Slow cookers seem like an easy way to cook a meal if you are prepared to wait the 8 hours or so for the meal to cook.
Can you simply put all the ingredients, including onion, for something like bolognese in a slow cooker and expect it cook properly? Will the onion soften like it does when fried with oil?
Best Answer
With regard to your comment, "what can you cook in a slow cooker", I cook almost everything in the slow cooker!
With regard to onions, I suggest that you precook the onions so that they obtain the texture that you want and then add them to the slow cooker. For example, when I cook stew, I caramelise the onions before placing them in the slow cooker, for the cooking temperature is too low for Maillard reactions.