/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13665390
Upsides: nice to come home to hot food. Very little effort for prep. Very convenient if you have kids and have to deal with sports and other activities.

Cons: everything tastes like salt. Things get mushy. No flavor differentiation.

>>13665409
if the food coming out of your slow cooker is bad, you're the problem

>>13665429
What do you expect from a retarded redditor who just comes here to steal the 1 in a billion non-reddit posts to repost on reddit.

>>13665429
t.shill for Big Crock Pot

>>13665390
There is nothing a slow cooker can do that an oven and roasting pan can’t do better.

>>13665476
>caramelize onions
>be efficient

>>13665390
Are they worth what?

>>13665390
As a single guy it's the best $30 I've spent.

>>13665487
You shouldn’t tell people you caramelize onions in a slow cooker. That’s embarrassing. Also how are ovens inefficient? I use mine all the time and maybe 15% of my power bill is actually paying for the power I used. The rest is service fees.

>>13665494
what's embarrassing about it?
do you need to be explained why using 250 watts is more efficient than using 2500 watts to do the same thing?

>>13665511
Except a slow cooker is always using energy whereas an oven is only heating when it needs to. Once it reaches temperature, it shuts off until it starts to cool down. I guess you third worlders with your hot plate kitchens don’t know how ovens work...

>>13665520
wow this might be the dumbest argument i've even seen on 4chan, thanks

>>13665532
>t. no oven

>>13665542
what's this bizarre projection?
are ovens a luxury appliance in your shithole?

>>13665548
Why do you keep acting like you have one? The only people who would use a slow cooker over an oven either don’t have an oven or they don’t know how to use it, and not knowing how to use it would be way more embarrassing than just not having one. Slow cookers are a joke and by defending them you’re just telling us your idea of cooking is throwing shit in an appliance and walking away for 12 hours. Why are you here?

>>13665390
Unitasker version of the electric pressure cooker. Very much not worth it.

>>13665561
>Why are you here?
i'm not the one who can't fathom making good food in a pot

>>13665582
You’re a lazy faggot making excuses for everything you cook being a mushy stew.

>>13665582
no oven cope

>>13665592
no, you're just a one dimensional retard who can't use tools properly and assumes that means no one can

>>13665598
samefag desperation

>>13665606
This is the most pathetic response you could possibly come up with. You use a slow cooker because you don’t know how to cook. It’s the only reason to use one.

>>13665619
t. one dimensional retard

>>13665616
>no one else could possibly disagree with my retardation
>I will accuse him of samefagging
You already know you’re wrong...

>>13665629
>the guy defending slow cookers calling others one dimensional
kek cuz mush has so many dimensions

>>13665630
lmao you deleted the wrong (you) stupid iphone faggot

>>13665635
sorry you're too dumb to use a pot

>>13665634
This is why no one likes leftists. You think covering your eyes, plugging your ears, and crying wins you an argument. No one who isn’t a progressive could possibly be this big of a sopping vagina...

>>13665641
sorry you're too dumb to use a pot

>>13665640
Sorry you’re too dumb to use anything more complicated than high and low settings.

>>13665645
what is 2+2 if you’re so smart, mr African National

>>13665646
sorry you think an oven is complicated because you're too dumb to even use even a simple pot

>>13665648
He’s not African...

>>13665652
Cool. Enjoy your mush, faggot.

>>13665656
i will, retard

>>13665661
I really shouldn’t be surprised a street shitter doesn’t have an oven I guess...

>>13665670
at least i'm not too dumb to use a pot

>>13665390
They are extremlely based and well worth it.

>>13665673
You keep saying that as if I didn’t have one, try it, then give it away because it’s trash. I know this might be a difficult concept for you, but I have money, and if I buy something and don’t like it, I get rid of it. You’re defending a pot with high and low settings as if you need to be a fucking genius to use it. You’re literally telling us what a lazy fucking retard you are. Don’t stop, it’s hilarious.

>>13665679
you failed at using a pot because you're not smart
now you're angry and projecting your failure onto others

>>13665686
Ya, you’re definitely either a pajeet or a flip. No one else thinks their own ignorance makes them superior like pajeets and flips. So which is it?

