There are lots of ways/reasons to cook - for appearance, for health, for workout efficiency, for PC reasons. I like this one: for flavor. I only have about 10,000 dinners in my adult life, I want to make the most of them. Getting 2,000 more by making the other 10,000 taste bad is not in the plan.

Did I say something about tasting bad? Did you reply to wrong comment?

Since we've got too deep and I can't reply. If you're getting anything out of a slow cooker thats raw/hardly cooked then your power must have went out along the way.

There's a huge gulf between tasting ok, and tasting great. Eating raw/hardly cooked vegetables is not the recognized route to fine food.

You missed a reason (my main reason): for cost while maintaining adequate quality.

While food is like sex (even when its bad, its good) I don't like to skimp on money there.