This is a 160W slow cooker with the capacity to feed a family of four, or two with leftovers the next day.

Complete with 3 heat settings along with a keep warm function, allowing you to serve when you are ready. It's also worth bearing in mind that the capacity stated on the sales blurb is the size of the bowl, not the working capacity, which can sometimes be half that. There are high or low slow-cooking settings, as well as steam, reheat and simmer/buffet, making it perfect for entertaining. We enjoyed beautifully tender meat, soft carrots that retained a little bite, as well as a richly flavoured sauce. litre capacity which is ideal for making a delicious dinner serving large batches of stew, casserole or soups.Design: Are you looking for a simple, budget-friendly option that just slow-cooks (but does it extremely well) or something more versatile that sous-vides, pressure cooks, bakes and roasts too?

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The base of the slow cooker has non-slip feet which holds it firmly in place when you are serving up hot food. Flavours won't become more concentrated because the liquid doesn't reduce, so try to pack in as much flavour as you can. The functions are adjustable, from high to low, and a recipe book of 41 recipes by Heston Blumenthal is included with the instruction manual.Please note: Stoneware, glass and electrical items can only be delivered to UK addresses (including UK Offshore). Please note under the Criminal Justice Act 1988, we are only allowed to sell knives to persons aged 18 and over.

Grilling, dehydrating, yogurt-making, baking/roasting and steaming are also well-performing functions. The large capacity of this model makes it a very practical option for feeding families up to six, or for filling up the freezer with leftovers. Some of the controls also confused us – the button that looks like an 'on/off' switch is actually just an 'off' switch, and we failed to find any reference to this in the manual. We put a variety of slow cookers through their paces by cooking BBC Good Food’s slow cooker beef stew recipe. Some high-tech models feature sous-vide settings and specific ingredient pre-sets to help you make the most of your meal.This pot is hob-safe (gas and electric), meaning you can sear any meat or cook ingredients on the hob before transferring it to the slow cooker. The heat distribution was gentle as hoped on the eight-hour setting, which produced a tender roast chicken that fell off the bone without being dry at all.

There are two shapes, the round and tall, which has less of a footprint, and the oval, which takes up more room but can be more versatile. litre capacity can hold up to 5 portions and with the 3 heat settings, it's ideal for cooking a variety of delicious meals for family and friends.Multi-cookers generally offer slow-cooking among their roster of cooking functions, so are also great options for getting more from your money – we've included a few among our tried and tested favourites. We made a beef stew in this cooker for four hours on high, and found the meat was tender with some light chewiness. Play about with the veg, lots of supermarkets do a 'stew' pack of veg and you can also add tinned beans or sweetcorn. The slow cookers featured in this review were tested in controlled conditions using a standardised testing criteria. We wanted to see brands pointing us in the direction of spare parts and transparency around how to recycle the product after use and where the product was made.