Pressure cooker or Slow Cooker?

[bigfoot3000]

What are the pros and cons and what is better for transforming tougher cuts as goat and mutton into juicy moist meats?

[bigfoot3000]

Come on you cooks!

[B00]

Can't speak for pressure cookers as I don't own one. They frighten me slightly! But I love my slow cooker. It's on as we speak with yesterdays leftover over roast lamb and a few scraggy bits of veg. It's perfect if you're ultra thrifty with food like me, makes everything delicious that comes out of it, no matter what you bung in it!

[bigfoot3000]

So the slow cooker uses magic to make everything taste great? Im sold! lol. How are tough cuts of meat on your slow cooker?

[B00]

not tough as all. Meat literally falls apart in them. Which can sometimes be a bit of problem getting it out again!

I can't praise SC's enough though, any old scraggy/cheap bits of meat comes out loverrrly from it.

[bigfoot3000]

Hmm, I may just have to look into slow cookers more closely.

[mrs.chappie]

I love the slow cooker too. Would be a bit worried about using a pressure cooker - just in case I ended up with my meal adorning the ceiling.

[Dris]

Slow Cookers -as B00 said you just bung things in and you literally just leave it to cook itself.Mine too is on -threw some veg and split peas in first thing on low and the soup will be lovely come tea time.
Makes the cheapest cuts tender.
I too was scared of the pressure cooker so didnt use the one I bought.

[Jan1957]

Definitely a slow cooker every time. You can just bung everything in and leave it but never trusted a pressure cooker. As Boo says slow cooking is very good for the cheaper meat cuts.

[B00]

They're a Godsend if you're at work all day.

i throw leftover roast meat in, leftover veg, a bit of liquid, which in my case is usually a vegetable cupa soup, and switch on. Get home from work, you've a gorgeous stew waiting for you- ooo that rhymed!

[ChuckFickens]

I also love my slow cooker, and you don't exactly have to break the bank to get one, I have this one and it works just fine.

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.100-2168.aspx

[mccfluff]

i want one but i'm a bit worried about leaving it on in the house with a derranged cat whilst i'm at work all day.

I;ve heard goat takes a lot of cooking but mutton isn't so bad, makes a lovely curry :-)

[bigfoot3000]

Cheers for your answers everyone but how does a slow cooker beat a pressure cooker in your eyes or vice versa, has anyone got any experience with both?

[B00]

wow thats a bargain Chuck!

Mine was about £20/30 from Argos a few years ago, and I love it. I've bought many a kitchen gadget over the years and they sit gathering dust in a cupboard (the crap cupboard, to give it its offical title) but this baby has pride of place on my work top.

[LoftyLottie]

Actually I preferred my pressure cooker, but it got old and I couldn't get a replacement part. I loved it and think the food tasted better from the pressure cooker than from the slow cooker. Also to produce a wonderful stew or casserole in record speed time was fantastic. I think come winter I will get another one.

[bigfoot3000]

Aah so you had both ll, so the pressure cooker beats the slow cooker because of quicker cooking times? Well that's a key selling point to me. Flavour wise and with meat is there any real comparison?

[McMouse]

When I was a child my mother used a pressure cooker. I can vouch that it made everything tender...........but the process rendered meat ande veg tasteless.

[LoftyLottie]

I didn't find that when I pressure cooked. You have to be careful not to overcook. I even used to make spag.bol. in it in about 10minutes and it was full of flavour.

[bigfoot3000]

Maybe Ill just get a cheap version of each and take them on a couple of test runs and see what offers the best quality, flavour, softest meat etc...

[ethandron]

there's nothing to be frightened of about a pressure cooker, you just have to get used to using one. i used to have an aluminium prestige one and used it all the time, it was great. after about 20 years continuous use, the handle came loose and i stopped using it. eventually i binned it and never bothered buying a new one. now there's just the two of us to cook for i don't think i'd get the use out of one the way i used to. had a slow cooker too and found it totally useless, never got on with it at all but i know there are those who swear by them. mind you, there are those who swear by george foreman grills too and they're another horrible piece of kitchen kit, cannot abide the way they cook any food especially meat.
i think both are either wonderful or a waste of money, depending on who you ask. you'd probably have to bite the bullet and buy either or both and decide for yourself.

[coccinelle]

I'd go for a slow cooker anyday. With a pressure cooker it does cook quickly but you have to be nearby not to forget it as overcooking is a problem or worse it boils dry! You also have a kitchen full of steam to contend with. Whereas a slow cooker just cooks by itself, you leave it and hours later whenever you want eveything's ready. The only thing I have burnt in the SC is rice pudding... Also washing up wise a SC is easier to clean than a PC