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Below you'll find the best slow cookers according to our experts, as well as everything you need to know before shopping – from must-have features to their energy efficiency. How we test slow cookers The Prestige – Digital Slow Cooker is a standard grey slow cooker with a tempered and tough see-through glass lid. Peek at how your meal is coming along without having to open the lid to see inside the cooking bowl. The oval shape of this slow cooker lets you put long cuts of meat in (perhaps ribs) as well as whole poultry.
All slow cookers have a capacity associated with them, either in litres or quarts. But this is confusing. Some online reviewers of these products complain that the capacity given in the sales blurbs is overstated and that the slow cooker effectively holds less volume.
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When testing these slow cookers we were keen to try out each of their main cooking settings, so while a more simple manual slow cooker was used to make a stew or simple curry, we pressure cooked meat and steamed fish in the more complex slow cookers on the market. When slow cookers came with digital settings we attempted delay-start recipes and tested how easy they were to use. This is a traditional recipe that will please everyone. A vintage syrup pud made with a pressure cooker means you can have dessert any time of the week! Finished results: the tenderness of the meat and vegetables, the consistency of the cooked sauce and the heat of the food when serving No liquid escapes from a slow cooker, so when adapting a recipe not specifically written for a slow cooker, reduce any added liquid by a third. An increasingly popular way of cooking, sous-vide is a French term that simply means ‘under vacuum’. You place your food inside a sealed pouch and then pop it into a temperature-controlled water bath to cook.
Recreate a brilliant takeaway meal made with fresh ingredients by trying this pressure cooker Massaman Beef Curry. This nutritious dish takes just half an hour to put together and yields eight portions of meltingly tender beef.
These time-savers are ideal for creating batches of dishes which can be eaten by the family throughout the week. With food already in, you won’t be tempted to call for a takeaway! You can place the cooking pot in the dishwasher or wash by hand fairly easily. The Ninja Foodi Multi-Cooker also has a basket insert and can be used to air fry other treats when not in use as a slow cooker. Is this the future of slow cooking? We think so. Most slow cookers will have similar standard controls – high heat for meals cooked in less than a few hours, low heat for all-day cooking. A 'keep warm' mode should hold food at a serveable temperature without actually cooking it. Some cookers will switch to 'keep warm' automatically after an elapsed cooking time, while more basic models need this altered manually. Our sumptuous, syrupy lemon pudding uses mostly everyday essentials and only takes 45 minutes to cook, rather than the usual two hours of steaming normally required. The single control dial on the front of the unit has an Off position as well as a choice of high, low and warm settings. There is no timer so cooking starts when you turn the dial to the appropriate setting and finishes when you then turn it to the Off position.
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