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Pressure cooker or Slow Cooker?
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What are the pros and cons and what is better for transforming tougher cuts as goat and mutton into juicy moist meats?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Can't speak for pressure cookers as I don't own one. They frighten me slightly! But I love my slow cooker. It's on as we speak with yesterdays leftover over roast lamb and a few scraggy bits of veg. It's perfect if you're ultra thrifty with food like me, makes everything delicious that comes out of it, no matter what you bung in it!
Slow Cookers -as B00 said you just bung things in and you literally just leave it to cook itself.Mine too is on -threw some veg and split peas in first thing on low and the soup will be lovely come tea time.
Makes the cheapest cuts tender.
I too was scared of the pressure cooker so didnt use the one I bought.
Makes the cheapest cuts tender.
I too was scared of the pressure cooker so didnt use the one I bought.
I also love my slow cooker, and you don't exactly have to break the bank to get one, I have this one and it works just fine.
http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.100-2168.aspx
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Actually I preferred my pressure cooker, but it got old and I couldn't get a replacement part. I loved it and think the food tasted better from the pressure cooker than from the slow cooker. Also to produce a wonderful stew or casserole in record speed time was fantastic. I think come winter I will get another one.
there's nothing to be frightened of about a pressure cooker, you just have to get used to using one. i used to have an aluminium prestige one and used it all the time, it was great. after about 20 years continuous use, the handle came loose and i stopped using it. eventually i binned it and never bothered buying a new one. now there's just the two of us to cook for i don't think i'd get the use out of one the way i used to. had a slow cooker too and found it totally useless, never got on with it at all but i know there are those who swear by them. mind you, there are those who swear by george foreman grills too and they're another horrible piece of kitchen kit, cannot abide the way they cook any food especially meat.
i think both are either wonderful or a waste of money, depending on who you ask. you'd probably have to bite the bullet and buy either or both and decide for yourself.
i think both are either wonderful or a waste of money, depending on who you ask. you'd probably have to bite the bullet and buy either or both and decide for yourself.
I'd go for a slow cooker anyday. With a pressure cooker it does cook quickly but you have to be nearby not to forget it as overcooking is a problem or worse it boils dry! You also have a kitchen full of steam to contend with. Whereas a slow cooker just cooks by itself, you leave it and hours later whenever you want eveything's ready. The only thing I have burnt in the SC is rice pudding... Also washing up wise a SC is easier to clean than a PC