I miss my gramdmother’s soups and stews, and was wondering how difficult it is to use a slow cooker? Anyone got any experience with these? Can I just chuck stuff in before I go to work and it will be done when I get home?
Hey Fridayman, yes you can throw what ever you fancy in there… I have used one and a pressure Cooker for years you will find many receipies on line…
http://www.recipelink.com/rcpcp.html
Have fun !
Ann x
ahhh slow cookers are amazing! We have an electric one - I put it on in the morning when I leave for work and my stew is ready when I get home and the meat is sooooo tender!
Dead easy to use - especially the ones with the automatic timers.
m
Excellent! Thanks 
One more question though - which one do I get? They all seem to be more or less the same except for size.
We have the cheapest one with a timer that Argos could offer and it’s been fantastic for 3 years now.
m
What! Is this a euphenism to say that Ness’s cooking is crap
This a just as bad as my Thread about fridges.
Can`t wait to see what Flatout will say.
any, they all work just as well, mine is more than 10 years old… Invest if you can in a pressure cooker, tender meat in twenty mins from scratch, soup in 10, great when you have forgotten to put the slow cooker on !
LOL! I’ll pick my words very carefully here… I’d like to share some of the cooking responsibilities 
Ha ha, I am sure he will like the tender meat !
Can you get electric pressure cookers?
err no…
Although being a smart pants one day I put mine on top of the stove with a bit of force (it was heavy) and I cracked the ring and a nice big blue flash went through the pot, hey does that mean I invented the first electric pressure cooker ! 
Right, I’m off crockpot shopping!
shhhhh! can’t you see he’s about to take over cooking dinner every night?!
For all of us… Oh goody ! I will have stewed steak please…
With Dumplings I hope…eh Debz?;)
Why are you talking about Debz dumplings, what do you think Grim will say when he reads this.
If you had bothered to get your ar$e to the Coach and Horses the other night you’d have known my problem with Debz dumplins;):P:D
If Chunks aint careful he will get some Aunt Bessies dumplings shoved where the sun dont shine :w00t:
Wouldn’t that be a party trick to behold?:w00t::P:D