I’ve been using slow cookers for ages. Decades. I have put a great deal of effort into getting the temperature in them up to boiling point, so the contents were simmering nicely. Because I thought I needed to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More recently though, I have been cooking things sous vide, where the meat (or whatever else it might be) is held at the temperature for “doneness” for a couple of hours or so, and then flash fried on the outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today, I am slow cooking beef brisket. I browned the outside of the joint in a frying pan before putting it in the slow cooker, as you do. While I was waiting for the liquid to boil, I realised that I do not have to!<\/strong> It only needs to get to the “done” temperature… As long as the other ingredients are cooked (and after nine hours I think they will be) all will be well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I expect that if I tell people this, they will shake their heads, and say “Surely everyone knows that?” I looked for introductory slow cooking articles online, to see if I could confirm this insight, only to find an article that insisted the slow cooker should get to 150\u00b0C for brisket. It must have been written by a machine, using source text about cooking in a smoker, I assume. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been using slow cookers for ages. Decades. I have put a great deal of effort into getting the temperature in them up to boiling point, so the contents were simmering nicely. Because I thought I needed to. More recently though, I have been cooking things sous vide, where the meat (or whatever else it … Continue reading “A Slow Cooker insight!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-cooking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}