>>13665691
ignorance of what exactly?
i'm not the one losing my shit over not being able to produce good food in a pot

>>13665695
You only think it’s good because you don’t have an oven. You are ignorant because you claim superiority over a superior cooking method because you have only used the inferior one.

>>13665703
i mean if you actually believe this, that's fine
i don't think anyone who has access to the internet hasn't used an oven before, seems like a pretty retarded assumption
but won't overestimate the intellect of someone who can't even make good food in a pot

>>13665476
>Slow cooker
>Set and forget it
>8 hours later, you get home from work to hot food

>Oven and roasting pan
>Set and forget it
>8 hours later, you get home from work to see your house is burnt like your dinner

>>13665716
>no one who has access to the internet doesn’t have an oven
You mean like 99% of the households in China?
>>13665717
Further proof you can’t use an oven...

someone please post the crockpot pasta, i'm shocked and saddened that it hasn't been posted yet

>>13665728
You seem to be the expert in oven not having itt

>>13665390
They make bad food. Low temperatures, no browning = bad food

>>13665429
Wrong

>>13665757
Ya, cuz I’m not a poorfag who spent his life never going further than the mud fields outside my thatched village. Nothing wrong with being from a third world shithole, just don’t act like you’re better than others for it. Slow cookers are shit. If it’s the best you can do, then it’s the best you can do, but pretending they are superior to an oven is just obnoxious. There’s a reason why chefs don’t use them other than to try and get lazy retards to finally cook a damn meal for themselves.

>>13665851
>try and get lazy retards to finally cook a damn meal for themselves

Yes, and this is a problem, why? With the popularity of fast food and the costs of eating out, having something easy and cheap to use at home is a benefit. The main appeal of slow cookers is in its convenience. Every tool has its place.

>>13665871
Except it’s no more convenient than an oven, and it’s inferior to an oven. You’re just a colossal faggot who will cry endlessly when someone disagrees with you about literally anything. In your mind you cannot be wrong, even tho you very much are. I never said no one should use them. All I said is they are shit compared to an oven, which they are, which you would know if you could actually fucking cook.

>>13665851
No one said they were superior to an oven you retarded straw man

>>13665912
Cry harder faggot

>>13665918
Nou

You sound like a working class chump. I bet you thought it would be a great "investment", how you would wake up to a warm, healthy breakfast to start off your long day. Maybe, you even had a couple thoughts about all the other nifty little uses you could find for the thing, how it would help you cook healthier meals in general, shed a couple pounds off the old gut, boost your confidence around work and with the ladies. Yeah, maybe that slow cooker would start your life cooking again, wouldn't it? I can see your strained hands holding the box and reading through it carefully at the store. A little bit pricey, but you're the type of guy who thinks everything is more than you can spend, aren't you. And look what happened to you. Look what the slow cooker did to you. Fucked you over, and made you clean it like a useless bitch. You don't even fucking like oatmeal. Piece of shit, you've been repeating those three words your whole life, haven't you. Yeah, how was work after that piece of shit fucked you over? I bet it was on your mind the whole day, you probably didn't say shit to nobody. Can't be telling people about your mistakes. How your little fix yourself plan, failed you. Don't want people to start thinking you're the failure. You're the piece of shit, all along. You don't want that do you? You don't want to be the piece of shit everybody secretly whispers about, do you? Was your father a piece of shit like you? I bet he never had a slow cooker. He had a woman, a house, a damn good job. I bet it's slow cooking you the fuck alive, isn't it. Comparing yourself to him. How one day when all the steam runs our of your life, you'll discover how you're nothing more than burnt shit to be scrapped off and thrown in the trash.

Never seen anyone this assblasted about slow cookers before. What's wrong with this board

>>13666106
Sorry, would you prefer we talk about slop o’ shit, mcchickens, and candy?

i use mine mostly in the summer because it doesn't make my kitchen hot

>>13665390
Main reasons to use a slow cooker:

Cost – You can save a few bucks on heating up those expensive rice cooker bags. Some of the best Chinese rice cooker bags are made in USA. You can save a few bucks on heating up those expensive rice cooker bags. Some of the best Chinese rice cooker bags are made in USA.

