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like recipies is what im looking for mainly and some cooking tips thanks!!!!

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Many of your favorite recipes can be successfully adapted to the crockpot or slow cooker if you follow a few simple rules. You’ll find a basic time/temperature guide for converting recipes, some do’s and don’ts for specific ingredients and a few tips for making your slow cooker dishes more flavorful. Liquids Generally, liquids may be decreased in slow cooking – a general rule of thumb is about half the recommended amount. Unless the dish contains rice or pasta, one cup of liquid is usually enough. Pasta and Rice When recipes call for cooked pasta to be added, cook it until just slightly tender before adding to the pot. Add 1/4 extra liquid per 1/4 cup uncooked rice, and use long grain converted rice for the best results. For long-cooking recipes, add cooked rice shortly before serving. Beans It is usually best to soak beans overnight before cooking them in the crockpot. Before adding sugar or acidic ingredients, the beans should be softened first, either in the slow cooker or on the stove top. If your recipe includes tomatoes, salt, or other acidic ingredients, the beans should be tender before beginning. Herbs and Spices Ground herbs and spices tend to dissipate over long cooking times, so it’s best to add them near the end of cooking. Whole herbs release flavors over time, so are a good choice for crockpot cooking. You should taste and adjust seasonings, if necessary, before serving. Milk/Cheese Milk, sour cream, and cream break down over long periods of cooking, and should be added during the last hour. Condensed cream soups are good substitutions for milk and can be cooked for extended times. “Healthy,” or reduced fat cream soups can be used in any recipe as a substitute. Cheeses don’t generally hold up over extended periods of cooking, so should be added near the end of cooking, or use processed cheeses and spreads. Soups Add water only to cover ingredients in soup, and add more after cooking if necessary for a thinner soup. For milk based soups, add 1 or 2 cups of water and during the last hour, stir in milk, evaporated milk, or cream as called for. Vegetables Dense vegetables like potatoes, carrots, and other root vegetables should be cut no larger than 1″ thick, and placed in the bottom of the pot, since they take longer to cook

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I come from a long line of cooks and our kitchens have always been a place for us to express our creativity. Both women and men cooked in my family and frequently teased each other as to who was the best cook (without a doubt, it was my mother).   My brother had a cooking show on one of the local networks years ago and the family Bar-B-Que recipe is still one of our favorites.   However, I am the only one who has that ‘secret recipe’ as my mother entrusted it to me.   My father, grandfathers, my mother and my grandmother each had a different Bar-B-Que recipe, but it was my mother’s that was the favorite at all family picnics and church gatherings.   I inherited my family’s love of culinary adventure, but not quite as much of the talent! So, you know anytime a new gadget or something comes on the market that will send me to the kitchen, my husband knows I am going to get it.   I do have a few favorite gadgets, though – like my slow cooker, which is great to have dinner ready if we are going to be gone for the day, and food processor. These things I just cannot do without when it comes to easy, fast preparation and great meals. The first slow cooker, and originally known as the crock-pot, has been around since the early 1970’s. By 1991, the slow cooker had generated over $30 billion in sales. Believe it or not, I still have the original one my mother bought back then. It has participated in many Sunday roast dinners with all the trimmings.   Slow cooking rendered the toughest cuts of meat to falling-off-the-bone-tender and added the flavor of the vegetables to the juices in the pot. The slow cookers weren’t very attractive back then, and have evolved over the years.   My mother’s famous chicken and dumplings were cooked in that old slow cooker and that is the dish she took to every church dinner at the request of everyone! We have since upgraded to a larger slow cooker with lid locks and handles. My husband’s favorite slow cooked dinner is roast with potatoes, carrots and gravy.   Mine is a chicken dish. In the morning, I put two skinless chicken breasts in the slow cooker, add a cup of rice, water for cooking (water amount depends on what type of rice you use – white, brown or basmati – our favorite), and add a jar of Seeds of Change Tikka Masala curry sauce on top, cook all day and it is ready by the time we get home from work.   The chicken and the rice absorb all the flavors and it is yummy!  Serve with a tossed salad and you have a complete healthy and delicious meal! I couldn’t begin to tell you how my mother made her chicken and dumplings.   We could never duplicate that recipe. She just had that special loving touch and evidently, a secret to her incredible dumplings.   The great thing about a slow cooker is that you can cook just about anything from meat dishes, to pasta dishes, dessert and bread. It also saves on the electric bill and in the summer keeps the kitchen from heating up since you don’t have to turn on the oven for a few hours to cook. And believe me, living in a hot, humid climate like we do, that is worth it in itself!

