This complete Slow Cooker Cooking Chart has suggested times for low and high slow cooking for all categories of food. Slow cooking can be as easy as dumping in your ingredients and letting the slow cooker or Crock Pot work its magic. In addition to simplicity, a slow cooker brings out wonderful flavors in your food and produces tender meats. Use this chart to take the guess work out of how long your food needs to cook in a slow cooker . Print the download for a handy reference to keep in your kitchen.
I love my slow cooker-but it seems some dishes come out ok – but most of them are blahhh – take for instant cooking a whole chicken I did once – it ended up as chicken soup and recently I tried pork and I don’t know what I did, but it was tough – I was taught low heat and slowly cooking pork it comes out tender- but it was tough and I seem to never add enough seasoning and my slow cooker food is bland. I want my food to explode in my mouth – that my mouth is on party mode and I’m not getting that… HELP
Hi Germaine. Have you checked out my article on Slow Cooking 101? https://bluejeanchef.com/cooking-school/slow-cooking-101/ You’ll find tips and tricks for slow cooking in the school articles, but the most important thing to know with respect to slow cooking is that there is very little evaporation. So, you want to make sure you use good quality, flavorful stocks – their flavor won’t concentrate the way it would on the stovetop. Do remember to brown your foods in a separate pan first as well – that adds a lot of flavor.
Hi Meredith,
Thank you for the charts. I won’t have to be guessing anymore on the temperature and times for all the equipment I have. Love your dog pics.
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I love my slow cooker-but it seems some dishes come out ok – but most of them are blahhh – take for instant cooking a whole chicken I did once – it ended up as chicken soup and recently I tried pork and I don’t know what I did, but it was tough – I was taught low heat and slowly cooking pork it comes out tender- but it was tough and I seem to never add enough seasoning and my slow cooker food is bland. I want my food to explode in my mouth – that my mouth is on party mode and I’m not getting that… HELP
Hi Germaine. Have you checked out my article on Slow Cooking 101? https://bluejeanchef.com/cooking-school/slow-cooking-101/ You’ll find tips and tricks for slow cooking in the school articles, but the most important thing to know with respect to slow cooking is that there is very little evaporation. So, you want to make sure you use good quality, flavorful stocks – their flavor won’t concentrate the way it would on the stovetop. Do remember to brown your foods in a separate pan first as well – that adds a lot of flavor.
Thank you so much for these cooking charts. The sous vide chart is particularly timely – I just purchased a sous vide machine.
Hi Meredith,
Thank you for the charts. I won’t have to be guessing anymore on the temperature and times for all the equipment I have. Love your dog pics.
Hello Meredith, I have two books for slow cook they’re not much of a help. Your charts for slow cook will be a great help for me thank you very much.