I do have a slow cooker... I will keep that in mind.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 14:40, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Slow cookers are excellent.
Beef in beer in particular is very nice done in one.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 10 Nov 2010, 14:43, Reply)

Venison in red wine is awesome as well.
just fry venison in onions and some flour, pour in red wine put in slow cooker.
Put herbs in if you want.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 14:46, Reply)

I'd like to throw out the opinion that slow cookers are for gays

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 14:47, Reply)

I'm sure some gay people own them.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 14:48, Reply)

my aunt bought me one
it's still a virgin.

there is nothing vegetarian that i could conceive of cooking in it, and i am gone for more than 15 hours usually, not 6. meh.

thank you for your coriolis effect thing yesterday btw, got stuck on a massive long telecon.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 14:50, Reply)

I just don't see the point in them
my oven does some pretty low temperatures and has a timer that can start and stop cooking. Why do I need another gadget to take up more room in my kitchen?

you are welcome. It's one of the few times that I might know more about something than someone else on here.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 14:52, Reply)

Ovens use a fuckload more electricity/gas, I think.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 14:53, Reply)

I bet you'd have to use a slow cooker loads of times before you covered the cost with the savings in gas/electricity

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 14:57, Reply)

Mine cost £20
Plus, your food won't dry out in a slow cooker, it can in an oven.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 14:59, Reply)

that is quite cheap
just need an appropriate pot though, and the right temperature.

I have an irrational dislike because one of my mates banged on about his for fucking ages and was telling me I should get one. When I hardly ever cook that sort of thing, and I really don't want another great lump of gadgetry in my kitchen.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:02, Reply)

One of my mates did that about his smoothie maker
We told him to cock off.

Somewhere like TJ Hughes is best to get them, same quality as everywhere else, but far cheaper.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:05, Reply)

I gues it's the same with breadmakers and soupmakers and the like.
You dont actually need them, but they do perhaps encourage you to make those things, and give those, like me, with under developed culinary skills the confidence to do so.
(Cave Duck, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:12, Reply)

breadmakers are a bit different I think
because it removes a lot of the effort and skill required. Mind you, I only use mine for making pizza dough these days.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:15, Reply)

I may have mentioned this before.
but a friend of a friend used to make great pizza dough. He was a pastry chef by trade, but it always amused me that he had actually initially trained to be a stonemason.
He emigrated to Australia and apparently qualified to settle there under either job.
(Cave Duck, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:25, Reply)

doesn't ring a bell
pastry chef looks like a hard job. too much of a science rather than an art.

most things I approach scientifically, but not music or cooking
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:27, Reply)

Fuck that, I got a knife sharpener, one of those ones that you slide the knife up and down some plastic that has two wheels of stone in.
FUCKING AMAZING
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:31, Reply)

I need one of those
my Global knives, while insanely sharp, are not insanely sharp enough!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:35, Reply)

then you need one of these:
www.salamandercookshop.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2824

Wusthof are the dogs bollocks of the kitchen knives, think I'm up to 7 pieces at the moment, never looked at another make since.
(Kip, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:15, Reply)

I have a steel which works nicely
as global knives sharpen like a motherfucker, but one of my knives has a bit of a notch so need something more than a steel to set to it without fucking it.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:24, Reply)

then
this: www.richmondcookshop.co.uk/index.php?cPath=375_340 could be the place.

I could spend £1000's in this shop, (If I had it)
(Kip, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:29, Reply)

Some ovens may do this
ours doesn't, hence the slow cooker is a welcome addition to the kitchen rather than forking out hundreds of extra pounds for a new oven.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:15, Reply)

I broke my old hob a while back
so I had to buy a whole new cooker thing.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:36, Reply)

I remember that.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:02, Reply)

Roasted veg in a tomato & herb sauce
You could make one hell of a strong tomato sauce.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 14:53, Reply)

OR
i could just stop at the 24 hour marks and sparks or tesco on high street kensington and buy them as i get in.....
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 14:56, Reply)

By that standard, whats the point of cooking a roast when you can get one to put in the microwave for 5 minutes?
Because it's better!
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 14:58, Reply)

It really just offers the opportunity of having it ready and warm for when you come in.
Which is quite nice if you've been working late on a cold evening. Though of course it requires you to have done the prep in the morning/night before.

Ours only gets used in winter.
(Cave Duck, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:02, Reply)

I've already got my next recipe lined up
Spicy Squid Stew, should be good. Basically, you make the entire stew without the squid, then take the food off the heat, put the squid in, and serve immediately.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:06, Reply)

Where's my invite?
I'll bring the sea urchin roe for a starter.
(Kip, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:13, Reply)

If only you had a stunningly attractive man in your life who knows how to cook, then life would be content.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:32, Reply)

and don't i know it
i've even tried settling for "not remotely attractive and can't really cook" but that didn't work either!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:40, Reply)

*high fives*

( girlinthehole, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:41, Reply)

clearly settling for that hasn't worked
you need to maintain standards.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:50, Reply)

if i have learned nothing from my dating history
it is that i have no standards!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:56, Reply)

enforce some on yourself
then you could end up with someone as awesome as me or gonz.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 15:59, Reply)

i would love to be at gonz's wedding if he wrote the vows himself
how cool would they be?!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 16:11, Reply)