Storage – A slow cooker keeps your favorite ingredients organized, making it easier to prepare meals. A slow cooker keeps your favorite ingredients organized, making it easier to prepare meals.

Low Maintenance – Unless you cook out in the rain, you don't have to clean and sterilize your cooker all the time. Unless you cook out in the rain, you don't have to clean and sterilize your cooker all the time

>>13665520
Fucking based.

>>13666442
what fucking bags are you talking about?

>>13665494
80% of your light bill is AC.

>>13665390
>How based are slow cookers
>based
we dont use that word here, fuck off back to /v/.
that being said, slow cookers are awesome.
>are they worth it?
they're literally $20.

they're fucking amazing for a busy person who wants good quality cooked food. just throw some meat, spices, sauce and veggies in there before you go to work. when you get home it's ready to eat.

>>13666478
0% of my bill is AC.

>saving energy
if anybody needs more proof that this board has become literally red dit, here it is.

>>13667500
Shut up faggot. You sound gayer than reddit.

>>13667504
cope harder, mutt

https://www.seriouseats.com/2016/10/why-pressure-cookers-are-better-than-slow-cookers.html

this explains why they're shit

>>13667509
Only some faggot from reddit would misspell it. You’re a sheep. A gay sheep.

>>13665390
Good for cooking big tough cuts of beef.

>>13665894
>You’re just a colossal faggot who will cry endlessly when someone disagrees with you about literally anything. In your mind you cannot be wrong, even tho you very much are.
holy christ the irony

>>13667545
Nah, I’m wrong all the time, but not about slow cookers being garbage.

>>13667532
>serious shills

>>13667563
>cope for spending 250 bucks on a slow cooker

>>13665520
>t. middle-school tier understanding of energy and physics

>>13667563
No, pressure cookers are good. They let you cook things that take hours and hours and hours in much less time, like lentils and ox tails. I wouldn’t buy an electric pressure cooker tho. Stovetop works just fine.

>>13667573
Do you faggots really not have ovens? Jesus Christ I thought this board was mostly Americans and Europeans. What are you third worlders doing here?

>>13666029
based slowcooker-pasta poster

>>13667567
my slow cooker was free
my pressure cooker was $500

>>13667578
try actually reading the article you can glean more than the slightly misleading title.

>>13667583
cope harder, brainlet

>>13667590
shut up flyover

>>13667594
No, I have had both and I only kept one. I don’t need to read schilling for the one I already know is good. Plus most of those sites just have food bloggers anyway, not real chefs.

>>13667595
You guys keep saying that but it doesn’t change the fact you can’t bake a pie or roast a turkey

>>13667601
are you a robot or just a double digit iq meme regurgitator?

>>13667607
Turkey best in a air fryer.

>>13667607
just admit you were wrong and don't understand how energy and heat work

>>13667602
you're a paranoid retard

>>13667614
>air fryer
Fuck off tranny, men with dicks outside their bodies are talking

>>13665390
A cast iron dutch oven is better.

>>13667617
>implies I’m wrong
>doesn’t say why
>just admit you’re wrong anon
What did I say that was wrong? That slow cookers constantly use energy? That ovens aren’t constantly heating? Please enlighten us faggot

>>13667621
Based

>>13667621
air fryerlet

>>13667622
i don't love it
turns my lentils fucky colour

>unironically defending this

>>13667628
what's more hillarious than you being wrong and retarded, is the fact that you've been sperging about it for more than 8 hours now

>>13667628
>>implies I’m wrong
>>doesn’t say why
why waste time trying to educate a wooden plank? I'd have more success teach a nigger high-energy physics

>>13667641
So in other words you can’t say what is wrong about what I said. Thought so. Enjoy your slop o’ shit faggot

>>13667634
looks finna based, friendo

>>13667634
>unironically defending this

y'all have never had a good cholent and it shows

>>13667650
More like this

>amerilards defending their instapotty
lmao

stew is the lazy cook's food, it takes no effort or skill and its resulting taste makes that evident

>>13667645
arguing with retards isn't fair

>>13665894
>Except it’s no more convenient than an oven

You don't turn on your oven and leave for work, dipshit. That's why people have slow cookers.

