Hands
down the most utilized small appliance in my kitchen is my slow cooker. I can do a ton of stuff with this bad boy and
it frees me up so that I can do other things while still accomplishing a lot in
my kitchen. To me it is the ultimate multi
tasker!
If you
have a slow cooker I want you to pull it out of the cupboard, dust it off and
put it to work. If you don’t, please do
not run out and buy one. Instead I want
you to put out the word to your friends, family and co-workers that you would
like a slow cooker and would be happy to take one off their hands. I’m fairly certain that inside your circle
there is someone with a slow cooker they are not using that they would happily gift
to you. If not, join your Facebook Buy
Nothing Group and put out the word there.
Someone somewhere has an extra slow cooker they aren’t using.
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| Preparing a big pot of soup |
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| Making applesauce |
I use
my slow cooker year round and all the time.
In the summer I can cook or bake without heating up my kitchen and I can
do smaller batches without having to use the oven. It is perfect for making soups, stews, chili,
bone broth, pasta sauce, applesauce, apple or pear butter, you name it. I also bake in mine. It is perfect for baking a large batch of
potatoes. I even bake my meatloaf in my slow
cooker. The possibilities are pretty much
endless.
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| Meat loaf ready to bake |
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Large
batch cooking and meal prepping is one of my favorite ways to utilize this
appliance allowing me to work on other things at the stove. I will often start a batch of pasta sauce
early in the morning and while I’m doing the other things I have planned it is
ready to be divided up into freezer containers by the time I am finished with everything
else.
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| Making tomato sauce for canning |
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| Beef broth ready to be strained |
I will
also fill it up with chicken, beef or ham bones and vegetable scraps, top it up
with water and let it go an entire day making the most delicious broth which is
basically a FREE food. It is also a very
important ingredient for me to use in recipes, when I make soup and even cooking
rice. My slow cooker definitely earns
its keep around my kitchen and I can’t imagine not having one. We even take it on vacation with us, no joke. Let’s get slow cooking!
Between my slow cooker, air fryer and induction burner, I could cook just about anything we wanted to eat. I kind of hate that my slow cooker stays on the counter nearly all the time, but I use it too often to put it away.
ReplyDeleteI hardly use my stove anymore. I use my electric appliances a lot too.
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