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Scientastic posted:I have a slow cooker (admittedly I only use it for stock) and my wife uses it a lot. Because she has to look after the kids during the day: you can quickly prepare an alright meal from fresh ingredients and leave things in it for a long period of time and go out to the park/museum/zoo, which you can't really do with the oven, and definitely can't do on the hob. I agree with this post, and I also champion slow cookers as a gateway cooking utensil. I started learning to cook from Goons With Spoons from the chili thread five years back, because I knew it was something I liked that I couldn't gently caress up with a slow cooker. That led to me refining my chili recipe to include homemade chili powder. Then, once I figured out I could make my own chili powder, I figured out I could cook almost anything at home. We don't use the slow cooker a ton any more, but it got me cooking.
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The whole argument is a bit silly because it's different strokes for different folks. I had car trouble a couple months ago and my girlfriend basically moved in to help me get to and from work while we sorted out the car situation. Then my grandfather died 1400 miles away and I had to fly back and deal with that. In the meantime, we haven't been able to replace my car because of scheduling issues and I quickly had to learn to cook for two on an intensely variable schedule. Hell, I just bought a pressure cooker to help speed up the process. I was straight up on mindphlux's side while I was just cooking for myself, but after several weeknights of just, "gently caress, make something edible," that slow cooker was looking good to me.
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I wasn't even a contributor during Whirled Peas but please god don't ever bring that back.
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Apr 23, 2016 23:27
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Croatoan posted:Mindphlux is a dick. That's his thing. Please ignore him. I can't believe I've been following goons with spoons for this long now, but no one should ignore mindphlux for the simple fact that he challenged bartolimu to a cook off to defend his right to not use punctuation and capital letters in the general chat thread and won: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3485340 Happy hat's voting thread was pretty great too: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3485600 Cracked me up way back when. Call out threads are the best. Back to crock talk.
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