Making Seitan in a Slow-Cooker: Good Idea or Bad?

[pretend_mulling]

I ask because I have a small, 2-qt slow-cooker, a lot of vital wheat gluten, and a metric ton of homework (yay, last two and a half weeks of the semester! /sarcasm), so I really only have about thirty minutes in which to mix up the seitan and cook it. I've used my slow-cooker to make other meals, usually chili or soups, and I usually have a problem

Comments

[supercarrot]

it's an awesome idea! i make my holiday loaf in my big oval slow cooker every year! (the bryanna's soy + seitan loaf. it's here in the tags)

it just needs to simmer, and that's what the slow cooker does best. perfect for the summer, cause it's less hot than the stove. and you can walk away.

[kokoronagomu]

you can even run a cord outside and cook it there so it doesn't even heat up the house at all. i do that all the time in the summer.

[spaceprostitute]

If it helps, googling "seitan in a slow cooker" would seem to indicate many others before you have both tried it an blogged about it. So, yup...should work.,

[amorsalado]

Ayup. That's pretty much the only way I do it anymore.