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Which Utensils Are the Most Reliable? - Kitchen Cooking Utensils
Written by Veronica Carrillo   
Wednesday, 13 January 2010 08:26
Is your crock-pot sitting hidden inside one of your cabinets? It's time to take it out! A crock-pot, or slow cooker, is an efficient, energy-saving, and time-saving little (or big!) item. It can really reduce stress in the kitchen. It also allows you to easily serve home-cooked, healthy meals to your family. I'm a mother just like you, and honestly, it's hard to get home cooked food on the table every day. Life is just hectic and there are so many responsibilities for us as moms. Sometimes I'm just tired - and by the time 5:30pm rolls around I certainly don't want to cook. This can result in our families eating fast food, or processed convenience foods much more often than we'd like to. This costs a lot of money - and it costs the health of the family.
by VeronicaCarrillo


Is your crock-pot sitting hidden inside one of your cabinets? It's time to take it out! A crock-pot, or slow cooker, is an efficient, energy-saving, and time-saving little (or big!) item. It can really reduce stress in the kitchen. It also allows you to easily serve home-cooked, healthy meals to your family. I'm a mother just like you, and honestly, it's hard to get home cooked food on the table every day. Life is just hectic and there are so many responsibilities for us as moms. Sometimes I'm just tired - and by the time 5:30pm rolls around I certainly don't want to cook. This can result in our families eating fast food, or processed convenience foods much more often than we'd like to. This costs a lot of money - and it costs the health of the family.

The crock-pot is a perfect solution to this problem. Pull yours out of the cabinet (once you've started using it you may realize you want a couple of them, I can have a 3-course meal going in the crock-pot for my family of 6!) All you need to do to get your slow cooker ready to go is a good recipe (you can find tons of great ones online). Then you get your meat and vegetables ready, throw them into the crock-pot, add spices and liquids and you're done. You put the crock on the setting the recipe instructs and then you can literally forget it. Go about your day and don't worry about supper-time. Your meal will be ready when you are!

If your hob or hotplate has front and back burners or elements then always use the back ones when you can and turn the saucepan handles away from the front. This prevents children, pets or yourself from getting burned by brushing against or knocking over a hot cooking utensil. Never leave hot items like spoons or ladles near the edge of the work surface where a child or pet could reach them.

The innovations found in today's cookers are born directly from customer experience over the years. Stoneware inserts are removable for cleaning. Temperature controls allow for a broad range of cooking methods, and programmable features let you control the settings as your dish cooks. Some even include a probe which is inserted into the meal, to monitor the progress of recipes that require the food to reach a certain temperature.

You can get a new crock-pot at almost any store. The variety of colors and sizes is wonderful, so you can find the perfect fit for your kitchen. The simplest models offer a dial to choose from "low" or "high." I highly recommend you get a slightly nicer model that offers a "warm" option as well - it comes in handy. You can also get digital, programmable crock-pots, which can be especially good if you're a busy working mother and need to get out the door early.

You won't want to save your slow cooker for annual potluck dinners once you discover all the luscious recipes that you can make with your cooker. Everything from a hot breakfast to a hot toddy can be made in a slow cooker.

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