Confession Time......

[EcclesCake]

Despite having owned one (I eventually gave it away) I have never cooked using a slow cooker and find some of the recommendations on here for wonderful recipes quite baffling......no offence intended to slow cooker fans!

What have you never done, guilty secret or secret weapon in the kitchen?

[EDDIE51]

Bread maker , hopeless, takes hours to make one half size loaf, and the ingredients cost more than buying 2 full size loaves in a shop.

[EcclesCake]

I do have a bread maker but don't often use it as I eat very little bread and when I do I appreciate the therapy of kneading the dough.

I don't find it takes any longer in the bread maker than it does through the mandraulic method but it is tedious having an odd shaped loaf with a tear in the base where the paddle goes.

[Dee Sa]

I have had the same slow cooker for over 30 years, just bung everything in and leave it to do the rest, dont bother to follow a recipe just put in all things you like and plenty of root veg, oxos/chicken stock cubes etc in with the meat, oxtail tastes really good on a cold winters day.

[friedgreentomato]

with the bread machine I use it at the weekends - set it on timer so that when we get up on saturday and sunday we have fresh baked bread.

if I am doing bread for dinner parties or other occassions I always make it by hand.

[RATTER15]

Carakeel carves with an electric knife, despite having a large range of very expensive razor sharp knives, we also have an electric meat/bread slicing
mahine, I use the slow cooker for making yoghurt and we also have a tiny electric wisk that fits in a cup for making hot chocolate and a separate frying pan for every possible type of frying, a whole selection hanging on the wall. Her grandchildren call her "gadget gran"