Tips for Using Your Slow Cooker

Book excerpt: From the Fix-It and Forget-It slow-cooker experts, and the thousands of followers of the Fix-It and Forget-It.com blog and Facebook page, comes a book chock-full of tips for using your slow cooker. This is the book to turn to, whatever your slow-cooker question or dilemma. For example— Do I really have to brown the meat before putting it into the slow cooker, even if the recipe tells me to do that? Can I cook a dish in half the time on High if the recipe tells me to cook it on Low? How can I convert a stove-top or oven recipe so it can be cooked in a slow cooker? How do I keep chicken breasts from overcooking in a slow cooker? I don't have a baking insert. How do I "bake" a cake without one in my slow cooker? How can I get meat loaf or lasagna out of the slow cooker without breaking it and ruining its appearance? The collection includes real-life tested tips, plus stories of slowcooker successes and disasters, unusual discoveries, and slow cookers' role in special occasions. A handy resource for new and experienced cooks, from those who love their slow cookers and have learned by doing. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Good Books and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of cookbooks, including books on juicing, grilling, baking, frying, home brewing and winemaking, slow cookers, and cast iron cooking. We’ve been successful with books on gluten-free cooking, vegetarian and vegan cooking, paleo, raw foods, and more. Our list includes French cooking, Swedish cooking, Austrian and German cooking, Cajun cooking, as well as books on jerky, canning and preserving, peanut butter, meatballs, oil and vinegar, bone broth, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.