Slow Cooker

A slow cooker is a countertop electrical cooking appliance that maintains a relatively low temperature (compared to other cooking methods like baking, boiling, and frying) for many hours, allowing unattended cooking of beef stew and other suitable dishes.

A slow cooker consists of a lidded round or oval cooking pot made of glazed ceramic or porcelain, surrounded by a housing, usually metal, containing a thermostatically controlled electric heating element.

The lid is often transparent and is seated in a groove in the pot edge; condensed vapour collects in that groove and provides a low-pressure seal to the atmosphere. Pressure inside a working slow cooker is therefore effectively at atmospheric pressure, despite the water vapor generated inside the pot. A Slow Cooker therefore is substantially different from a Pressure Cooker and presents no danger of an abrupt (perhaps explosive) pressure release.

The long cooking time can be an advantage: food can be set to slow-cook before leaving for a day's work, and will be ready on return; an inexpensive timer can also be used if necessary.

Cooking the meal in a single pot reduces washing up, and the low cooking temperature and glazed pot make cleaning it very easy.

Slow Cookers are less dangerous than ovens or stove tops due to the lower temperatures and closed lids. However, they still contain several pounds/kilograms of near boiling temperature food and liquid, and like any such are capable of causing serious burns if spilled. They are not invariably safe around children and pets as a consequence

In addition, since they contain heating elements, it is possible to cause a fire if slow cookers are misused. For instance, in slow cookers with two heating elements, one heating element can be out of contact with the liquid due to insufficient liquid or food and so cause local overheating, perhaps cracking the ceramic pot or melting or deforming a metal one.
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