defjam
1:19 Thu Feb 12
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Cheap meat?
FMOB!
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ted fenton
12:49 Thu Feb 12
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I cook a lot of meals in a stock pot on simmer various cuts of cheap meat just melt in the mouth.
Bolocknese 4 hours is excellent.
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Grumpster
12:47 Thu Feb 12
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I'm no fan of food, but fuck me does chicken come out of these fuckers delightfully tender and just falling apart at the touch.
Our slow cooker got me a little addicted to casseroles, coq au vin and the likes for a while.
Well only addicted as I wasn't fucking about with them for hours as the missus does it.
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Nurse Ratched
12:47 Thu Feb 12
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I am sure they are very good.
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Fivetide
12:44 Thu Feb 12
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They aren't the best method of cooking or anything by any means. But if your whole household is out working/busy all day and still expects to be able to eat healthily in a tiny window of opportunity in the evening before everyone buggers off again, they can be very useful indeed.
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Nurse Ratched
12:42 Thu Feb 12
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Never used one, Cpugh.
And certainly not for Rendang! It needs uncovered cooking for the best part of a day, sometimes. It's supposed to be a dry curry. Totally worth it, though.
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Fivetide
12:37 Thu Feb 12
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Chilli is good. The long cooking time is great for heat and flavour, and if you put one on in the morning all you have to do is remember to buy some tortillas and pots of coloured goo on your way home. If you're being all healthy, the long cooking time/flavour does wonders for soya/Quorn mince too. Handy thing to have if you've got friends coming over after work ahead of a gig or something and just want to arrive home and get some good food in you, rather than spend the first couple hours of the evening eating out.
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TWe
12:15 Thu Feb 12
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Nurse Ratched 12:03 Thu Feb 12
Take it out and reduce it down in a pan although I didn't bother and it still tasted great.
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Monk~koknee
12:08 Thu Feb 12
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Nurse R = Gordon Ramsay
Reduce the heat and simmer, uncovered, for 2-2½ hours, stirring occasionally, or until the meat starts to break up and most of the liquid has evaporated. Discard the cinnamon sticks before serving.
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Joke Whole
12:08 Thu Feb 12
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I think they're brilliant - I buy one at every place I've ever lived and inevitably some local bags it when I leave.
The concept tends to lose something in translation though - mate of mine has a bar in Bangkok and just before I left we were discussing the merits of them, so he bought one for his Thai wife to help reduce the demands in the bar kitchen.
"Load it up, plug it in and leave of eight hours," evidently means "Take the lid off and check it every 5 minutes" in Thai, so he had to ban her from using it...and that never worked, as soon as his back was turned she was in there rummaging around moaning about how long the thing took.
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Far Cough
12:06 Thu Feb 12
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Nursey, What's the best crock pot to buy?
I fancy a home cooked stew
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Nurse Ratched
12:03 Thu Feb 12
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How can the rendang reduce sufficient liquid in a sealed pot?
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TWe
11:51 Thu Feb 12
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Use mine all the time. Cooked a beef rendang the the other week which was the nuts. Normally put it on in the morning then go to football or the pub then come home and get stuck in.
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Coffee
11:40 Thu Feb 12
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Pedantry will get you everywhere.
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gph
11:38 Thu Feb 12
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A slow cooker cooks slowly (the clue is in the name), a pressure cooker cooks quickly (a harder clue this time).
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Coffee
11:34 Thu Feb 12
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Can someone explain what a slow cooker can do that a pressure cooker can't?
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jammydee
11:33 Thu Feb 12
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I made this a few weeks ago.. Was bloody handsome.
http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/chinese-pork-tenderloin-noodles
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Nurse Ratched
11:32 Thu Feb 12
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Not too late to rescue this. Say the slow cooker was an impulse buy for the kitchen and buy her a good pair of earrings for Valentine's. Smart box for the earrings.
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Crassus
11:29 Thu Feb 12
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Steady
Outstanding work
Strongly recommend a beef and ale pie, food of the Gods
Cubed beef, veg and herbs with a couple of tins of Guiness or proper ale, topped off with stock of choice
Brew for hours, come back, strain off the solids, fire the liquid into a pan and reduce / thicken, add to solids in a dish, cover with shop bought puff pastry and 20 minutes alter you have a feast of joy
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gph
11:28 Thu Feb 12
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When did he get the knee pads for scrubbing the kitchen floor?
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Coffee
11:26 Thu Feb 12
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Nurse Ratched 11:23 Thu Feb 12
That was the year before. Last year was a shining new kettle.
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