Post by chrisg on Jun 16, 2015 19:28:00 GMT 10
The wife wanted this, but of course ends up me being the one to christen it, which being it is silly cold in WA at the moment was not really a chore 
Very different to what I'm used to in slow cookers, metal cooking chamber for a start but you'd hardly get the sear function otherwise.
I decided to just do a curry, sort of a Chicken Madras, which would give the opportunity to use the sear.
Yeah... WoW!! Thing certainly gets hot, tossed in a kilo of chicken pieces and ducked for cover until the sizzle stopped, then mopped up and tossed the pieces around until well browned whilst my sauce was bubbling on the stove before being poured over and consult the control panel to switch to slow cook mode.
On the slow cooker forum on Facebook that my wife sort of lurks on and that is a source of rather frequent hilarity - some people should just not be allowed in a kitchen - this cooker gets a lot of good press but it is often noted it cooks faster than people are used to. The fact that it defaults to the high setting probably accounts for some of that, but from this cook not all. I started it off on high and it was decidedly bubbling so after an hour or so I moved it down to low whereupon even after the temp descended it was still pretty much simmering but I did not have it terribly full either.
The smell of a delicious curry is currently filling the house and I just tossed in some green beans and gave it a stir.
It is going to be a heretical/fusion night, wife wants pasta with it, we've had a lot of rice past few days, but actually I do not mind, pasta will go good with this sauce and whilst it is not something you would see in the average Indian restaurant you will in India
Overall so far I'm trying to figure out what market Sunbeam are aiming this at.
The somewhat faster cook does not bother me, I work from home, but it is not a cooker for someone who wants to prep, go work come home and eat, unless the programing to drop it to keep warm allows for that but if so they have marketed it and done the instruction book really, really badly.
I am somewhat bemused by the keep warm setting, they actually say it is not for cooking, might have to play with that
No complaints as yet but this was just a water wings run
Cheers
Very different to what I'm used to in slow cookers, metal cooking chamber for a start but you'd hardly get the sear function otherwise.
I decided to just do a curry, sort of a Chicken Madras, which would give the opportunity to use the sear.
Yeah... WoW!! Thing certainly gets hot, tossed in a kilo of chicken pieces and ducked for cover until the sizzle stopped, then mopped up and tossed the pieces around until well browned whilst my sauce was bubbling on the stove before being poured over and consult the control panel to switch to slow cook mode.
On the slow cooker forum on Facebook that my wife sort of lurks on and that is a source of rather frequent hilarity - some people should just not be allowed in a kitchen - this cooker gets a lot of good press but it is often noted it cooks faster than people are used to. The fact that it defaults to the high setting probably accounts for some of that, but from this cook not all. I started it off on high and it was decidedly bubbling so after an hour or so I moved it down to low whereupon even after the temp descended it was still pretty much simmering but I did not have it terribly full either.
The smell of a delicious curry is currently filling the house and I just tossed in some green beans and gave it a stir.
It is going to be a heretical/fusion night, wife wants pasta with it, we've had a lot of rice past few days, but actually I do not mind, pasta will go good with this sauce and whilst it is not something you would see in the average Indian restaurant you will in India
Overall so far I'm trying to figure out what market Sunbeam are aiming this at.
The somewhat faster cook does not bother me, I work from home, but it is not a cooker for someone who wants to prep, go work come home and eat, unless the programing to drop it to keep warm allows for that but if so they have marketed it and done the instruction book really, really badly.
I am somewhat bemused by the keep warm setting, they actually say it is not for cooking, might have to play with that
No complaints as yet but this was just a water wings run
Cheers
