Crockpot Electric Slow Cooker | Programmable Digital Display | Large 7.5L Capacity (up to 10 People) | Keep Warm Function & 20-Hour Countdown Timer | Stainless Steel [CSC063]

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Sear/Sauté: Use the unit as a stovetop for browning meats, sautéing veggies, simmering sauces, and more. Steam Air Fry crispy vegetables and fresh or frozen foods like salmon fillets with steam-infused air without drying them out. For this test, I opened the main lid, filled the pot with some cool water and attached the pressure lid. Select your heat and timer settings and once the time is up it will switch over to the 'auto keep warm' setting. They are prove and five steam variants of the other settings, including steam meal; steam air fryer; steam bake; steam bread; and steam roast.

A pressure cooker is a game changer in the kitchen, and a slow cooker that doubles as a pressure cooker as well is the ultimate package for efficient and delicious cooking. If you find the food needs longer, you just follow the process to start cooking by selecting the function, temperature and time again.

Our slow cookers will make versatile and practical additions to your small kitchen appliance collection. Pasta bakes – I cook the pasta on the hob, but make my sauce on the sauté setting then add pasta and cheese for an easy meal. Whether it’s a new recipe or your grandma’s classic slow-cooked beef stew, you can cook a surprisingly wide range of dishes in a slow cooker. I was slightly terrified of using a pressure cooker, having heard horror stories of them from the 50s and 60s.

I have used this a couple of times and recommend setting the timer for slightly less time than the instructions recommend if you like a bit of crunch to your veg. It is a bulky bit of tech that will take up a lot of room in your kitchen and the cooking pot isn’t easy to lift out, but its 7. Currys Group Limited and Currys Retail Limited are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. If you enjoy lots of stews or roasted meats it is sure to get plenty of use, but for those who are less keen on cooking, it also cooks frozen foods. For slow cooking you really need to do everything on 'high', as low is not hot enough to get large volumes of food simmering away.

Keep Warm mode is not intended to warm food from a cold state but to keep it warm at a food‐safe temperature after cooking is complete.

Try Moroccan lamb steaks with Tenderstem broccoli and fluffy couscous, or perfectly cooked chicken cordon bleu with smoked ham and cheese, tender green beans and buttery mashed potato. However, thanks to the handy, automatic ‘keep warm’ function, it will still keep your food toasty until you’re ready to serve. The better slow cookers tend to have heating elements that are installed around the sides as well as in the base of the outer housing.In fact, they're real multi-taskers, even up to the challenge of cooking a whole cut of meat – including sweet and salty coca cola ham or a tender beef joint. Read more about the condition For parts or not working: An item that does not function as intended or is not fully operational.

As intended, the pressure cooker cuts cooking time by up to 70 percent, and the pasta I cooked in it for mac and cheese took no cooking time, just the time it took for the machine to reach pressure. You can use the grill rack for cooking things like steak closer to the heat source or just brown the top of whatever you have in the cooking pot. I think people sometimes don't like them if they are trying to cook things that benefit from faster cooking.Finally, very few have the grill, roast and air crisp options built-in, meaning they can cook by methods of conduction and convection, but not radiation. Both Currys Group Limited and Creation Consumer Finance Ltd are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. This function can be found on the majority of slow cookers, helping to retain the temperature of your food without cooking it further – handy when you’re struggling to round up the family! Programmable slow cookers are ideal if you’re leaving the house for long periods, since the digital timer lets you choose the cooking time and the digital display shows the remaining time. The exterior should be wiped as soon as any spillages occur, then a once over with a damp cloth every week is sufficient.