Fighting For Slow Cooker: The Samurai Way

The Test Kitchen's Guide to Buying a Slow Cooker Today's slow cookers come in a vast variety of sizes with a great deal of different features. Which ones are worth the investment? A slow cooker promises to be a little dream grandma who sits in the kitchen all day Cooking for you, but use the wrong cooker and that fantasy could fizzle. A cooker might Run hotter than expected, drying the food out or turning it mushy, or slower than you Want, so dinner is not ready when you're. Then there can be problems with hot spots, That make food cook unevenly. And what if operating your system is so perplexing That you have to pore over the manual each time you use it? For the Perfect machine that would deliver a properly cooked meal and be absolutely Lids were a must, as they permit you to see progress without losing heat. So were ovalshaped Crocks, as these can accommodate large roasts and provide more versatility than round crocks. With these criteria in Mind, we piled up eight mod...