Crock Pot Recipe Tips & Advice

Series Summary

Slow cookers, or crock pots, are a great way to cook stews and other dishes without a lot of preparation or time spent. Because a slow cooker cooks soups and stews at such a low temperature, food can be left unattended for hours without worrying about overcooking or burning. There are several other advantages of cooking meals in your crock pot. Meat often becomes moist and retains flavor better in a crock pot recipe, and flavors can be blended easily in just a one pot meal.

In this free cooking video series, our expert will demonstrate how to make a delicious and hearty crock pot beef stew. If you don't have a lot of time to spend cooking but want a full meal when you get home, this is the perfect recipe for you. Our expert chef will demonstrate how to prepare the beef and vegetables for this beef stew recipe and show you how use your crock pot or slow cooker to prepare the meal. A great recipe for cold winters, crock pot beef strew can be started in the morning and left to cook during the day so that it is ready as soon as you get home from work. This easy crock pot recipe will be sure to please the whole family.

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Dave for Expert Village today were going to make crock pot beef stew. For our beef stew were going to need the crock pot you may have grown up with this so the component of the crock pot is you'll see this is a bowl that goes in. This is where the electricity is as you see your going to plug this in and it has a crock pot in here this is a ceramic bowl that goes in here that will absorb the heat. We'll put the meat in here and all the vegetables and then it takes overnight to cook you can do it quicker to. It has a nice glass lid to hold in the steam and you'll see this is a large unit you can also get the traditional round ones that you see. It also has the off button here and it also a low so that takes longer to cook but for some items that you want to cook you can take 12-15 hours if you like. There's also a high which of course it would make your food come out quicker but it has all these options so this is a great way to go."