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GENERAL USE
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Decide when you want to eat and when you want to start cooking.
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Find a recipe that suits your timings. If you want to eat at 6pm and you need to start
cooking at 8am, find a recipe that takes about 10 hours.
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Prepare the food as described in the recipe.
TIP: Cut food into similar sized pieces to ensure food is evenly cooked.
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Sit the slow cooker on a stable, level, heat-resistant surface and out of reach of children.
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Connect to the wall power outlet and switch the outlet on.
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Turn the switch on the slow cooker to High setting and allow to preheat for 20 minutes.
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Remove the lid and place the food in the ceramic bowl.
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Replace the lid.
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Turn the switch on the slow cooker to the required setting for cooking (Low, High or Auto).
NOTE: A recipe that takes 10 hours would only ever be cooked using Low setting.
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At the end of the cooking time, turn the switch to Off.
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Using oven gloves remove the lid from the slow cooker and set it on a heat proof surface.
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Serve the food.
TIP: Cleaning can be made much easier if you remove all the cooked food from the
ceramic bowl, then fill it with warm water (see 'Care and Maintenance').
GRAVY / SAUCE
Slow cooking retains more of the juices than normal cooking. This tends to increase the volume of
cooking liquid and thin the sauce or gravy. To allow for this, sauces should initially be thicker than
normal. Anything to be sautéed could be tossed in seasoned flour beforehand, to thicken the gravy/
sauce.
RECIPES
There are a few recipes in this book to get you started.
Use them initially to familiarise yourself with the capabilities of your slow cooker. Then using them as
a guide, vary the ingredients, vary the quantities and taste the results. Keep notes, write down what
changes you make, and you will quickly build up a range of recipes which suit your taste. Keep notes
of the not so successful ones as well, so that you know what not to do next time.
To adapt your own recipes for the slow cooker, we suggest you find a recipe which uses similar
ingredients and use that as a guide for timing and liquid quantity, along with the food preparation
guidelines given earlier. Be careful with quantities – once all the initial ingredients are put in the ceramic
bowl, it shouldn't be more than ¾ full, to allow for expansion.
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