I don't have a slow cooker so I made a slow cooker recipe on the stove?!
Answers: I just turned the stove down to the lowest setting. After about an hour when I checked it the sauce was so tasty and just slightly thinner than what I wanted(corn starch could have been used to thicken it a bit) however the recipe said that it should be cooked for 10 hours in the slow cooker and I really wanted all the tastes to marry and the chicken to be super tender so I left it. After a few hours, the sauce was stuck to the bottom of the pan so I couldn't really stir it without getting the yucky part on the bottom mixed into my gravey and there was not enough gravey just to use what was on top. It was still very good but I would like to try it again and get it perfect. Any suggestions?
There is nothing you can cook in the slow cooker that you can't make on either the top of the cooker or in the oven. Say you wanted to make a stew of some kind? Then all you do is bring it to the boil and turn it down to say medium heat and just let it simmer away, but only for 1-2 hours keeping an eye on it and it will be very tender. You could also do a casserole in the oven, they are lovely too. Same thing. The reason they invented slow cookers was so that you could put the meal on the morning, go out to work and when you came home, it wouldn't be burnt or spoiled. I don't know of any recipes that you can only do in a slow cooker.
buy a slow cooker
You might be better off to do it in the oven, that way the heat gets distributed more evenly than on the stove top where it is more concentrated on the bottom, as you unfortunately found out.
Just keep the oven at a very low temperature 225 to 275F and that should do the trick.
Do the same recipe, but put it in a pan that's lined with foil, and tightly seal foil on top ... Oven bake it at 200 for 9-10 hours. That's how I do pot roast