Healthy Cooking Appliances

[LF365]

I was doing some looking around and thought I'd share. Steaming and slow cooking at lower temperatures seem to be the healthiest cooking methods. These appliances seem to be the best looking with the best features. The prices aren't bad either. I own a Breville juicer and their quality is top notch. I like the programmable temperature control on the HB slow cooker, and probably the one I'll buy. Does anyone have any slow cooker recipes or slow cooking cook books to recommend?

http://www.brevilleusa.com/products/bfs600xl/index.jsp?sku=bfs600xl&cID=110&pID=62&pvID=62

http://www.hamiltonbeach.com/slow-cookers-programmable-slow-cookers.html

[Realety]

You can cook anything and everything in a slow cooker. I love making stews in it especially since you can take a really "bad" peice of meat, that is tough or grissley, and when it cooks all day long all the fat and grissle cooks out and makes it nice and tender so that it just melts. So any meat does well. I've even put whole chickens in them and they've turned out great. a simple method I use is to have the meat cook all day long with a little water added (not too much because a lot of juice will come off the meat) and then when I get home, chop up some veggies, lightly sweat them in a pan with a little olive oil to flavor until the veggies soften and become translucent. and toss them in with the meat to let that all meld for about an hour.      some key points are, if you are doing this with a whole chicken or something else with a lot of small bones, you will want to remove them the best you can. and remember to sweat the veggies requires very low heat.        One other point, you don't have to have a super-duper programable slow cooker, you can do just as good a job with one that's 20 bucks as you can with one that's 100.

[LF365]

Thanks.

The reason why I choose the HB is that it will allow me to get it to the exact temperature for the cooking time that I need. I also like the fact that I know what temperature it cooks at. I can get it to a very low temperature for a longer cooking time.  A slow cooker doesn't brown foods but that is fine for me since that is one thing I'm trying to avoid.

I think what I will do is cook the main meal in the slow cooker all day on the lowest temperature I can. By that time the slow cooker will have automatically lowered down keeping the meal warm. When I get home I'll start off with a raw salad. While eating the salad I'll use the steamer and lightly steam vegetables and brown rice. When I'm done with the salad the rest of my courses will be ready to eat.

I'm getting hungry just thinking about it.