Tiana and you cooked together a lot, before The Forgetting. She thinks the Slow Cooker crafting recipe she found was from that time.

This could be a nice time saver. You can load it with enough ingredients to make several of the same meal, start it and just let it do its’ thing. It works slow and steady, so it does take a while to finish the meals. But you can be doing other things while it’s working, which can come in very handy when you have a lot to do and not so much time.

Quest Task: Talk to Tiana.

Check to see if you have everything you need to craft the Slow Cooker. If you are missing anything, here is where to find it.

Iron Ingot

• Crafted from Iron Ore and Coal Ore
• Crafted from Wrought Iron (obtained in Remy’s Bon Appetit quests)
• Buy at Kristoff’s Stall for 150 Star Coins (appears randomly)

Tinkering Parts – Crafted from Iron Ingot

Hardwood

• Found on the Ground in Glade of Trust, Sunlit Plateau, Forest of Valor, Frosted Heights
• Dig up Tree Stumps
• Buy at Kristoff’s Stall for 10 Star Coins (appears randomly)

Dreamlight

• Crafted from Dream Shards
• Complete Dreamlight Duties and various other Dreamlight Valley related Duties in the Dreamlight menu

Quest Task: Gather the materials needed to craft a Slow Cooker:

• Iron Ingot – 6
• Tinkering Parts – 2
• Hardwood – 20
• Dreamlight 2500

Head to your favorite crafting station. The recipe is found under Functional Items.

Quest Task: Craft a Slow Cooker – 1.

Tiana wants you to try out the new Slow Cooker by making some Gumbo. If you don’t have all the ingredients in Inventory, here is where to find them.

Okra

• Sold: Goofy’s Stall – Glade of Trust (appears randomly)
• Cost: 171 Star Coins
• Seeds Sold: Goofy’s Stall – Glade of Trust
• Seed Cost: 135 Star Coins
• Time to Grow: 2 hrs.
• Yield: 3

Shrimp

• Fish Locations: Dazzle Beach
• Circle Color: Blue and sometimes white

Chili Pepper

• Sold: Goofy’s Stall – Sunlit Plateau (appears randomly)
• Cost: 117 Star Coins
• Seeds Sold: Goofy’s Stall – Sunlit Plateau & Goofy’s Eternity Isle Stall – The Plains
• Seed Cost: 20 Star Coins
• Time to Grow: 45 min.
• Yield: 1

Tomato

• Sold: Goofy’s Stall – Dazzle Beach (appears randomly)
• Cost: 33 Star Coins
• Seeds Sold: Goofy’s Stall – Dazzle Beach & Goofy’s Eternity Isle Stall – The Grasslands
• Seed Cost: 8 Star Coins
• Time to Grow: 25 min.
• Yield: 3

Onion

• Sold: Goofy’s Stall – Forest of Valor (appears randomly)
• Cost: 255 Star Coins
• Seeds Sold: Goofy’s Stall – Forest of Valor
• Seed Cost: 50 Star Coins
• Time to Grow: 1 hr. 15 min.
• Yield: 1

Pro Tip: Tiana gives you the Gumbo recipe at the start of this quest. You’ll find it in your Backpack Inventory.

Place the completed Slow Cooker somewhere in the Valley. It can actually be placed inside or outside your house. However, to complete the quest task you need to place it outside for now.

Quest Task: Place your Slow Cooker in the Valley – 1.

As soon as you set the Slow Cooker down outside, a tutorial will pop up giving you some pointers on how to use it.

Tutorial Time: Slow Cooker.

Head to your Slow Cooker and try it out.

• Click “use” to get started. The Slow Cooker Menu will appear.
• Highlight and click “Select Ingredients”. This will take you to the regular Cooking Station Ingredients Selection screen.
• Place the ingredients in the Slow Cooker or select a recipe and use autofill, just like you would at any cooking station.
• Click “Start Cooking” and you will go back into the Slow Cooker Menu.

In the Slow Cooker Menu:

• Click the “Cook” button in the upper right box.
• A small popup appears allowing you to select the number of meals you want to make. You can make up to 30 meals at once. Beware: Each meal costs 25 Dreamlight.
• Click the button at the bottom of the “How Many?” popup box to add the Dreamlight required.
• The meals move into the box in the lower left side of the Slow Cooker menu and the Slow Cooker will begin cooking, slow and steady.

When the meals are done, the Slow Cooker will sparkle. But until that happens, just go about your business and return later.

Quest Task: Cook Gumbo with your Slow Cooker – 3.

Pro Tip: Keep an eye on your coal supply, which is shown on the top left of the Slow Cooker’s Menu. Each meal you make does take 1 Coal Ore, so you need to have enough Coal Ore for the number of meals you want to make. If you’re short, it will limit your meal count to just the amount of coal you have left.

Take the completed meals to Tiana.

She is extremely pleased with the Gumbo. The Slow Cooker did a great job. With this new appliance, you now have a great way to batch cook anything you like!

Quest Task: Collect your meals from the Slow Cooker – 3.

• It will take some time for the Slow Cooker to finish!

Quest Task: Talk to Tiana about your Slow Cooker.

Yes indeed! For all of us who purchased A Rift in Time DLC, the Slow Cooker is clearly a modernized version of the Advanced Ancient Cooker that you can build on your Timebending Tables. The only real difference is that the Slow Cooker consumes Dreamlight (25 per meal) while the Advanced Ancient Cooker uses 25 Mist per meal.

While the two machines work almost exactly the same way, there is a big difference in the amount of time it takes to cook a meal. One of our tests, cooking 3 Grilled Veggie Platters using 3 pumpkins, took 3 minutes using the Advanced Ancient Cooker. The exact same 3 meals, also using 3 pumpkins, took 15 minutes with the Slow Cooker. There is definitely a reason they called it slow and steady!

It’s also noteworthy, that you only need to craft 1 Slow Cooker to be able to make up to 30 meals in a batch. The Ancient Machines come in three sizes, which can be nice. But you need to upgrade from the Basic to Intermediate, and again to the Advanced model before you reach the version that has a 30-meal capacity. This takes a lot of resources.

Still, it’s nice to have options. If you have lots of Mist, use your Ancient Cookers. If your supply of Dreamlight is of no concern and you have time to let it simmer, the Slow Cooker makes a great addition to your kitchen!

Happy Cooking!

Open Aladdin’s Realm and check out Jasmine’s quest: The Ancient Revealed. Or venture to The Storybook Vale for Merida’s Quest: Welcome to The Storybook Vale.