Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Morphy Richards
• Model: 48715
• Released on: 2004-01-15

Manufacturer's Description
The healthy alternative to ready meals, slow cookers offer a convenient way to make fresh food. Easy to use, a slow cooker can left safely cooking away while you are out and about so you can enjoy freshly cooked meals without being tied to the kitchen. Simply add the ingredients to the crock pot and the slow cooker will gradually cook your meal over the course of several hours meaning you're in control of the ingredients and when you eat

Customer Reviews

Great flavour, a little fast
A slow cooker veterans we find that this cooker cooks fast. All we've done so far has had great flavour and even cooking, but you need to reduce the time by about 10-15%. Capacity great when doing a joint, but 3.5lt better for everyday family meals.

Great slow food
I'm a fan of slow cooking and have several slow cookers in various sizes. I see from other reviewers that this particular cooker has divided opinion. I find that this one performs very well and doesn't seem to me much different from other slow cookers in its level of heating. One thing I would say is that the recipe leaflet with the cooker doesn't mention slow roasting as one of the things that you can do in it. The booklet implies that everything has to be immersed in liquid. Ignore this. I roast all sorts of joints, such as rolled should of pork or lamb. Slow roasted duck legs are particularly succulent done this way (brown the skin a bit in a frying pan and then about and hour and a half on High followed by a couple of hours on Low). In general, it's very flexible about timing and you can juggle between heat settings. I tend to start early with an initial period at High or Medium for an hour or so then switch to Low at which most meat can very slowly cook for ages. Whole, small chickens are delicious slow-roasted, but use High for most of the time and preferably check that the thick part of the leg has reached over 80 degrees centigrade to kill off any salmonella. I've just experimented with some rather tough beef back ribs that are rather tough when roasted, fast in a conventional oven, but were very tender in this slow cooker. I browned them a bit (as a rack) in a frying pan and then transferred them the pre-heated slow-cooker with about 200ml of hot beef fat. Two hours on Medium, plus 2 hours on LOW: result, succulent beef ribs. I've done something similar with pork ribs.
I always pre-heat slow-cookers if I'm adding hot liquid or fat with the meat.

Fast Burner
Bought this one to allow for cooking larger quantities than the 3.5 litre model which has been a five star success. Unfortunately the larger cooker is in a different league. The heater is either over rated or the thermostatic control is useless. Unless it is full, on low, and cooking interupted by stirring, it cremates the contents. I wish we had bought another 3.5 litre model to supplement the other model. Disappointing.