So I received a slow cooker for my birthday from my brother and his family. So I tried a beef stew in it today.
Potatoes just wouldn’t cook. I wound up transferring it to my regular stew pot and boiling it madly for another 1/2 hour.
Also, half the meat was very tender and half was very dry.
I can fix the potato problem, just cut them up smaller.
But not sure what to do about the meat.
Oh and the onions remained big pieces. They usually cook down to nothing.
Must ponder…
Well, that sucks!
Could it be busted? It sounds like it didn’t get hot enough overall, but maybe did get hot enough on one side. Perhaps there’s a problem with the heating element?