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Post by gale w on Mar 20, 2019 19:39:26 GMT
I was looking up something else and this came up with most sites saying not to do it. My "slow cooker" seems to cook just as fast as my stove. Within an hour or so on high it's simmering. And it just so happens I have boneless chicken breasts in there that were frozen when I put them in. Do you worry about it? I don't think I would put them on low but on high it seems like it's not much different than boiling them on the stove.
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Post by peaname on Mar 20, 2019 19:44:31 GMT
No my slow cooker takes too long to get them hot enough. I use my pressure cooker for frozen meat.
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Post by kelly8875 on Mar 20, 2019 19:46:14 GMT
I do it. My slow cooker gets hot quick. I usually start frozen meat on high, then turn it down to low for the rest of the cook.
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Post by AmandaA on Mar 20, 2019 19:52:27 GMT
Always. I buy the giant bags of frozen chicken at Costco and always have some in the freezer. I don’t like having raw chicken in the kitchen if I can avoid it so it always goes in frozen. I do usually get the tenderloin cuts though, so they are smaller and thaw/cook quicker than the full breasts. My slow cooker is one of the newer ones that heats up really fast and low doesn’t cook like low on the older ones. Things simmer in no time even on low and I have to be careful not to over cook things.
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Post by gale w on Mar 20, 2019 19:59:07 GMT
I just checked the temp of my chicken. After 2.5 hours (and it's literally boiling) it's over 200 degrees. So I think I'm okay. I suppose it's hard to have guidelines across the board when some slow cookers like the IP are really low temp and some (like mine) are higher, and some people only cook on low and some cook on high. I also don't like having raw juicy chicken lying around so I prefer to cook it from frozen. Usually I just buy the already cooked kind (it's actually not that much more expensive).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2019 20:01:50 GMT
No but mainly because I can't stand the thought of the juice that comes off of chicken when it thaws being incorporated into whatever I'm cooking.
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Post by vi on Mar 20, 2019 20:07:52 GMT
I'm with you -- my slow cooker gets hot fast. I always cook frozen chicken breasts and don't even give it a thought. So far I haven't had any problems at all. I also cook them on high and then turn them down depending on how soon I am going to eat.
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Post by gale w on Mar 20, 2019 20:08:23 GMT
No but mainly because I can't stand the thought of the juice that comes off of chicken when it thaws being incorporated into whatever I'm cooking. Same. I remembered this after it was cooking for a while and I looked in there and saw that layer of weird white stuff.  |
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Post by teacherlisa on Mar 20, 2019 23:23:29 GMT
I don’t believe it is safe so I don’t do it.
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Post by Kerri W on Mar 21, 2019 0:51:32 GMT
Yes. I don't use my crockpot often, but when I do I almost always end up using frozen chicken breasts.
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Post by nlwilkins on Mar 21, 2019 5:38:48 GMT
I worry about the crock pot cracking if or when a squirt of cold, cold stuff from the middle of the frozen meat hits the crock pot. I've seen this happen when cooking in a corningn ware dish on the stove. So I kinda think it could happen. I thaw my chicken in the refrigerator before putting in the crock pot.
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Post by littlemama on Mar 21, 2019 10:34:17 GMT
I dont put any chicken in the slow cooker because the short cook times needed for chicken in a slow cooker dont mesh well with my being at work for a full day.
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