Tip
Gravy/sauce
Care And Maintenance
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Cleaning can be made much easier if you immediately remove all the
cooked food from the cooking pot, then fill it with warm water.
Slow cooking retains more of the juices than normal cooking. This tends
to increase the volume of cooking liquid, and thin the sauce or gravy. To
allow for this, sauces should initially be thicker than normal. Anything to
be sautéed could be tossed in seasoned flour beforehand, to thicken the
gravy/sauce.
1. Switch off (O), and unplug the slow cooker (switch the socket off first, if
it's switchable).
2. Using oven gloves, remove the lid and the cookpot and put them on a
heatproof surface.
3. lf you don't intend to wash up right away, fill the cookpot with warm
water, otherwise residual heat may bake food debris on to the cookpot,
making its eventual removal more difficult.
4. Don’t soak the exterior of the cookpot in water. The base is porous, so it
may soak up water, which may then expand, and crack the cookpot
when it’s heated.
5. Wash the lid and cookpot in hot soapy water, using a cloth or sponge,
then rinse and dry thoroughly. Don’t use scouring pads.
6. All other surfaces, internal and external, should be wiped with a damp
cloth. You may use a little washing-up liquid, if necessary.
7. Dry all surfaces thoroughly before re-using the slow cooker or storing it
away.
8. After some time in use, the glaze on the cookpot may develop "crazing",
a network of small cracks. This marking is superficial, and should not be
a cause for concern.
9. You may wash the cookpot and lid in a dishwasher, but we don't recom-
mend this.
