Saturday, July 24, 2010

Give Your Family Great Tasting Meals With Programmable Crock Pots While You Save Time And Money

By Emily Branklee

They might look the same as they always have, but crock pots have really changed.

Home cooked meals are one of life's simple pleasures that are the ultimate comfort food. They are often really hard to put together because of the time involved. Do you have the time to cook everyday?

It is really hard to keep up with everyone's schedule and keep enough for everyone to eat, especially when there are meals to prepare. Crock pots and slow cookers are still an easy way to make dinners and lunches for your family and friends. Today, they have many improvements that make them even easier than ever to use for saving you time and money.

Today's health findings have shown that food should be cooked faster than it used to be in older crock pots. You don't want to have food cooking for 6 to 8 hours at low temperatures anymore. Vegetables and meats keep their flavor better if cooked faster at a higher temperature.

Most crock pots come with programmable timers making sure that the roasts, stews or BBQ's they are preparing are kept at a higher temperature for a shorter period of time. These timers can be set to allow for different cooking times depending on the food being cooked. This really adds to their convenience.

The old standby and the first crock pot Rival is still available along with all the new models. New programmable crock pots can be had in sizes ranging from mini slow cookers to crock pots capable of cooking a large turkey for Thanksgiving to super small, mini crock pots.

Here are some ways of using a crock pot to save time and money:

- Crock pots use less electricity than conventional ovens and need no gas.

- They shed no heat so your kitchen does not heat up during hot days.

- You save valuable time and energy not having to cook before dinner.

- Cheaper cuts of meat, tenderized by long, slow cooking, saves you money.

- Cooking slowing in its own juices, food retains its best flavors.

- Water is saved because steam is generated during crock pot cooking.

- Very easy setup, just add meat, vegetables and spices, liquids and set time and temperature and let the machine do all the work.

- Even after hours of cooking your meal will still remain moist.

- After the meal is finished, there is only one pot to clean.

- You can feed a big family or a large party with one crock pot.

Programmable crock pots are the easy alternative to making simple meals for the entire family everyday or your next dinner party. It's flexibility allows you to make easy work of dinners and lunches with lots of time left over for other things. Saving money and time is what makes these versatile cookers still popular after years in the kitchen. You can make anything you want.

Give it a try. There is a reason The crock pot is still popular.

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