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I have just purchased a slow cooker just for camping from argos yesterday, £6.99, my mum has had the same one for about 3 years and swears by it, much better than my cracked one with a broken lid

Great thread this one.

Trying the ribs today. Will let you know how I get on. Think ribs and salad would be an awesome camping meal....

Had the ribs earlier. Just with a Tesco bbq marinade. Brilliant, meat just fell off the bone, really tender

Deffinatly be taking one camping. Great idea, pleased I stumbled onto this!!!

Quote: Originally posted by hattman on 19/2/2011

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Had the ribs earlier. Just with a Tesco bbq marinade. Brilliant, meat just fell off the bone, really tender

 

Deffinatly be taking one camping. Great idea, pleased I stumbled onto this!!!

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Quote: Originally posted by Safeway56 on 10/2/2011

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I've got both halogen oven and a slow cooker but nobody ever seems to mention the ancient technology of the pressure cooker. It does ribs, ham shanks and stews in a fraction of the time of the other methods. I've not taken ours camping yet but I willl be doing once the season starts.

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Quote: Originally posted by Margo + Jerry on 19/2/2011

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Quote: Originally posted by hattman on 19/2/2011

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Had the ribs earlier. Just with a Tesco bbq marinade. Brilliant, meat just fell off the bone, really tender

 

Deffinatly be taking one camping. Great idea, pleased I stumbled onto this!!!

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How did you cook the ribs in the slow cooker? We've had one for years at home but we only do casseroles mainly so be interested in other recipes.

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 Really simple, good thing for me

Just cut the rack into single ribs then marinated in a large bowl. After that just stick em in the slow cooker, pop the lid on.

Didn't add anything else. cooked them for around six hours.

Was really pleased with them, going to experiment with different marinades now...

Hope that helps...

Quote: Originally posted by hattman on 20/2/2011

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Quote: Originally posted by Margo + Jerry on 19/2/2011

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Quote: Originally posted by hattman on 19/2/2011

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Had the ribs earlier. Just with a Tesco bbq marinade. Brilliant, meat just fell off the bone, really tender

 

Deffinatly be taking one camping. Great idea, pleased I stumbled onto this!!!

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How did you cook the ribs in the slow cooker? We've had one for years at home but we only do casseroles mainly so be interested in other recipes.

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 Really simple, good thing for me

Just cut the rack into single ribs then marinated in a large bowl. After that just stick em in the slow cooker, pop the lid on.

Didn't add anything else. cooked them for around six hours.

Was really pleased with them, going to experiment with different marinades now...

Hope that helps...

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We always take our slow cooker on longer trips away. Our preferred recipes don't use much fluids:

Put a chicken in with garlic gloves (whole, you don't even need to chop or peel), salt and pepper, a bunch of lemon thyme, a squeeze of lemon and approx 300ml water. You can just thicken up the liquid when it's all cooked to make a delicious gravy and the chicken always comes our succulent.

Lamb is much the same (chunks or chops) we sometimes do it with garlic, ginger and chillies, sliced onion and a squeeze of lemon. Use either 300ml water (we always use 300ml fluid)  or a tin of chopped tomatoes and a splash of water, then put a tin of (drained) chick peas in when the meat is tender and serve with cous cous (which is ideal for camping because you basically just add water and oil, or butter).

 I always do bigger cuts of lamb in it at home, too, like shoulder or leg ( just make sure it'll fit in the slow cooker!) and cook it with some sprigs of rosemary, a squeeze of lemon juice, chuck a few cloves of garlic in (again, no need to peel) and 300ml water, then just let it cook all day. So easy!

Cheaper cuts of beef cook beautifully in the slow cooker, and they don't need to end up like a stew; I recently got some brisket (you can do topside or silverside etc, just as easily, and it never comes out tough), chucked it in the slow cooker with salt, pepper, an onion (cut in half) and 300ml water (or you could use wine, if you have any left over), and let it cook for most of the day. Let it stand for 10-15 minutes when it's finished cooking (and while you make gravy from the juices) and heat up a few ready made yorkshires in a frying pan with lid, and you have a traditonal Sunday dinner, without any fuss (and ideal for camping).

The slow cooker has to be the most under-rated kitchen appliance, NOT JUST FOR STEWS  and it's a great item to take camping. We even take ours to France, since even in hot weather it's so nice to have a good, wholesome no-fuss meal ready at the end of the day. It also lets you take advantage of lower cost cuts, since it tenderises stuff in the cooking process.