Slow Cookers, is the one from Tesco any good?

My experience is that all but the dearest, multifunction slow cookers are close to useless.

If you have an oven and a large cast iron, lidded cooking vessel (use your preferred name here) to put in it, you basically have a slow cooker already. It's likely to be a lot safer to leave powered on for prolonged periods too than some bargain basement supermarket electronics.

For pulled pork/beef, it's already a compromise over doing it in a smoker and realistically the oven version is going to be as good as doing it a slow cooker

https://www.seriouseats.com/easy-oven-pulled-pork-recipe

If you don't have an oven, one of the Ninja multifunctionals would probably be the best option, but clearly a LOT dearer.

My first and so far only slow cooker I got for my 21st birthday. 20+ years later it's still going strong. I don't know where it came from but it's not a recognised brand. Its not the one on the Tesco site: https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/en-IE/products/298468981?srsltid=AfmBOopmOcvmTOjUtSddd_YE2k3L8JkC-yGh0NphNYM4iBp-EHPSClwa

I didn't know multifunction slow cookers were a thing to be honest. Mine has 3 settings, low, high and off.

For 25 euro I say go for it!

I hear it only works with stuff bought with club card

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Yeah I never bothered with the smart plug, though admittedly they had not been invented when I first got the slow cooker, I just dumped everything into it in the morning and set it on low going out to work.

You don't need a slow cooker to make pulled pork.

Then just go and buy the slow cooker. For 25 euros it's a pretty good gamble.

Fair enough. My input as above is, I have a basic slow cooker that is 20-ish years old. Makes good pulled pork. I really dont think you need to go with the multifunction type. In my experience, any kitchen appliance that is multi-function, one of the functions inevitably stops working over time. Then you are left with a multi functioning thing that now only does 2 things well, and have to find another device to do the third thing.

New one on me a pot in the oven

Would it be similar economically to a slow cooker ?

I usually use slow cooker but they've only low med high settings

You are intending to walk away from another electrical appliance that's turned on, one a hell of a lot cheaper than an oven and potentially bought in a supermarket…

Yes.

I would far more trust having a permanently wired oven running at a low temperature, than a counter top device on for the same amount of time.

Your calculations are incredibly wrong. Try a euro or so in total

100c will have the element running at a duty cycle of about 1/6th or less.

My main oven takes about 3kW to maintain the cavity at 300C, although you wouldn't want to as that's when the pyrolitic liner kicks in. That's less than a euro an hour. Bringing an oven to 100C takes significantly less power; and keeping it there even less due to less loss to the surrounding atmosphere than at high temperatures.