SHINE ON SLOW COOKING
Spring is the time of year when slow cookers are generally put back into storage after along winter of making hearty stews and casseroles, but there are plenty of reasons why a slow cooker such as the Thermal Chef should remain an essenital piece of kit throughout the spring and summer months
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As the days get longer (and looks like sunnier after this glorious weekend!), you might want to spend more time outside rather than cooking dinner. When summer arrives a slow cooker won’t heat up your house the way the oven does and have you sweating indoors! If you’re cooking on a budget, the handy appliances transform tough cuts of meat, which are less expensive but more flavourful. If you’re feeding a crowd, a slow cooker makes large batches of amazingly tasty one pot wonders or takes care of the side dishes, leaving you more oven space. And if you’re looking to live a little greener, a Thermal Chef and slow cooking in general uses a fraction of the energy of a full-size oven.
While long, slow cooking times are most often associated with stews and casseroles, the gentle, moist cooking environment is ideal for all sorts of dishes, and particularly handy when you want to cook lean cuts of meat without adding fat. You can even cook a whole chicken in the slow cooker. It won’t be pretty, nor will it have crisp, golden skin, but it’s impossible to dry it out, and it might just be the juiciest meat you’ve had in along time. Chunks of moist chicken are perfect for sandwiches and wraps, soup, stir-fries, pastas and casseroles-and once you’ve stripped your bird down to the bone, you can simmer the bones in the slow cooker and make some stock like the expert Ernie Willey did here in his article on the Thermal Chef.. http://www.forkncork.com/on-test-thermal-chef-low-energy-cooker/
Brilliant also is the fact that because the Thermal Chef is completely portable (it has a lock down lid), you can prepare your ingredients in the pot, let it cook away while you head off with it in your car to pursue your favorate outdoor actitivy and enjoy a satisfying meal at the end of it. Outdoor Gadget Genius Tom Kelly from the Irish Times is a fan. Check out his article:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/travel/2010/0821/1224277272332.html
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