re: #683 SixDegrees

Slow cookers are very nice, but what you’re doing is called braising, and you can braise in a Dutch oven or other large pot. Otherwise, it’s exactly the same - tough cuts of meat cooked at low temperature partially or completely submerged in liquid for a long period of time.

There is nothing like pork shoulder braised with apples. At under two bucks a pound, you can feed a whole family three or four times for pennies per serving.

That was part of the point of going to a slow cooker- that it used less energy than an entire oven. And if you think about it, it makes sense because a slow cooker is heating only itself, while an oven is heating the dutch oven and surrounding area of the oven itself.