When standing at the stove sounds like the least appealing part of dinner, these 15 slow cooker dishes hand most of the work to one appliance. The lineup covers beef, chicken, pork, soup, casserole, and meatballs, with long, gentle cooking that fits around the rest of the day. Some need a short browning step first, while others go almost straight into the cooker. The payoff is a wide range of dinners that make the stove feel far less necessary.

Honey-Garlic Meatballs in a thick red sauce are being stirred with a wooden spoon in a white ceramic pot.
Slow Cooker Honey-Garlic Meatballs. Photo credit: The Bite Stuff.

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