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Question by upallniteowl: Crock pot recipe for splt pea soup?
I would like to make a smooth and creamy split pea soup in my crock pot. Does anyone have a great recipe that they have tried? Thanks!

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im a baker more than a crock potter,but i love pea soup,can i come over for dinner?try recipe.com

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The Best Slow Cooker - Cook An Entire Meal With One Appliance

The slow cooker. What a wonderful product. There is no denying the fact that this appliance has revolutionized the cooking experience. It facilitates multi-tasking and therefore makes the daily chores of life a whole lot easier for working mothers, stay-at-home-mothers, and housewives in general.

So, what is the slow cooker? The slow cooker, also referred to as a crock- pot, is a small electric cooking appliance that cooks while maintaining a low temperature compared to other cooking methods. Because of this low temperature, the slow cooker allows you to leave your cooking unattended for many hours.

The slow cooker was developed by the Naxon Utilities Corporation of Chicago. It was introduced as the Naxon Beanery All-Purpose Cooker. In 1970, Naxon Utilities Corporation was purchased by the Rival Company. In 1971, Rival reintroduced the slow cooker under the name Crock-Pot, and introduced removable stoneware inserts in 1974. The brand is now owned by Sunbeam Products. Presently, there are several other brands of the slow cooker including Hamilton Beach, West Bend Housewares, and Magic Chef.

The slow cooker consists of a round or oval cooking pot with a lid. The cooking pot is made of glazed ceramic or porcelain and is surrounded by a housing which contains an electric heating element. The lid, which is mainly of transparent glass, is seated in a groove in the edge of the pot. The condensed vapor that is trapped in the groove of the pot edge provides a low-pressure seal to the atmosphere. When a slow cooker is in use, the pressure inside is at atmospheric pressure, despite the water vapor generated inside the pot. It is for this reason that a slow cooker is much different from a pressure cooker. With the slow cooker, there is no danger from a sudden pressure release.

The majority of slow cookers have two or more temperature settings and sometimes a "keep warm" setting. A typical slow cooker is designed to heat food to 170o F (77o C) on low, to perhaps 190-200o F (88-93oC) on high.

Recently, there was another upgrade to the slow cooker. This upgrade, in my opinion, qualifies this appliance to be called the best slow cooker. This improved slow cooker was introduced by the Slow Cooker Mate company and the appliance is called the Slow Cooker Mate. With this appliance, you can cook a meal in one pot and take your cooking to a whole new level while making a complete meal in one slow cooker.

The Best Slow Cooker is an innovative three chamber slow cooker that allows you to cook an entire meal with one appliance. The large capacity base crock is removable for easy serving and clean-up. The unique stoneware divided insert, which is found only in The Best Slow Cooker, allows you to cook two more items at the same time. You can cook vegetables, warm dips or sauces and much more. Both stoneware crocks are microwave and dishwasher safe. The lid is also dishwasher safe. The Best Slow Cooker is ideal for the chef in the house who is already short of time.

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Hamilton Beach Slow Cooker - What's On Your Countertop?

Hamilton Beach Slow Cookers take slow cooking to a whole new level, thanks to a bit of great thinking. Certain models for instance like the Hamilton Beach Stay Go Slow Cooker, take on all of your greatest issues -- moving the food to a picnic or even family get-together while avoiding awful spillovers . If you going to use slow cookers in your kitchen, you're going to be happy by the attractive appearance, easy-to-use controls and no sweat dishwasher cleanup of the Hamilton Beach Slow Cookers.

Slow Cookers are a great appliance to have on any countertop; they really do all of the baking even while you are not at home. Imagine, placing your meal of choice into the crock pot, leaves the house, & coming home to a wonderful aroma of a mouth watering family brunch.

In the past few years slow cooking has increased in popularity, and it's easy to see why. Who out there would not want a spectacular home cooked dinner that almost cooks itself? After you add the ingredients to the slow cooker, there's not much, if any, supervision needed. Also, quite a few of the most satisfying meals are definitely easy to make, only half a day of slowly cooking some wonderfully mixed ingredients & roasted herbs, and you will have a simple and very tasty lunch.

Crock Pots can even save you money in many ways. Something you might not know, in reality it takes less energy to use a slow cooker when comparing it to a gas or electric oven. It does not heat up your kitchen like baking will. Hamilton Beach Slow Cookers are a wonderful course of action to prepare dirt-cheap, types of beef. Nearly all of the heat given off by your cooker makes these lean types of beef more tender compared to alternative cooking processes. Nonetheless, a slow cooker is not only restricted to meats. Other foods include soups, side dishes, which can be cooked with just a little bit homework, a crock pot can assist you in preparing different types of launches, with less power consumed which in turn can help you save some dough.

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KitchenAid 6.2-qt. Chicken Fryer - Indigo (12")

• Show Off Your Cooking Prowess with this Fryer From KitchenAid
• Great for Oven or Stovetop Use
• Made of Cast Iron Porcelain Enamel Finish
• Cook-and-Serve Design, Heavy-Weight Construction
• Uniform Heat Distribution
• Stainless Steel Handle
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Tall ribs in the bottom of this vessel perform double duty holding foods above the fat when grilling and allowing oil to circulate around foods when deep frying. The self–basting cover holds in spatter and moisture keeping the stove clean and foods tender.

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Cuisinart Griddler Panini and Sandwich Press

When it comes to eating sensibly, doing what's right can often feel like riding a roller coaster. Food fads change more frequently than fashion or haircuts it seems. There was the food pyramid. There was the approach of,'avoid fats at all costs but eat all the carbs you want'. There has been,'eat anything you need as long as it is not carbohydrates'. The differentiations and tweaks on these themes and plenty more, can have your head spinning if you try and keep up with it all. We all want to have the very best health for ourselves and our families that we will be able to. to best achieve that it is critical to grasp what forms of foods you should eat, and what forms of foods you should avoid. With that noted as take a look at where nuts stand in today's nutritional picture.

For many adults we can remember when nuts were considered a sensible healthy food or snack. Luckily we have spotted that the idea of avoiding nuts is just that... Nuts can be grouped in the same food group as neat because, like meat they contain a large amount of protein. One advantage that nuts have over meat is they also contain fiber ; something that is essential for a healthy digestive tract which is not contained in beef. And while fiber and a healthy digestive tract is critical for everyone, folk who eat a lot of meat particularly need to make sure that they get lots of fiber in their diet.
In addition to the advantages of fiber, many nuts also contain a good supply of vitamin E. Vitamin E is a forceful antioxidant that may help defend your body's cells from every day damage.
For example, studies suggest that eating almonds may help lower not just the LDL cholesterol ( which is the bad sort of cholesterol that you need lowered ), but it can help lower total cholesterol as well .
Because nuts have a{ fatty high fat| high-fat content they have high satiety. This implies they do it good job at filling you up and keeping you from being excessively hungry. The key is portion control however. Keeping your nut intake to about 1 oz., three to 4 times per week is a good standard.

Knowing that nuts are good for you will help you assimilate them into your diet and into your overall plan for healthy eating. Talking of which... I latterly needed to get some new Rival crock pot parts after losing the lid to one of ours.

My other fave quick, healthy food secret weapon in the kitchen is the Cuisinart GR 1 Griddler Panini and Sandwich Press. If you love the taste of fresh grilled sandwiches but hate paying deli prics and without knowing precisely what is going on into your meal, you gotta check this small beauty out for yourself! You'll be an expert Panini Griller in no time!

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