Slow Cooker Home Cooking

• Slow Cooker 101

• A

  • Appetizers, Snacks, & Spreads

• B

  • Beef Recipes

  • Beverage Recipes

  • Breakfast Recipes

• C

  • Chicken Recipes & Turkey Recipes

• D

  • Desserts Recipes

• L

  • Lamb Recipes

• P

  • Party Thyme Treat Recipes

  • Pork Recipes

• S

  • Seafood Recipes

  • Soup, Stew and Chili Recipes

• V

  • Vegetable Recipes

A slow cooker, also called a Crock-PotŪ, is a cooking device consisting of a pot (typically 10 inches across and similarly high) made of fired clay and usually glazed, surrounded by a housing, usually metal, containing a thermostatically controlled electric heating element. 

The ceramic pot, often referred to as a crock, acts as both a cooking container and a heat reservoir. Many slow cookers have two settings for power. Slow cookers have loosely fitting lids (often of glass or similar material) to retain moisture and heat.