Advice please on Slow Cookers

I love my slow cooker, though I suppose I often use it for meat based recipes.
It is on now, cooking a piece of gammon.
When that is done, I shall put it on overnight with tomatoes, basil, onions, garlic and a few other ingredients to make pasta sauce to freeze.
Also cook Christmas puddings in it.

Do get one. Cheapish to buy, cheap to run, lots of uses.

I'm vegan and use the slow cooker a lot. Soups, stews, puddings, fruit compote etc. are all easily done.

Veg has to be cut up smaller than usual as it doesn't soften so much during cooking. Very little water (if any) is needed.

Slow cookers are cheap to buy and economical to run. The food won't dry out or burn if it's left an extra half hour or so. There are loads of recipes online.

What I love about slow cooking is getting most of the food preparation done in the morning, or at lunchtime, then it looks after itself until it's ready, in the evening, when needed.

My vegan son loves his slow cooker. He makes chilli and curry a lot.
Depends what sort of dishes you like to cook?
Personally I find my wok with a lid the most useful cooking item, I use that for bolognese, chilli and curry as well as stir fries.

I find that that slow cookers work better with meat than veg, but I do recommend an Instant Pot. They combine a slow cooker with an electric pressure cooker, and are really useful. I do lots of veggie things in mine.

There are a lot of vegetarian slow cooker recipes you can google. I love my slow cooker. I have found that rice dishes don't tend to come out so well (the rice goes a bit mushy) so I avoid those.

Definitely get one - there are literally hundreds of super easy and super tasty recipes online now, many without meat. I've had my slow cooker for ten years and wouldn't be without it now x

Christmas puddings without all the steam.

(Sorry!).

Typos ?

My kitchen was ripped out just be ire lockdown do I've spent six months with nothing except a slow cooker and a microwave. ?

You can do anything in a sliw cooker! Pasta, sponge pudding, cauliflower cheese, frittata, risotto. You name it.

I may never use that thousand pound oven they've just put in.

I've made meat based curries and casseroles, vegetarian curries and casseroles, soups, rice puddings etc. I've also used it to keep food warm, such as baked potatoes and veg. I've had one for many years and wouldn't be without now.