Talk:Slow cooker
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[edit] fire risk
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- A check of Usenet and News articles failed to find one article in which a crockpot started a fire. A minority seem to be frightened that the crockpot will cause a fire when they are not looking. The majority of responses point out that crockpots are designed for long hours of unattended cooking, that they leave appliances on all the time without incident, and that they have never had a problem with their crockpot. Many users report that burning food is nearly impossible as overcooking a stew merely turns it to an edible mush. The most likely source of a fire using a crockpot would be a shorting of the cord (a hazard with any electrical appliance that can be avoided using the right fuses and/or circuit breakers, not keeping mice or animals which chew cords in the kitchen and not testing out knives on said cord).
A proper risk analysis in re fire or other electrical problems would certainly include a review of anecdotal reports as here, but this is insufficient. ANY electrical appliance involving heat producing elements (and even some which do not as some failure modes can start producing heat even when not intended) can cause a fire. Without, in the case of wall current widgets, tripping fuses or circuit breakers. Consider a small (1 watt is sufficient in principle) lightbulb. In open air, it will likely not become too hot to touch. However, if the heat produced in normal operation is not radiated or conducted away sufficiently rapidly, the temperature of that light bulb will easily reach ignition temperatures for nearly all materials rather quickly. Fire risk from electrical sources is a twisty subject and difficult to discuss adequately without considerable context which is hard to include in an article on a cooking appliance.
I trust that explains the edit? ww 20:03, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Name
Would this not be better moved to slow cooker? — Pekinensis 19:23, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
Done. — Pekinensis 23:41, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] used for...?
The description of the device is very thorough. Some instructions are included, the risks involved, and a comparison of the quality of recipes. But what the heck do you use this thing to cook? 59.112.47.44 08:54, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Benefits?
- A slow cooker, also called a Crock-Pot®, is a ... Definition
- Cooking in these appliances is done ... Explaination
- In use, the food is placed inside the pot ... Explaination
- The liquid and its proper level is important, ... Difficulties
- Recipes for these cookers must be adjusted ... Difficulties
- The slow cooker is also known as a Crock Pot, ... Legal and business issues
- The 'Crock Pot' name has been licensed to ConAgra ... Business issues
- Especially for plant materials (eg, vegetables), ... Problems
- Using a slow cooker, temperatures are lower ... Even worse problems
- If the starting food ingredients are frozen, ... Deadly serious problems
- Cooking legumes in a slow cooker at inadequate temperature, ... Life threatening problems
- Perpetual stews should not be maintained in slow cookers, ... Even more problems
- Because these cookers are portable/movable, ... Baby killing problems
Now please tell me, why do people buy slow cookers and why do people manufactur slow cookers? I consulted their official website. I find no such information either. -- Toytoy 17:21, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
- Simple but delicious stew that's ready when you get home from work. Isn't that worth all those issues, difficulties and problems? More seriously, I've added some sentences about this to the intro. Edit at will, of course. FreplySpang 23:06, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
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- A similar list could be prepared for almost any product, especially those involving electricity, heat, large mechanical power, heights, bodies of water lartger than a basin, many pets, or any of a wide variety of foods (eg, mushrooms, especially those collected in the wild). So your list is largely invariant across much of what humans encounter. The slow cooker, sensibly used, is a very useful cooking machine and produces excellent dishes for little time and effort. Only a bit of planning ahead. That's why they're used. ww 01:42, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] missing its debut record
According to familyfun.go.com, the first slow cooker debuted in the early 1970s. But I can't find the exact date yet. --Gh87 06:32, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Contradiction
Statement 1: "The Crock-Pot was invented quite by accident"
Statement 2: "Three men from Sedalia, Missouri, who spent much of their free-time building and racing stock-cars took a cooking crock and thermal conducting wire. They shellacked the wire to the crock, and attached a thermal switch and power cord, thus making the first "CROCK-POT"."
Statements 1 and 2 blatantly contradict each other. Unless you want to tell me that one guy went "WHOOPS! I just tripped and accidentally shellacked this wire to this crock here!" and then the next guy went "Oh crap, my hand just slipped and I soldered a thermal switch to the little bugger!" and then the third guy went "Whoa, I just coughed a power cord onto that thing! Let's call it a Crock-Pot!". JDS2005 08:10, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
