The art of slow-cooking
Crock
pots are back! Isn’t it nice to know that dinner is
cooking while you’re out doing other things?
After spending a long day building up an appetite at work, at play, or simply enjoying the freshair, nothing beats sitting down to a piping hot, slow-cooked, ready-to-eat savoury crock pot meal!
Your slow-cooker is the most practical cooking
implement in your kitchen. Foods cook slowly in a covered pot; all
the flavour is retained; the heat is indirect so nothing sticks to
the bottom.
Slow-cookers are almost all made the same way: a
removable inner section made of stoneware that can be used as a
serving dish, a metal outer shell, and a tempered glass lid.
- At low heat, 95° C (200° F), foods cook in 8 to 10 hours.
- At high heat, 150° C (300° F), foods cook in 4 to 6 hours.
Because food in a crock pot cooks at a temperature of at least 95° C, there is no danger of bacterial growth. (Bacteria grow at between 4° C and 60° C)