Can you get good food out of a crockpot / slowcooker?

[GePap]

Originally posted by Japher
IMO, cooking does require attention to details. However, for some cooking/recipes certain details are more important and the lesser details can even be ignored when using certain techniques.

The crockpot's only seeming plus, from what everyone who likes it is saying here, lays in the issue of heat management, in that the crockpot makes managing the right amount of heat very easy.

Now for certain things if you don't get the heat right, nothing else matters (and the food is ruined), but if you can get the heat right, using other methods of cooking then allow you to do more than you can with a crockpot.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Asher
Thirteen to one now...

Its funny that someone who doesn't seem to understand the basic difference between opinions and facts talks about "reality."

[Asher]

Originally posted by GePap




Its funny that someone who doesn't seem to understand the basic difference between opinions and facts talks about "reality."

I'm sorry, did you cite a fact that showed slowcookers cannot cook good food? I must have missed that.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Asher


I'm sorry, did you cite a fact that showed slowcookers cannot cook good food? I must have missed that.

No dumbass, that most people here are of the opinion that you can get "good" food from a slowcooker doesn't mean **** to me, and I have yet to seen an arguement made that changes my opinion about the subject, though Japher and others have made valid points and I am willing to engage them on them.

[rah]

God, I hate to agree with Asher but I do on this one. (and it seems many others do also despite your claims)

Most of the people here like the lock load and fire attitude of cooking that a crock pot gives. I've cooked some excellent pot roasts and chili so any arguements about quality of food are automatically lost. Just because I use one on certain meals does not make me a bad cook, in fact I think it helps me be a good cook because I understand the strengths and weaknesses of different types of cooking and take advantage of the strengths. And if I did want to fiddle with it, I can. Actually more easily than if it was covered in the oven.
I just usually choose not to since for the things that I use if for, it won't make much difference.

SO I guess you're not only an elitest but a stubborn one also.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by rah

I don't put pots in the oven. Pans yes, but not pots.

Not even a baked casserole or something? Pot roast can be very good as it turns out just like a crock pot but since I have a crock pot it is easier to just use that.

[Aeson]

How about out of one of these?

[rah]

Bingo. IT"S EASIER.

I do use the oven for some casseroles but I have pyrex type casserole pots for that. I don't usually call them pots.

[GePap]

I have had great tasting food at McDonalds on occasion. That doesn't mean that I think McDonalds in general makes good food.

And what makes someone elitist about rejecting crockpots? its not like the poor people of the world all cooked with crockpots - like microwaves or rice cookers, they are a convinience. That is what they are, convinient.

If you can figure out how to get the heat right on any recipe, you will never need one, unlike things like regular post and pans, which have no real possible replacements.

[rah]

Do you even go back and read what you post?

If you did, you would instantly recognize why people think you're an elitist.

If you cook on a gas stove, it's impossible to get the simmer low enough, even with a plate top.

[chequita guevara]

If crock pots don't turn out good food, blame the chef, not the crock pot.

If you know what you are doing, cocking with crock pots is not just easy, but delicious.

As rah points out, heat management with stoves and ovens is rather tricky, especially as most ovens will not go below 250, and many won't go below 300.

[GePap]

Originally posted by rah
Do you even go back and read what you post?

If you did, you would instantly recognize why people think you're an elitist.

If you cook on a gas stove, it's impossible to get the simmer low enough, even with a plate top.

First, I am an elitist, proud of it.

Second, not all dishes would be done on a range - that is what the oven is there for. A potroast would go into a pot, in the stove.

[SlowwHand]

The problem is tha he isn't using a crockpot. A corckpot is infamously hard to use. Made in Russian.

[Japher]

I personally feel that if you aren't cooking everything over or around an open flame fired by natural fallen alder wood (walnut if you are a spend thrift) then really you are cheating and not a true chef or epicurean.

I don't think it's snobbish to think a crockpot is not a "real" cooking medium. It's in the same realm as a microwave or george foreman's grill, or those other appliance sold by that guy who sells puddy. But to argue about the luxury/convenience/skill that goes into a heating something via different convection methods is silly.

[Saras]

I once slow-roasted a hind leg of a roe deer for 8 hours at around 100 - 110 C, with some cherries and bits of bacon inserted. Heavenly.