Crock-Pot Crock Pot 4.7, Black: 4.7l Gloss Black Digital Countdown Slow Cooker

Estoy encantada con ella 😍! Para cocidos, guisos, cremas,...se notan los sabores, todo está mil veces mejor al cocinarse lentamente, una maravilla. Hoy en día además puedes encontrar mil recetas gratuitas para sacarle el mayor provecho :) Me queda probarla para postres, ...creo que lo próximo será un buen arroz con leche 👌🤪

I looked at loads of reviews before choosing a slow cooker.Although I live on my own, I did want a cooker that would accommodate a reasonable sized joint of meat, and I knew I could freeze any surplus food. I chose one with a countdown timer as I'm not always sure when I'll be back home. The cooker seems well built - with a big heavy ceramic inner pot. On first use there was a slightly disconcerting smell of warm electrics coming from the control panel - it has settled but I can still smell warm electrics if I put my nose close to it - guess that's inevitable. The pot does get hot on the outside - so make sure nothing meltable is touching it. The pot is large - my second meal was a 3.5kg piece of pork - but I have found that as long as it is at least half full of cooking juice- it seems to work fine. The timer is easy to use - you can switch from high to low whenever you want - but it would have been nice to be able to have say - one hour on high and then the rest on low...maybe I'm asking too much. It cooks beautifully - and I am very pleased with the meals I have made. The pork was super succulent after 7-8hrs, I've made ribs & beans and that was a great success too. It converted a little tray of lamb bones into a magnificent tagine. One curious fact about slow cooking - with the pork - there was virtually no fat in the juices - it remained on the pork and was tasteless! It seems to have extracted all the yummy fat flavour but left the fat in situ. The lamb dish did shed much fat, but that was easily skimmed off leaving a delicious sauce. You may find it best to decant the cooking juices and reduce them on a normal stove to concentrate the flavours. I've yet to use it while I'm out as I can never get up early enough to do the prep!!! All in all it seems to be a great buy - either for a family, or a lone greedy guts like me! I look forward to weekends even more now - as I plan what other hapless bit of meat will be the next offering to my crock-pot!

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Da dilettante della cucina, a cui però piace imparare, farò alcune considerazioni che spero siano utili a chi si trova nella mia stessa situazione e vuole dilettarsi con una slow cooker. - Cucinare con una slow cooker è facile ma non facilissimo. Molte ricette sottolineano molto la facilità ed è giusto così, ma senza alcuni accorgimenti di esperienza il risultato vi potrebbe deludere. Mettete in conto di buttare qualche piatto all'inizio. Per cucinare la carne comprate comunque un termometro da cucina e usatelo al posto del timer per avere una cottura ideale. - Se volete comprare una slow cooker, valutate attentamente la dimensione, nel senso non comprate una più grande di quella che vi serve. Considerate che non la riempirete per metà (meglio due terzi) la cottura ne risente parecchio e se siete in 2/3 persone riempire una 4,7 lt è impegnativo. Ciò premesso, non posso che essere soddisfatto di questo acquisto. Adesso riesco a cucinare un ottimo ragù di carne e una gustosa arista piuttosto che dei fagioli all'uccelletto, cose che prima non mi azzardavo a fare. Il prodotto è di ottima fattura e apprezzo il timer digitale. Tornassi indietro prenderei la più piccola essendo noi solo in due e non escludo di farlo in futuro regalando questa ai genitori che sono più avvezzi a organizzare pranzi e cene. Una pecca, non c'è manuale in italiano ma per me non è un grosso problema (e delle ricette che sono sul manuale francamente se ne può fare a meno).

Absolutely fantastic slow cooker and well worth the money. I had picked this one out a long time ago but hesitated and it sold out. I signed up to the John Lewis email alert but never received anything and by chance happened to search for it again one day and found it on here for half the price it is being sold for at JL! I had read other reviews that it burnt food so on its first use we made a stew and set it on low for the day. We were disappointed with the result and it was still very watery and tough. Now we set it on high for 4 - 5 hours and it is perfect. Stew, loin, ribs and curry have all come out great and it takes so little effort. It is helpful if you can stir it every so often as bits around the outside may burn, but it's nothing to worry about if not. You can also adjust the temperature from low to high or high to low at any time while it's cooking if you change your mind, and you can adjust the timing too without any phaffing around stopping and restarting it which was a great bonus. The keep warm function is great too but maybe a quiet beep would be handy to let you know when it's done. Overall I'm very happy with it and have already recommended it to anyone who will listen!