Converting oven recipe to slow cooker

Question

I have a casserole recipe that I generally cook in the oven. I'd like to try it in my slow cooker for several reasons: convenience, timing, opening up the oven for another dish. Is there a general rule of thumb to convert the directions for the oven to an equivalent for a slow cooker?

Answer

Roughly speaking, the low setting on a crock pot is 200 degrees, and the high setting is 300 degrees.

Crock pot time vs oven time 4-6 hrs on low = 15-30 min oven 6-8 hrs on low = 35-45 min oven 8-18 hrs on low = 1-3 hrs in oven

In addition to the liquid notes above, you may want to make these changes as well:

• reduce the amount of whole/leaf herbs by half
• add ground spices during the last 30 min of cook time
• you may prefer to brown meat before cooking in the crock pot; it's a flavor & fat issue
• add rice or noodles in the last two hours of low cook time

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