crockpot hacks

**wanderling** · 09-20-2018, 11:36 AM

i love to experiment with recipes and cooking, but living without some of my "brick & mortar"devices has presented a few challenges. I am learning that i can cook all sorts of things with my slow cooker, many more dishes than the usual soups and stews. And with solar and the inverter, I can leave it on all day or all night, no prob. And no extra heat pumped into the RV. Experiments do sometimes fail ( but we can usually eat the failures, too. ) Remarkably beautiful, crack-free cheesecakes, for example, come out amazing when prepared in a crockpot.
TIP: place a clean folded towel or paper towels between lid and pot rim before closing to prevent condensation from dripping onto food.

**Knightclimber** · 09-21-2018, 07:58 AM

If you love your crockpot you have to try a pressure cooker. I cook everything I can in it. My son (17) loves to use it to make custard and tapioca pudding for snacks. Hard boiled eggs fall out of their shells, literally.

**Sandi** · 09-22-2018, 06:31 AM

Originally Posted by Knightclimber

If you love your crockpot you have to try a pressure cooker. I cook everything I can in it. My son (17) loves to use it to make custard and tapioca pudding for snacks. Hard boiled eggs fall out of their shells, literally.

I’m with you!! I don’t even own a crock pot any more! Got rid of it after I got my Instant Pot a year ago. When you can cook a turkey breast in 35 minutes or a roast in about the same time, I’m all over it!!

**Aridon** · 09-22-2018, 09:24 PM

Yeah the instant pot is amazing. Highly recommend checking them out.

**FT4NOW** · 09-22-2018, 09:38 PM

I've done 8lbs of pork shoulder in our instant pot, 90 - 110 minutes and it pulls apart effortlessly. It's also great for soups in the fall and winter. We just recently learned you can do popcorn in it. I don't recall the exact method, but it uses coconut oil and sounded easy.

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**WhittleBurner** · 09-23-2018, 08:25 AM

All of these quick cookers are great and make really good food quickly. What I miss though is on those cold wet miserably cold days when you are sitting inside looking out, is that dinner cooking slowly warming the place up with all those wonderful odors with the oven going all day.

**Knightclimber** · 09-24-2018, 05:56 AM

That is when you make cookies or fresh bread from scratch.

**Houndbb** · 09-29-2018, 02:47 PM

Had the best crock meal last night. Scalloped potatoes and ham slices (smoked pork chops can sub-even better). It’s getting colder here and the meal didn’t cool off too quickly and it really hit the spot! Asparagus side. Yum.

**Bamaman** · 09-29-2018, 04:17 PM

We have both the electric pressure cooker and numerous crock pots. The pressure cooker is my chicken and dumplings cooker--and soups. By the time it comes up to temperature and pressure, it's not actually that quick cooking.

We use the crock pot in the camper for baked potatoes, vegetable beef soup and pot roast. Just throw cans of Golden Mushroom and French Onion soup on top of the roast and that's it.

**orbiker** · 09-29-2018, 05:08 PM

Cooking baked potatoes in the Instant Pot is SO much better. Set for 10 minutes, the put in the oven for 10 more and out comes the best baked potato you have ever had. No need to rap the potato for the oven either. It helps crisp up the potato skin and fluff up the inside.