Customer Reviews

1,001 Best Slow-Cooker Recipes: The Only Slow-Cooker Cookbook You'll Ever Need

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This is the second book I have bought in the '1001 Recipes' series, and I haven't been disappointed with either one! The recipes in this slow cooker book are delicious, and they are broken down into well-organized chapters. I especially like that there are two chapters for vegetarian recipes...there is something for everyone! Though not explicitly advertised as a low-fat book, this book has recipes that have an aim to be healthy and lower in fat and calories. Every recipe has nutritional information, which is very helpful. I think that the only thing I would change about the book would be to add a breakfast chapter. Other than that, great book!

We just started to make Crock Pot, slow cooker, meals to take advantage of the money and time savings. We both work long hours and really need to have dinner ready soon after getting home. This book contains a truly wide variety of recipes covering all meals (and dessert). We have tried a number of the dinner selections and have been very happy with all of them. Thumbing through the book, we are sure the ones we haven't gotten to yet will be just as satisfying. Excellent choice for people who have never tried slow cooking. Well thought out with a nice variety.

My son gave us a slow cooker and some cookbooks to start me off on new culinary adventures, and this is my favorite one so far. It's loaded with easy to put together recipes and excellent nutrition information. Although not a "healthy" or "low fat" cookbook specifically, a lot of the recipes are healthy and nutritious, or have healthy options. And salt is always added last and only to taste. No cream of mushroom soup recipes here. The slow cooker I got is Hamilton Beach 33134 3-in-1 Slow Cooker with 2-, 4-, and 6-Quart Crocks and it's great.

If you like to eat stews and soups, then this is the book for you. There are definitely 1,001 recipes, but about 70% of those recipes are stews and soups. The sad thing is that there are a few recipes that are exactly the same except for one or two ingredients (say with carrots and potatoes or withouot). Good for a first-timer who has no imagination. But if you thought you would be getting variety with 1,001 different recipes, look for another book.

I found that a significant number of recipes in this book rely on canned foods. Anyone can throw a couple of canned beans and veggies together and call it soup. I was a bit disappointed with this book.

I just purchased this and haven't made any of the recipes yet. I want to alert Kindle users to the fact that the nutritional information is provided in a large block, which takes up almost as much space as the recipe. For some recipes, this info takes an entire page, so you have to scroll through an entire page of the nutritional info from one recipe to get to the next recipe. What this means is that the recipes are oddly laid out because of all the space taken up by these blocks of nutritional info. I think this distracts from the usability of the Kindle version.

I don't do the cooking in our household and I don't count carbs or things like that - which explains why most the recipes in this scrumptious book won't be made in my house.

Sigh.

My favorite chapter was the 51 pages of meat stews. All of them sound delicious. There is little concession here to eating super-healthy. And gourmands who use only fresh grown ingredients will definitely not like this book. But for those of us who enjoy filling, tasty meals - this book is a slice of Heaven.

All of the recipes are designed with time and convenience in mind. There are no sophisticated techniques here. Somoe of the recipes are a tiny bit adventurous, like beef, cabbage, potato and rice stew.

There are seven (!) chapters of soups, chowders and chilis. Some them sound like they would be quite tasty.

In all, 16 chapters cover meat, poultry, fish and seafood and vegetarian stews, side dishes and other entrees, appetizers, breads and sandwiches and desserts.

For anyone with a slow-cooker or, as it more commonly known, a crock-pot, this is a recipe paradise. Our crock-pot is used more days than not. Now I guess I just have to do some begging to get one or two of those wonderful beef stews on the menu!

The book has one small omission: there isn't a single photo of any of these mouth watering recipes.

Jerry

I am returning this cookbook because it just didn't have anything I would usually cook. I was looking for recipes for large quantities such as whole chicken and the larger pork roasts. This cookbook should be renamed as a health cookbook as almost all of the recipes were for boneless skinless chicken breasts and small size pork recipes. The first 239 pages were all for soups - which we don't eat. I would do better printing off free recipes from the internet. A huge disapointment.

I think that this is a fantastic cookbook! I have loved every recipe that I have tried! None of them are overly complicated. It does use a lot of canned goods but this is probably for convenience (fresh is always an option and can substituted if you know how and have the time). The inclusion of the nutritional information is great because I can use the weight watchers recipe builder to convert these recipes to a point value system. Other small recipe substitutions (like olive oil for the butter/margarine or whole wheat flour for the white flour, whole wheat pasta, etc.) can make for a healthier, more low fat dish. This is a good price on this cookbook becausee I paid $19.95 from a different source. This one is definitely a keeper!

I have several slow cooker books, as I love using my crockpot at least twice a week for the convenience. I was very pleased with this new book.
It's organized very nicely, which makes it easy to browse. There's something for just about everyone in this book.