Telstar TCL002110MD, Manual

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SLOW COOKER
TCL002110MD
13. The light will come on, and cooking will start.
FINISHED?
14.
When the cooking time is over:
A) if you want to serve the food right away, turn the control to 0, unplug the slow cooker (switch the socket
off first, if it’s switchable)
B) if you’re not ready to serve, turn the control to warm, to keep the food warm till you’re ready to serve
SERVING
15.
Check that the slow cooker is off – turn the control to 0.
16. Using oven gloves, remove the lid, and put it on a heatproof surface.
17. It’s best to ladle the food from the slow cooker into serving dishes or plates. 30 Don’t carry the slow cooker,
the trailing cable may catch on something.
18. You may use oven gloves to lift the cookpot, complete with the lid, but it’s hot and it’s heavy – so take care.
19. You’ll find that cleaning the cookpot is much easier if you remove all the food as soon as it’s cooked, then
fill the cookpot with warm water.
TIP
Cleaning can be made much easier if you immediately remove all the cooked food from the cooking pot,
then fill it with warm water.
GRAVY/SAUCE
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.
CARE AND MAINTENANCE
1
Switch off (0), 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 If 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.