Nothing has had the ‘glow up’ quite like pulled pork has in recent years!Everything is so much trendier with pulled pork these days 😉 Subways, and burgers are filled with them, pub schnitzels are topped with them, I’ve even had eggs benny served on pulled pork!Everywhere you look it’s ‘slow cooked pulled pork’ on the […]
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Where do I begin? It’s a question I’m asked a lot!You’ve bought a shiny new slow cooker, or perhaps you bought one a long time ago, but you’ve still never used it.You want to get into this slow cooking you see so many others raving about, but you just aren’t sure where to start? We
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Slow cooking can produce dishes with more liquid due to the condensation formed on the lid and the fact the lid stays closed so that it doesn’t reduce like some stove top/oven methods would do. Here’s a collection of tips and trick you can use to ensure a thickened consistency to your final dish…. #1Â Â Â Â
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In short… No!! This is a very hotly debated topic that we see in our group Slow Cooker Recipes 4 Families on Facebook nearly every single day. Some people choose to take this risk. In fact many people will tell you that they have done so for years and “it’s never hurt me!’. However according
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There are several methods you can use to remove oil your dish. First and foremost you can reduce the amount of fat going into the dish from the beginning. Choose lean cuts of meat, trim visible fat from meat and add little to no oil to your slow cooker recipes. Some also like to pre-brown
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What is the tea towel/dishcloth trick I hear everyone talking about? You will often see in recipes that people will state to lay a tea towel (the cloth you dry your dishes with) between the inner slow cooker bowl top and the lid of the slow cooker (see photo below). This is to absorb condensation and
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Cooking cakes in slow cookers is out of the norm for a lot of traditionalist slow cooker users, so we wanted to include some advice on what can and can’t be used in cake making in your slow cooker, and also to provide some general tips for getting the most out of your slow cooker cake
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It happens to all of us sometimes! We finish cooking our recipe only to find a baked on ring of cooked/burnt residue inside our slow cooker or on the base. Or maybe the inner casing of your slow cooker has stains in it? Don’t despair – we’ve got the solution! Basics: – The
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Slow cooking is a real saver for many families! Save time, save money, save our sanity on busy evenings 😉 But what about if you work all day? Leave the house in the morning and not come home until almost dinner time. You keep hearing that slow cooking would be ideal for you and
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 DON’T USE A DELAY TIMER WITH YOUR SLOW COOKER A lot of people think it’s a good way to get longer cooking times from their slow cooker by using a delay timer in the power point to make the slow cooker come on at a later time than when they leave the house. Several electricians
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