Thread Number: 82914
/ Tag: Recipes, Cooking Accessories
The Slow Cook feature on my New Range! |
[Down to Last] |
Post# 1071416   5/8/2020 at 18:27 (1,419 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
Checkrate/Likes
 
1    
Used it for chicken last week and beef today!
Both recipes turned out exceptionally great, though today’s was killing-filling! — Dave |
|
Post# 1071419 , Reply# 1   5/8/2020 at 18:39 (1,419 days old) by parunner58 (Davenport, FL)   |   | |
Checkrate/Likes
 
     
|
Post# 1071420 , Reply# 2   5/8/2020 at 18:46 (1,419 days old) by MattL (Flushing, MI)   |   | |
Checkrate/Likes
 
1    
My oven has that option, never used it. Slow cooker does the same with less energy I think. |
Post# 1071428 , Reply# 3   5/8/2020 at 19:12 (1,419 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
Checkrate/Likes
 
     
Believe it or not my oven’s self-cleaning system uses the old fashioned pyrolytic cleaning system—no putting a puddle of water at the floor of the oven...
I’m wondering, though, if the oven light is an LED or uses an actual bulb... (it moved from the left in my old oven (and pretty sure it was a light bulb there, I never bothered to take out or even had to change) to the right) And as for the slow cooker feature here versus a more energy-efficient pot, I like the flexibility of using whatever sized roaster, while not having to use a rather heavy baking temperature and I can get the oven to automatically turn off afterwards, too, when the cooking gets done... — Dave |
Post# 1071430 , Reply# 4   5/8/2020 at 19:27 (1,419 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )   |   | |
Checkrate/Likes
 
     
|
Post# 1071466 , Reply# 5   5/8/2020 at 21:06 (1,419 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
Checkrate/Likes
 
     
My 2 year old KitchenAid double oven induction range has slow cook feature in both ovens. I've use it several times over the years. I really like it when the quantity I'm cooking is beyond what my CorckPot can handle. I largly use it for ribs, brisket, roasts. Mine has a temperature range of 175 to 300 degrees. It just uses the lower element in both ovens. And for the oven with convection, the convection element and fan never comes on as a supplement. |
Post# 1071472 , Reply# 6   5/8/2020 at 21:49 (1,419 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
Checkrate/Likes
 
     
It cooks like a slow cooker/Rival Crock Pot would...
A “high” setting, which after 2 hours of cooking, realized I would be “fast cooking” before I turned it down to “low”, and changed the 8 hours it was initially set at to 7 hours but it must have been 6 because it shut off at 4, not the 5 or 6 that I’d planned... But at least that slab of beef that went in first got fully done, and I have another one to cook with the remaining vegetables that there are a lot of left of... — Dave |
Post# 1071474 , Reply# 7   5/8/2020 at 22:01 (1,419 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine)   |   | |
Checkrate/Likes
 
2    
|
Post# 1071477 , Reply# 8   5/8/2020 at 22:42 (1,419 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )   |   | |
Checkrate/Likes
 
1    
|
Post# 1071478 , Reply# 9   5/8/2020 at 22:56 (1,419 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
Checkrate/Likes
 
     
Well, somehow Ii found the feature novel, and I don't know what I'd miss if I bought a range that didn't have it or stuff like a Bread Proofing or Dehydrating that regular run of the mill ranges don't...
It would get tiring pressing arrows versus numbers that this range uses for settings and I don't mistake minutes for hours finding the range would turn off when I want to do a timed bake or stand pressing for a delay start trying to read 120 minutes or more, versus my 6 hours literally being that, just watch the zeros... This is still a new stove and have only had for a month going on two, so there's a lot more to discover and haven't yet used, so I chose this one even for the much more money for cheaper brands, and the blue oven-interior is even pleasant to look at... So no different than anything else new out there, and I could probably not trust anything used... -- Dave |
Post# 1071480 , Reply# 10   5/8/2020 at 23:09 (1,419 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
Checkrate/Likes
 
1    
I use the small upper oven of my GE electric range as a slow cooker all the time by setting the temp between 225 degrees (Lo) and 240-250 degrees (Hi).
Today’s ranges are well insulated. Electricity used at temps mimicking countertop slow cookers is minimal. The late Phyllis Stokes, who had a wonderful cooking channel on YouTube, did a test using a full-size electric oven and found the oven actually used a bit less electricity compared to a countertop slow cooker. My small upper oven probably uses even less power. Have nothing against slow cookers—used to have 3 in different sizes—but they found new homes during The Great Downsizing of 2017.
View Full Size
|
Post# 1071487 , Reply# 11   5/9/2020 at 00:53 (1,419 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )   |   | |
Checkrate/Likes
 
     
I wouldn't mind having a proofing setting because I bake a lot of bread. My oven does have a "warming" button but it gets too warm for proofing. So I just turn that on for maybe 3 minutes , turn it off and use the residual heat for proofing. You used to be able to just use the interior light but this one is and LED, so no heat from the light.
|