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Dean Edwards

Here are my slow cooker tips Part 2 Do you love your slow cooker? Well here’s part 2 on the correct way to use it to its full potential? I’m gonna show you loads of banging recipes and tips and tricks to help you on your way. Here are my top five slow cooker tips to make cooking banging recipes a breeze. 1: As a general rule of thumb it takes half a time to cook a recipe on the high setting as it does the low setting. So if a recipe states to cook for 6 hours or low, you can cook it on the high setting for three. 2: slow cooker is a great way to use the so-called inexpensive cuts of meat, something like beef shin, lamb shank, oxtail and Pork shoulder which are unbelievably delicious but require a little bit more love are perfect for the slow cooker. Just put the lid on and let that gentle heat create the magic. 3: Always add dairy at the end, ingredients like, cream and milk, added at the start of the cooking process can curdle, so always add just before serving, there will be enough residual heat within the pot to heat this through. 4: To brown or not to brown? This is a question. I get asked all of the time, as you can see from my recipes, I quite often don’t bother. Yes, browning your meat and cooking your onions beforehand can add an extra dimension of flavour to your cook however for me the ease of just dumping everything into the slow cooker pot out ways that process. Trust me, I’ve done loads of testing over the years on these recipes and it doesn’t make that much of a difference in my opinion. 5: Prepare ahead of time. The reason most of us use a slow cooker is for convenience, so why not? Prepare your slow cooker meal the night before? Ingredients can be popped into a container or bag ready to dump into the slow cooker pot the following morning before sticking on to cook throughout the day. #Slowcooker #slowcookerrecipes #crockpot #crockpotmeals #slowcookerseason

On the profile · Sep 22, 2026