Yeah recipetin eats is always a winner. Her fried chicke. And mac and cheese was aamzing
All the fresh fruit/vege is trucked in, so takes ~7 days to get to you if lucky. And the vast majority of meat is for live export due to proximity to ME. Everything more expensive.
Unless you were catching your own seafood, it was dire.
You weren’t looking in the right places 
Another +1 for recipe tin. Easy to follow, simple recipes. Also Aussie, so the measurements arent dumb yank shit and you should be able to find everything in the supermarkets or your local asian grocer.
Mob is good… they have a great Insta feed
So I was having a discussion with a mate the other day and he knows I like cooking, and being a single bloke I am making do with just my camp gas stove, no oven, just the gas stove.
But since it’s just me cooking and just the gas camp stove I’m a little limited to what I can make (excuses, excuses, etc) and he reckons what I need in my life are two things (other than getting laid, but I digress…). One is a slow cooker (I mentioned I’m craving my beef & guinness stew), and the other a rice cooker.
Now I just had a quick look online and they’re surprisingly cheaper than what I expected (I don’t know what I was expecting, thermomix prices probably).
Would anybody recommend a particular slow cooker for a single bloke who will use it maybe once a month? Or just I just grab a $50-60 one from Big W/K-Mart. Are they just as good?
Rice Cookers I’m not too fussed about. I honestly barely cook rice as I don’t eat a heap of it and it’s not that hard to make on a stove top. He was saying that you can also cook foods in a rice cooker.
As someone who enjoys cooking I’ve never thought about investing in a slow cooker before. I’ve enjoyed cooking low and slow the more traditional way for my entire life, but now I’m all by my self it may be something looking at (at least I can make a few more batch meals without needing to change out gas canisters every hour or so) and my normal repertoire of steak/chicken and veg can get a rest.
Get a slow cooker with a built in timer. Set it when you leave for work, have it turn off after 6-8 hours and you come home to a basically cooked meal minus any sides. Some things need a bit of prep beforehand, but a lot you can cut everything up the night before and whack it in easily before you leave (minus any browning of meat etc). They are brilliant in winter.
Haven’t looked into rice cooker meals, as they typically involve meat (wife is vego), I’ve seen people do what look like interesting chicken dishes etc in them.
I have a cheap slow cooker, definitely recommend. It’s great for soups and stews so definitely more of a winter thing. I’m doing lamb shanks in red wine tomorrow.
A good rice cooker is worth the extra money, over the cheap ones. A decent rice cooker will have separate programs for white, jasmine, basmati, brown and sticky rice, porridge, congee and more. Day old leftover rice is good for egg fried rice (Uncle Roger has good how to videos). But I guess if you don’t eat much rice then those microwaveable tubs are cheap and effective.
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I use my slow cooker about once a week but as Davee typed they don’t brown meat and sautéing vegetables take forever.
You can make a decent batch and have a few nights worth of meals or freeze leftovers.
You don’t need a rice cooker.
If you have a microwave one of those cheap plastic rice containers are easily done.
I’d say an air fryer would probably be a better use of money for you judging by what you have
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Maybe look at a multi cooker?
I use mine to sauté then pressure cook probably once a week.
You can use it as a rice cooker.
Pressure cooking is overlooked imo.
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Definitely the plan to make soups and stews I can bung in the microwave for winter. Beef & Guinness stew FTW.
Also going to see if I can do a puerco pinil with it.
Thats pretty much what I used if/when I want rice. They’re only a couple bucks too, hella convenient.
Already have one, gets plenty of use as well.
Looks like next payday I’ll get a slow cooker. 
I have a Crockpot brand one I haven’t used as often as I expected to but I’ve always been happy with the results. It’s a multi-purpose one: https://www.crockpot.com.au/crockpot-range/crockpot-express-easy-release-pressure-multicooker
I live on my own too and that one is small enough that I don’t have to cook a month’s worth of food every time.
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We have one (DeLonghi, from memory) where the inner part lifts out and is stove-top safe; so you can start it on the stove* like a normal pot to brown things and then pop it back in the electric part for slow cooking.
Probably a bit more pricy than your standard slow cooker, but it works really well.
(* we have a gas cooktop. It may not suit induction.)
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We have a multi cooker, so you can brown the meat inside it and then set to slow cook. We don’t use it that often, but we’ve made some amazing stews and even pulled pork etc. I’d go for the multi-function and it’s definitely amazing when you have the timer. As has been said, switch it on and then walk away. No is the time to buy as well, there’s heaps of sales with some items 40% off. If you want a bargain, can always go to Harvey Norman factory seconds in Auburn. They can sometimes have some good stuff in there. Been going there for years to buy fridges and stuff for my lab and you get some good deals
As soon as the cold weather hit last weekend, I did a Lamb stew in my Multicooker (browning the meat, then pressure cook the meat followed by slow cook vegetables and meat) and followed it up with ham (bacon) and pea (split peas) for four work lunches this week. I cannot praise multicookers enough.
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