Slow Cooker

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Slow Cooker

Slow Cookers or Crock Pots© have developed a new popularity since the early 1980s, with busy families away from home all day in developed countries. The pot is loaded in the morning and may be left unattended all day, if set to cook on "Low," with the heat being provided from the sides, providing a delicious meal that evening on their return.
The simplest have a simple on and off switch, the most sophisticated a digital programmable thermostatic control. The usual models have a Low setting and a High setting.
Their greatest utility is in making tender the most tough grades of meats.
The variety of recipes is only limited by the size of the imagination; soups, vegetable, stews,...even throw in a pile of hot dogs and an hour or two later, they're delicious!
Our grandmothers' stoves had a recessed cooking position, often in the right rear, in which a pot would be set, and had a similar function.

See category below for Slow cooker recipes.