Ha! Thanks BG, I was kind of hoping you'd reply. I like mince to be broken up properly too, but haven't done anything in the sc with mince yet, so didn't think of mince.

The stew (well, I'm hoping its a stew, it may get a name change depending on how it turns out) I'm doing today has four cups of water in it, which is just to the top of everything in the cooker. I suspect it may be a bit much though. Actually.... no maybe not. On the stove I think I put about that much water in too (to just cover). I have just turned it up to high, so its done three hours on auto (which I think gets it up to temp then goes to low).

I have looked at the jsc website, they have sooo many recipes, I get a bit sidetracked.