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here’s how
1 Decide when you want to eat and when you want to start cooking.
2 Find a recipe that suits your timing. If you want to eat at 6 p.m., and you need to
start cooking at 8 a.m., find a recipe that takes about 10 hours.
3 Sit the slow cooker on a stable, level, heat-resistant surface, close to a wall socket
and out of reach of children.
preheating
4 Plug the slow cooker into the wall socket. If necessary, switch the socket on. The
display will show 12:00 – ignore it.
5 Press to change from standby to active. The display will show 4:00 flashing.
6 Press the Mode button to turn the Low light off and the High light on.
7 Press the Start button, and leave the slow cooker to heat up for 20 minutes.
8 The 4:00 will stop flashing, and start to count down.
9 When it shows 3:40, it has heated up, and you can set it up for cooking.
Pressing the Start button locks the other controls. Pressing resets everything,
and puts the cooker into standby . Press again to return the cooker to active .
cooking
When the cooker has heated up, press to reset the cooker and return it to standby .
Press again to return the cooker to active . Now you can set it up for cooking.
set the mode – High/Low
Whichever method you use, ‘one-step’ or ‘browning’, use the Mode button to set the
slow cooker to High or Low – the High or Low light will come on.
Warm mode is not available as a choice, it’s automatic, at the end of the cooking time.
set the time
Press to increase, to decrease the time on the display to the time you want. It
displays whole hours only.
start cooking
Press Start , then leave the slow cooker to get on with it. You can’t change anything
after this. If you’re not happy with the settings, press to stop the slow cooker, then
set it up again.
finished?
Unplug the slow cooker (switch the socket off first, if it’s switchable). Using oven gloves,
remove the lid and set it on a heatproof surface. Remove all the food from the crock
pot, then fill it with warm water.
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.
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