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I am cooking a pork roast with veggies, know it will cook faster on the high setting, but will the settings affect the outcome of the meat, such as tenderness, or is it all simply a matter of how long you want to cook it for?

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This is my first attempt using new Rival Slow cooker versi-crock pot…..
I put an onion in the bottom …then added butterfly pork chops with salt and pepper…then added 32 oz sauerkraut w/juice on top of that with about 1/4 cup of brown sugar…….I have it on low setting and plan on cooking about 8 hours…
Do you think this will be good..its starting to smell good right now….any other things you would add?

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My husband & I bought a slow cooker yesterday. Just wondering if anyone has any tips or handy hints for using slow cookers.
Thanks

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Many of your favorite recipes can be successfully adapted to the crockpot or slow cooker if you follow a few simple rules. You’ll find a basic time/temperature guide for converting recipes, some do’s and don’ts for specific ingredients and a few tips for making your slow cooker dishes more flavorful.

Liquids

Generally, liquids may be decreased in slow cooking – a general rule of thumb is about half the recommended amount. Unless the dish contains rice or pasta, one cup of liquid is usually enough.

Pasta and Rice

When recipes call for cooked pasta to be added, cook it until just slightly tender before adding to the pot. Add 1/4 extra liquid per 1/4 cup uncooked rice, and use long grain converted rice for the best results. For long-cooking recipes, add cooked rice shortly before serving.

Beans

It is usually best to soak beans overnight before cooking them in the crockpot. Before adding sugar or acidic ingredients, the beans should be softened first, either in the slow cooker or on the stove top. If your recipe includes tomatoes, salt, or other acidic ingredients, the beans should be tender before beginning.

Herbs and Spices

Ground herbs and spices tend to dissipate over long cooking times, so it’s best to add them near the end of cooking. Whole herbs release flavors over time, so are a good choice for crockpot cooking. You should taste and adjust seasonings, if necessary, before serving.

Milk/Cheese

Milk, sour cream, and cream break down over long periods of cooking, and should be added during the last hour. Condensed cream soups are good substitutions for milk and can be cooked for extended times. “Healthy,” or reduced fat cream soups can be used in any recipe as a substitute.

Cheeses don’t generally hold up over extended periods of cooking, so should be added near the end of cooking, or use processed cheeses and spreads.

Soups

Add water only to cover ingredients in soup, and add more after cooking if necessary for a thinner soup.

For milk based soups, add 1 or 2 cups of water and during the last hour, stir in milk, evaporated milk, or cream as called for.

Vegetables

Dense vegetables like potatoes, carrots, and other root vegetables should be cut no larger than 1″ thick, and placed in the bottom of the pot, since they take longer to cook.

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Slow cooker is a very useful cooking appliance to create delicious meals. You could gather many different slow cooker recipes to get ideas. Slow cooker is sometimes called the crock pot. This is an electrical kitchen appliance capable of cooking meals in a low temperature. You could easily prepare for gourmet for the whole family using this. It cooks on slow temperatures to tenderize meat. This process is done to avoid overcooking or burning. Meat is submerged in water or any mix while it slowly tenderizes. The liquid evaporates slowly in low heat. At the same time, the meat is able to absorb the flavors of the mixture. Even if you cook your meal in a longer period of time, the taste of the food would not change. Not all foods will taste good when cooked with a crock pot. This is important to note so that you will be guided accordingly. Hence it is important to gather recipes and see which ones are okay with a slow cooker. Try to experiment on your own also and see if you could deviate from some recipes. This is important so that you and your family can enjoy a new kind of recipe. You can also make your own recipe using your slow cooker. You just have to be very keen enough that you make the very delicious recipe and that can be your specialty that can be enjoyed by your family. There are recipes you will find that is good to serve for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Even vegetarians can make their own slow cooker recipe to enjoy. You actually have large option of slow cooker recipe to experiment. The very common slow cooker recipe is the roast beef. Almost everyone loves it. Many people yearn to learn how it is done. It is a part of a beef cut and roasted usually done in an oven. It is commonly put in sandwiches or served with rice or potatoes. This is also the traditional Sunday dinner for some places in Europe, Australia and America. This is often served with a side dish called the Yorkshire puddings. You might be surprised to know that roast beef will taste better and more delicious when it is done through a slow cooker. Your family can surely enjoy a new taste of roast beef if you have done it through slow cooker. Of course, before cooking you should have the complete ingredients. The main ingredient is the boneless beef, seasonings and garnishing. To start the process, the first thing to do is to take off all the fats of the beef. Afterwards, cut the beef to smaller pieces to fit the crock pot. Put the vegetables in the slow cook, and then the meat comes next. Create a mixture of water, sauce, beef granules and basil. Pour the mixture over the vegetable and the meat. After doing these, you are ready to put on your slow cooker. On high temperature you can have your roast beef done in 5 to 6 hours but in slow temperature, this can be done in 10 to 12 hours. You can always improvise whatever you have in your refrigerator and replace the ingredients mentioned. Cook it suitably to the preferential taste of the family. Some would make it a bit spicy and put peppers or diced chili. Others like the flavor of meat to really come out and will just add sparse seasonings.

