Slow Cooker Breakfasts to Start Your Day
3. Melting Ingredients
Melting butter, chocolate, and shortening can go wrong very quickly if you’re not babysitting your stove or microwave. With a slow cooker, however, you don’t have to worry about scorching ingredients. Put a couple inches of hot water in the bottom of the slow cooker and whatever you want to melt into a sealed glass mason jar. Then pop the lid on and set to high. You’ll have everything melted and at your fingertips, no danger of burning. Once melted, you can shift to warm to keep them liquid until you need them.
4. Infusions
Flavored oils and butters or simple syrups can be wonderful ingredients. And even better, they’re super easy to make in the slow cooker.
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Put your ingredients into sealed mason jars, place them in your slow cooker with water to come halfway up the sides of the jars, and set to high. After an hour, turn the heat to low. The longer they go, the more the flavors will infuse, so think two hours for a subtle flavor or up to four for more intensity. Then you can just strain and store.
5. Keeping Things Warm
Consider your slow cooker an alternative warmer when your oven is occupied. Whether you’re dealing with a batch of sterilized canning jars that need to keep warm before filling, a pan of rolls out of the oven that you want warm on the dinner table, hot dog buns you want steamy soft, or a sauce or side dish that needs to be kept warm, the slow cooker can be a backup warmer.
Place a damp, clean towel on the bottom of the slow cooker, and stack whatever needs to be kept warm on top. Lay a clean, lint-free tea towel over the top and then seal with the lid, if needed, to prevent condensation dripping on the contents. Set to warm, and the slow cooker will hold things without accidentally overcooking or damaging them.
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