Rice and pasta dishes work best cooked on high for the shortest time possible. Always use easy-cook rice, rinsed well first – the more starch you rinse from the rice, the better the finished result. Cook up a delicious and nutritious storm from our range of slow cookers. Alongside work and daily life tasks, cooking a fresh dinner from scratch can often feel daunting at the end of the day. A slow cooker is the perfect hassle-free way to make hearty meals whilst you’re at work or completing daily tasks. Ready to be eaten when you get home, as the slow cooker completes all the hard work for you - like magic! Save time - Prep your meals the night before then turn your slow cooker on low all day and come home to a delicious meal Cook a range of delicious family dishes such as casseroles and soups, with the large 6.5 litre capacity providing enough space to serve up to 5 portions By sealing food in pouches, the juices and subtle flavours that could otherwise be lost during conventional cooking are retained.

No liquid escapes from a slow cooker, so when adapting a recipe not specifically written for a slow cooker, reduce any added liquid by a third. Our first average we look at for Tower 6.5 L Slow Cooker is to judge it against other products from the same brand, in this case it’s Tower. This tells us that there are a total of 247 Tower products at Robert Dyas. Design: Are you looking for a simple, budget-friendly option that just slow-cooks (but does it extremely well) or something more versatile that sous-vides, pressure cooks, bakes and roasts too? Do bear in mind that the more technological the slow cooker, the higher the price. Size: With sizes starting at 1-litre through to a whopping 6.5-litres, choosing the right size for you is imperative. The smallest sizes are suitable when cooking for one or two. 3-litres to 4.5-litres (one of the most popular sizes on the market) serve four, and the large 6-6.5-litre models are super for families and batch cooking. It's also worth bearing in mind that the capacity stated on the sales blurb is the size of the bowl, not the working capacity, which can sometimes be half that. The inner pot needs to be at room temperature before you start cooking. If you've kept a slow cooker dish in the fridge, you must wait for it to warm up before turning it on.Unwanted Food or Drink Products - Once supply conditions are broken, there are a number of factors outside of our control that can affect the quality of a product. Therefore perishable goods such as food and drink cannot be returned.

They also calculate the energy consumed by each model to see how economical they are, and measure the moisture lost when cooking to ensuring your dinner won't end up dried out.For reasons of hygiene and safety, personal grooming products, cosmetics or items of intimate clothing cannot be returned. Finished results: the tenderness of the meat and vegetables, the consistency of the cooked sauce and the heat of the food when serving Presenting a one stop pot for cooking all of your curries, soups, stews and casseroles, this stainless steel Tower manual slow cooker makes preparing family meals hassle-free. This will come in handy if you’re out for the day. Once the timer you set has been reached, the cooker will either switch off or automatically shift to the ‘keep warm’ setting, depending on the model, so you come home to dinner that's ready to serve. Choose from low and high heat settings, along with a keep warm function so your meal is ready when you get home from work

Some slow cookers will automatically shift to this mode after a programme has ended, while others require switching manually. The controls tend to be similar on most slow cookers with a ‘low’ setting for longer, slower cooking throughout the day and a ‘high’ setting for faster cooking with similar slow-cooked results.However, we then like to go a little deeper to explore more detail about the product by looking at products in the same category as Tower 6.5 L Slow Cooker. That then tells us that there are 1589 products in the Cookers & Ovens category at Robert Dyas. This function starts your cooking off on a high setting before automatically reducing the temperature to the low setting for the remainder of the cooking time. Below you'll find the best slow cookers according to our experts, as well as everything you need to know before shopping – from must-have features to their energy efficiency. How we test slow cookers Slow Cooker with 3 Heat Settings and Keep Warm Function Beautifully tender meats and casseroles are easily achieved with this slow cooker

An increasingly popular way of cooking, sous-vide is a French term that simply means ‘under vacuum’. You place your food inside a sealed pouch and then pop it into a temperature-controlled water bath to cook.

Slow cookers are nifty appliances that do all the cooking for you, so you can whip up scrumptious meals without spending hours working away behind a stove. Not quite what you’re looking for? Discover more ways to make tasty hearty meals using our vast range of air fryers to microwaves, you can find everything you need at Robert Dyas. Find more ways to save on energy around the home with our super handy blog post.