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The great thing about using a slow cooker is that you can prepare your meal in about 15 minutes and not have to worry about it anymore. When I rise in the morning, it seems that this is the time of day when I feel the most energized. This makes it an ideal time to add all of the ingredients into my slow cooker and head off to work. Who wants to work all day and then come home and spend an hour or two preparing dinner? Not me! Though slow cookers will save you a lot of time, there are a few tips I can give you that can help you use your slow cooker more effectively. The first thing that you can do to save time is prepare your foods the night before and refrigerate them. This will save you time in the morning because you only need to place your ingredients in the slow cooker and you are done! Some foods such as rice and pasta you will not be able to prepare ahead of time but most foods can be. Just do as much as you can. After all, you have enough to do in the morning with getting ready for work, breakfast, the kids and so on. Being that the majority of popular slow cookers only have two settings of low and high, I have found that cooking on the lowest setting gives me the best results. A common problem with slow cookers is that they cook too hot and if you use the high setting, you have a good chance of overcooking your meal. I have never overcooked any food by using the low setting. Programmable crock pots are also an excellent idea because they make it literally impossible to cook something incorrectly because you can set and forget. Many slow cooker recipes call for vegetables and if you are going to use fresh ones, you will want to plave these under the meat as they will take longer too cook. Canned vegetables cook fast and should be placed over the meat. Also, it is a good idea to thaw out the meat before placing it in the crock pot. Some people will put a frozen roast in a slow cooker but I have found that my roasts have cooked better when they are thawed out first. I hope that these small suggestions will help you utilize your slow cooker better and save you time. You will find that as you use your slow cooker more and gain experience, you will develop your own habits and find other ways to save time.

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West Bend slow cookers are the best. It is a well known fact the recognition the recognition of slow cookers has reduced enormously during the past few decades, but, recently, some new version of these cookers have taken the market by storm and these are finding new loyalists with each passing day- thanks to the fact that these cookers provide the food with ideal pressure and heat, which permits the food to cook at an optimum rate. Thus, food cooked using these cookers is palpably more healthy as well as tastier.
During the 70s, these cookers were introduced as substitutes of regular cooking hardware available at that time. They permitted for abandoned cooking of standard home food such as stew, rice and other dishes.
The rationale why nutrition is preserved in food cooked using slow cookers is the food is cooked using indirect heat from the heating elements, which builds up slowly.
The slow cooker is a particularly helpful appliance, simple and suitable to use. You can prepare the meal early in the morning. In the morning just take the dish out of the chiller and place it in the main unit. Your supper will be prepared by supper time.
Slow cookers or crockpots are one of the best methods to prepare a meal for a busy mom that needs to be all over the place every day. You can prepare the food on the previous day, keep it in boxes in the fridge and quickly get it going in the slow cooker in the morning. The food remains fresh in the slow cooker for several hours which means the the food can keep for a bit till the family is prepared for eating. Slow cookers put out tiny heat into a room, making them a wonderful way to prepare hot meals in the summertime. As you are using the longer cooking times at a lower heat, you should buy the less expensive cuts of meat and the long cooking process will make sure the meat turns out extraordinarily juicy and tender.
It is important that you always defrost meat and cut it into small pieces. Full roasts or chickens will cook so slowly that the beef may remain cool long enough to encourage bacterial expansion. Most slow cookers should be 1/2 to 2/3 full for all recipes. Removing the lid permits heat to flee, and often increases required cooking time by at least 20 minutes for every time you take away the lid. West Bend slow cookers will work the best. So resist the temptation!
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