I love when I can simplify a recipe and use my slow cooker. I let it do all the cooking for me. I've made this recipe countless times. I prefer to cook the black eyed peas in the slow cooker instead of the stove top!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhen I would cook them on the stove top I found that I couldn't leave my house to run errands (of course minimal errand running is normally done on New Years day). I also had the issue that the water would dry up or I would have beans burnt on the bottom of the pot.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOne day I got the hair brain idea to try cooking my black eye peas in the u003ca href=u0022https://amzn.to/35hmRxou0022 target=u0022_blanku0022 rel=u0022noreferrer noopeneru0022u003eslow cookeru003c/au003e. And boy did it work... it worked like a gem and now I won't cook them any other way! This is now the only way I ever cook black eyed peas!