Big Green Egg of slow cookers...with cast aluminum insert so you can sear meat, then slow cook it. All in the same pot.
Yes, I have one. My girls gave it to me last Christmas.
I gave one to my wife for Christmas. You could just do the high heat stuff in a Dutch oven, use a regular slow-cooker for the slow stuff, and save bagloads of $$$, but having an all-in-one is pretty nice in practice.
That photo looks like Thomas Keller's cassoulet recipe he made for that cooker. It's very good.
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Made stock last night. Acme had some marrow bones and I had a chicken and the last of the frozen turkey carcass. Peel from leeks onions carrot celery in there as well. Add a bunch of salt and butter and it is great super hot.
Great to deglaze pans with and to make oatmeal and rice etc etc
I had the fancier Breville (they have two models) for a minute before I returned it - something was fucked up with the safeties so it took 30 minutes to reach pressure.
Aside from a non-stick interior, functionally it offered nothing that the Instapot doesn't have, and I'd rather have the stainless as it turns out (no worries about the dishwasher wearing at the non-stick, have never had an issue with meat sticking if I use a reasonable amount of fat).
Put 5lbs of peeled and cut potatoes in crock pot with milk, chicken stock, garlic, salt and pepper. Cooked on high 5 hours. Switched to warm. Right before dinner added butter, sour cream, and some milk. Barely needed the mixer. And little mess and mps were hot when we served them. Winner.
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Aldi has a boneless pork shoulder roast that's got carnitas seasoning on it. Surprisingly good. The pork was pretty lean. The BBQ isn't as good seasoning wise but still not bad.
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