I love this thing so much I had to come back and write a review. I've only had it about two weeks and have only made about four dishes, but I definitely plan to make many more. What's so wonderful for me is that I bought it primarily because my stove has some kind of auto-shut off that stops it after 30 minutes of continuous use. It almost takes that long to boil water, so I couldn't do much more than quick cooking on the stove. It took constant switching back and forth between burners every half hour for 2-3 hours just to make a pot of kintoki beans (that I use as a substitute for pinto beans here). I contemplated getting this, got it, found a plethora of recipes and will be spending my weekends trying them. I've made chili beans, beef and broccoli, chicken parmesan, and best of all, a peach cobbler! It's wonderful! I didn't know you could "bake" in a slow cooker, but now that I do, I'm going to use it to the fullest extent possible. The meat recipes I've made have all been so tender it's crazy, no knife required. The accompanying sauces have been so rich, I feel slightly guilty.
One downside I've encountered is that the bottom of things tends to burn. This was no problem with the chicken parm - it sort of added to the flavor - but, as you can imagine, peach cobbler isn't the best when the bottom is singed. I'm going to search the internet and see if there's something I'm not doing right or that I can do to prevent this before I make an apple cobbler next. Another downside is that most of the recipes are for quantities of meat you just can't get at the supermarket in Japan. The beef and broccoli I made was delicious, but a more apt name would have been broccoli in beef gravy because the meat practically cooked down to nothing. I halved a recipe I found to match the amount of beef I could buy (namely, all I could acquire was thinly-sliced beef when the recipe called for large, tough cuts), but still it wasn't enough to match the heat and time I let it cook. It would probably have been better if I hadn't let it cook so long, but that was my very first try. If I can find an affordable cut of meat, I'm going to try beef again, maybe make some carne guisada.
Anyway, I'm going to recommend a slow cooker to any foreigner in Japan who is as tired of convenience store bentos as I was, but doesn't have the kitchen space or appliances to cook very much of anything else.
| メーカー | ツインバード(TWINBIRD) |
|---|---|
| 型番 | EP-4717BR |
| 梱包サイズ | 28.4 x 26.6 x 25.8 cm |
| 素材 | ガラス, PP, セラミック, ステンレス鋼 |
| 色 | ブラウン |
| 電源 | 交流式 |
| 電圧(V) | 220 ボルト |
| 梱包重量 | 3.5 キログラム |
| 電池使用 | いいえ |
| 電池付属 | いいえ |
| ブランド名 | TWINBIRD(ツインバード) |
| 容量 | 3 L |
