12 best crockpots for cooking

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Orange-Cranberry

Rather than added refined sugar, this juice uses naturally sweet oranges and apples to complement the very tart cranberries. Adding a little cucumber provides essential minerals while also making for a lighter, lower-calorie, and easier-to-drink breakfast juice.

Calming Vegetable Juice

This juice is packed with essential minerals and B and C vitamins that can help ease stress and nerves. The complex carbohydrates in this juice also give it a low glycemic index score, which helps maintain even blood sugar.

Simple Alkalizer

In this refresher, the highly alkalizing properties of cucumber and celery are combined with the slightly alkalizing lemon. It’s a bright, fresh juice that is especially enjoyable over ice on a hot summer’s day.

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The juicing basics

Discover the many ways juicing can benefit your body, get help choosing the right juicer, and find out how the nutrients in juices can help treat many common ailments.

A guide to ingredients

Explore the health properties of dozens of different fruits, veggies, and other additives with the help of handy ingredient profiles.

100 Refreshing recipes

Enjoy classics like Easy Apple Celery Juice, get creative with Pineapple Lavender Juice, or address specific needs with Immunity-Boosting Blast or Get-Up-and-Go Juice.

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Lasagna that Won’t Wear Out Its Welcome

We redesign our recipe to serve two by trading a baking pan for a loaf pan. A few ingredients added to the sauce gives us a velvety texture reminiscent of a Bolognese sauce, meatloaf mix (a combination of ground beef, veal, and pork) adds more flavor and richness than ground beef alone, and no-boil lasagna noodles were a timesaver and fit neatly into the pan.

Single Skillet Feast for Two

There’s nothing more satisfying than fork-tender beef slow-roasted with creamy potatoes and sweet carrots. But when you’re cooking for two, you want all that, and less (less meat than called for in a classic pot roast recipe, and less prep and cleanup, too). We found top blade steak to be a very tender and richly flavored cut of meat that’s well suited to pot roasting; it has plenty of collagen to break down and add flavor during cooking.

Just the Right Number of Freshly Baked Cookies

Our favorite recipe for Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies yields 24 cookies—far too many even for a pair of die-hard cookie fans. We wanted a recipe for 12 cookies, and we wanted it to be quick and convenient. Our secret? Melted butter gives the cookies a chewy texture and enables us to easily stir our ingredients by hand (no lugging out the electric mixer to cream the butter and sugar).

Greek-Style Lamb Pita Sandwiches

We wanted restaurant-style Greek gyros—slices of shaved, marinated lamb, tomato slices, crisp lettuce, and cooling cucumber-yogurt sauce stuffed inside a soft pita—that we could make at home. Rather than the traditional shaved slices of meat from a vertical rotisserie, we pan-fried ground lamb patties flavored with mint, onion, and minced garlic.

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Hands Off: Set it and forget it until dinner time.

If you think your slow cooker is a one-trick kitchen tool, think again. The Complete Slow Cooker shows that this humble appliance can be used to make almost anything. Sure, there are lots and lots of stews, soups, chilis, & braises. But how about easy appetizers (from chicken wings to garlicky Spanish-style shrimp) or desserts, including warm chocolate pudding cake & Key Lime Pie (yes, you read that right!). This 400 recipe collection shows the true versatility of the humble slow cooker.

Classic Pot Roast with Carrots and Potatoes

We break a large chuck-eye roast into smaller roasts and brown them for the ultimate slow-cooker pot roast.

Southwestern Black Bean and Bulgur Bowls

This healthy bean-bulgur bowl is easy to make in a slow cooker, which is the perfect way to infuse the beans with flavor.

Classic Barbecued Spareribs

These fall-off-the-bone tender barbecued pork spareribs need only a simple pantry barbecue sauce and a few minutes under the broiler to develop a lightly charred exterior.

Mashed Potatoes

If you’ve cooked mashed potatoes on Thanksgiving, you know that making them is one of the last tasks you need to tackle before dinner is served. Use this recipe and rewrite the script.

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Sample Recipe: Baked Potatoes with Avocado Pico de Gallo

Directions:

1. Scrub the potatoes thoroughly and dry with paper towels. Pierce each with a fork in several places. Rub them with olive oil. Wrap each potato tightly in aluminum foil. Put the potatoes in the slow cooker.

