'll think

In another apartment, I just put the slow cooker on the glass ceramic surface of the stove.



Virgo, I keep forgetting to tell you that pots with a Tonze 0.7 lid on a water bath just amazingly fit into Kitfort's bowl

The real volume of the pot is 0.6 l, just for one full plate of porridge

With such heating, the case can be safely kept on a wooden tabletop, do you think?

No, you can't, you must definitely put something like a glass board,

It's strange, I didn't measure the temperature under it, but Kitty is standing on a wooden board and there are no problems, no traces of hot or something like that. Maybe they heat up differently from below?

[Dina]

Dina, do you use it at night? Or if suddenly during the day, you can see how real heating is there?
Otherwise, all my surfaces are wooden, and I suffer. It is inconvenient on the stove, since I once or twice a month cook a long dish in large quantities, and I also need a hob with a slow cooker

and my little one cooked such a cool cough yesterday! 2 full servings are obtained in it. Okay !!!

[Deana]

Deana,
Kenwood has clearer instructions on this matter, and I follow it out of habit, but the choice, of course, is up to the owner




Mirabel,
Vika, please write in more detail about this porridge so that you can repeat
Congratulations, I too will someday wait for my small slow cooker

[Oksana]

Oksana, Oksan, everything is extremely simple!
about three quarters of a multi-glass of rice and millet, water-milk-4 multi-glasses. So-sah, stir. 2 hours on High, stir and a little more on Low. and all the cases
It turned out 2 decent portions of porridge, for my crumbs, normal proportions, so as not to fill up to the limit.
I have 1 liter slow.

Who cooked millet? And then I bought millet today, I wanted millet porridge. What are the correct proportions.?

[Galina]

Galina, dairy?

dairy?

Of course .. I don’t recognize porridge on the water, well, except for buckwheat ..

Porridge on the water is not porridge but a side dish. Well, except for buckwheat.
I'll sit and listen, otherwise I have to all milk 1: 4.

And I have 1: 7 for millet, in a slow one it just boils well.
Shown recently the result, 2 pages back.
2 hours high and one hour low.

And I have 1: 7 for millet

7 glasses of milk per glass of millet? Oh, I don’t have that much milk .. Can’t less milk?

Do not offer milk to dilute with water?

So dilute the milk with water!
Less, of course, is possible, but it will not be that.)) But this is for my taste.

Do not offer milk to dilute with water?

I already have it 1.8%
Okay, you can figure it out with water-milk. How long does it take?

How long does it take?

Duc

2 hours high and one hour low