slow cooker

A new slow cooker pork recipe from Simply Recipes uses just three ingredients and is being praised as 'so succulent'. The dish is pitched as an easy, minimal-effort meal for home cooks, following the ongoing popularity of low-fuss slow cooker recipes that deliver tender results with little preparation.

Food media are marking the start of October with a push toward slow cooker cooking, dubbing the month 'Crocktober'. The Pioneer Woman is sharing a roundup of slow cooker recipes, encouraging home cooks to dust off their crockpots as autumn weather sets in and hearty, hands-off meals return to weekly menus.

A food nostalgia feature lists eight meals that were supposedly simmering away in slow cookers across 1970s American kitchens. Nostalgic food lists of this kind circulate widely, prompting readers to recall the era's fondue-adjacent, canned-soup-heavy cooking and debate which dishes really defined the decade's countertop crock pots.