2. Cover and cook on low for 8 hours, or until the potatoes are tender when pierced with a fork. Remove the wrapped potatoes from the slow cooker, cover with a towel to keep warm, and set aside.

3. To prepare the pico de gallo, in a medium bowl, gently stir together the onion, tomatoes, cilantro, and avocado. Season with salt and pepper.

4. Unwrap each potato and halve lengthwise. Fluff the potato flesh with a fork. Top each potato with a generous portion of pico de gallo and serve.

Nutritional Info:

PER SERVING Calories: 410; Total Fat: 12g; Saturated Fat: 2g; Cholesterol: 0mg; Sodium: 50mg; Total Carbohydrates: 72g; Fiber: 8g; Protein: 9g

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Recipe Collection

This book was designed to be an ultimate collection of Crock-Pot slow cooker recipes. We’ve compiled and tested hundreds of recipes in the hopes of creating a single, reliable guide to the best use of your Crock-Pot slow cooker. Includes slow cooking tips and over 350 delicious recipes!

Reveal your Crock-Pot slow cooker’s versatility and the exciting recipes you can create with it. Your Crock-Pot slow cooker can be the best kitchen assistant you've ever had. Your family will enjoy delicious meals, and you'll save time and effort, thanks to the flavorful cooking process that works while you're away from home.

Bacon-Wrapped Dates

Asian Lettuce Wraps

Meatballs and Spaghetti Sauce

Corn on the Cob with Garlic Herb Butter

Maple-Dry Rubbed Ribs

1. Coat inside of Crock-Pot slow cooker with nonstick cooking spray. Combine 1 teaspoon chili powder, coriander, ½ teaspoon garlic powder, salt and pepper in small bowl; stir to blend. Brush ribs with 1 tablespoon syrup; rub with spice mixture. Move ribs to Crock-Pot slow cooker.

2. Combine tomato sauce, remaining 1 teaspoon chili powder, ½ teaspoon garlic powder, 2 tablespoons syrup, cinnamon and ginger in medium bowl; stir to blend. Pour tomato sauce mixture over ribs in Crock-Pot slow cooker. Cover; cook on Low 8 to 9 hours.

3. Remove ribs to large serving platter; cover with foil to keep warm. Turn Crock-Pot slow cooker to High. Cover; cook on High 10 to 15 minutes or until sauce is thickened. Brush ribs with sauce and serve any remaining sauce on the side.

Makes 4 servings.

Fudge and Cream Pudding Cake

1. Coat inside of 5-quart Crock-Pot slow cooker with butter. Combine flour, light brown sugar, 3 tablespoons cocoa, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in medium bowl. Add cream, oil and vanilla; stir to blend. Pour batter into Crock-Pot slow cooker.

2. Combine hot water, dark brown sugar and remaining 2 tablespoons cocoa in medium bowl; stir well. Pour sauce over cake batter. Do not stir. Cover; cook on High 2 hours.

3. Spoon pudding cake onto plates. Serve with whipped cream, if desired.

Makes 8 to 10 servings.

Crock-Pot Slow Cooker

It’s been more than 40 years since the introduction of the Crock-Pot slow cooker. During that time, more than 100 million Crock-Pot slow cookers have found their way into homes across the country and around the world.

How has the Crock-Pot slow cooker so firmly established itself among the most reliable and versatile appliances in so many kitchens? Convenience and variety. For today’s busy cooks, Crock-Pot slow-cooked dishes put home-cooked meals back on the table. Crock-Pot slow cookers also simplify the process of creating party fare and ethnic specialties with minimal effort and maximum flavor. And they do all this with little or no attention from the cook; set the Crock-Pot slow cooker up, turn it on and return when it is time to eat.

When you're entertaining, you can rely on your Crock-Pot slow cooker to free up a burner or leave valuable oven space for another item on your menu — plus cleanup is quick and easy. It makes a great server for hot beverages, appetizers or dips. Or, you can bring a slow-cooked dinner to a potluck supper and keep it warm during serving. No wonder Crock-Pot slow cookers are loved by cooks across America. Don't wait any longer to get started slow cooking. You'll be putting family-pleasing meals on the table every day of the week.