>>13667631
Who eats lentils?

>>13667795
Me

>>13667888
Redpill me on them aren't they just like beans but worse?

>>13667721
Why

>>13665390
Great for making soup, useless for everything else.

>>13665390
Fucking dumpster of a thread, but basically >>13665409. Low effort meals that you can just start when you're going to work of going to bed and forget about until you get home or wake up. But, things do get mushy and flavors can meld together a little too much. It's best to use to prep some part of a meal instead of making a meal with it in itself, at least imo. A good auxiliary weapon to have in the kitchen but not something to fight a battle with on its own. You can find a bunch of slow cooker meal recipes online if you're really into it though.

Care to explain how to set up or use oven so that it can operate completely unattended for 8-10 hours?

>>13667607
And how do you make a soup in the oven?

>>13669487
Why would you? Ovens have burners on top. It would be stupid to make soup in an oven when I have a stove, the same as it would be stupid to cook in a slow cooker when I could just use an oven.

>>13665542
t.NEET with far too much time on his hands.

Slow cooker is an appliance with a specific niche use: when you can't control the time spent between preparation and having the meal ready, and it's of order of several hours.

Leave your roast in the oven for 10 hours, see how it comes out.

>>13669493
>t. no oven, wife, or gf

>>13669492
Oh, you mean a combo with stovetop? No, wait, I'm sure heard oven. Someone here plays an expert on ovens.

>>13669495
Ah, mister "need servants" bourgeoisie, I see.

>>13669495
What shithole do you live in where stoves/ovens aren't required by law to be provided by the landlord?
Don't respond with some shit about not having a landlord either, because if you could afford a house, you could afford a fucking oven.

>>13669493
This. I just made several quarts of meat stock/bone broth, each of which I let go for 12 hours or so. You really wanna have your oven on for 24-7, 3 days in a row? Plus just made about 6 quarts of veggie soup with meat carcasses and veggie trimmings which took a couple days to make because I'm a sickfag, you really wanna leave the stove on for that long? Unless your stove is writing you checks, you stovefags are a bunch of bitches working for your stove instead of your crockpot working for you.

>>13668063
Because your fucking house will burn down

Where did all the water came from? I'd buy a dry cooker if such hing exists

>>13669712
You mean a dehydrator?

>>13665390
>based
Slow cookers are good for only one thing. ruining perfectly good food by effectively boiling them to death.

Learn to cook properly.
>>13665717
>return to find perfectly good ingredients ruined, turned in to a stew of overcooked crap

anything you morons can make in a crock pot I can make in less than an hour and will taste a whole lot better.

>>13667795
poor people and starving vegans.

>>13669484
viking makes an oven that works as a refrigerator and then at a specified time bakes the food in it.

>>13669822
>Learn to cook properly.
ironic statement coming from someone angry at a tool

>>13665390
How would I replace a slow cooker with an oven? Do I just put the whole pot in the oven on top&bottom heat?

>>13670050
I'm not angry at you, or anything.

>>13665390
It makes food taste/feel "muggy".
Is that the right word?

>>13671893
Maybe somewhere else, but we use “muggy” to describe extremely humid air for example. Never heard it used for food.

>>13671902
Yeah, it does make small apartments feel that way though, maybe that's why I thought that

>>13665717
how the fuck do you burn your house down with an oven? some models are able to go all the way up to like 600-700 degrees on the self clean setting.

>>13667614
make sure not to put it in frozen or it might start a fire

Thirdworlder here. I don't know what a slow cooker is. I just have a regular pot. Pressure cooker exist but i rarely use it. Oven exist but i use it exclusively for baking cake or cookies. I don't know what you "Americans" are talking about, but none of you know how to use cooking appliances.

>>13672173
Well, I cooked your mum's appliance last night, if you get my drift.

>>13669487
>And how do you make a soup in the oven?
lol why do you think you can't make a soup in the oven in a heavy pot with a lid?

>>13671919
This is what retards without ovens say to justify their crock pots.

I have personally never made a meal that I was satisfied with using slow cookers. I used it like three times and they were all meh. I moved on.

Sous vide however is amazing as hyped.

anyone have any slow cooker recipies?