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Caring for your Clay Pot
Unglazed natural clay promotes health by preserving all essential nutrients and vitamins in your foods. It
creates excellent texture and intensifies flavors of food. In order to preserve the quality and lifespan of
your clay pot, here are a few helpful tips and instructions to follow:
•
ALWAYS
avoid temperature shock: never add frozen items to a very hot pot or place a hot pot on a
cold, marble counter or directly into the refrigerator. Use a cloth trivet for the counter and allow to
cool down before placing in the refrigerator. Do NOT place the clay pot in the freezer. Similarly, Do
NOT add boiling water to a very cold pot (out of the refrigerator). Allow the pot to normalize to room
temperature before adding very hot or very cold items.
•
DO use your 2-in-
1 Rice n’ Slow Cooker with adequate water-based liquids.
Be sure that
water-based liquids are always present in the clay pot during cooking to prevent the pot from
becoming too dry and overheated.
ALWAYS
cook with liquid present at least 2-3 cups (US cup) in
the pot.
•
For first-time cooking use
that is longer than an hour, please
CHECK
your liquid levels
halfway of cooking time to see if liquid is running low, add same temperature or room-
temperature liquid as needed. If the liquid is almost gone, turn the machine off and allow it
to cool down before adding more liquid and resume the cooking cycle. Use the
Cooking
Chart
for the first-time cooking and reduce or add liquid amount as needed thereafter.
•
If the liquid complet
ely evaporates the clay pot will begin “dry heating”, immediately unplug
the power cord, allowing the Cooker to cool down naturally. During cooling, DO NOT add
water or remove your pot from the Cooker base.
•
DO NOT cook easy to burn foods
like milk, cheese, tomatoes, roll-cut and quick oatmeal
without enough liquid or for too long. Use the proper settings, see the
Cooking Chart
for
details.
•
The clay or stoneware parts are designed for cooking with the provided Cooker base ONLY. DO
NOT heat them on stove top or oven.
NEVER use the pot for frying, braising, browning or deep
oil frying.
•
Avoid sudden temperature changes. DO NOT add cold water to heated pot.
DO place hot pot on a
fabric or cotton potholder or dry cloth
. DO NOT put hot pot on a cold counter or any cold
surface including the sink.
•
When your meal has just finished cooking, the Cooker will still be hot, DO NOT place clay parts in
water or on cold surface. This can SHOCK the pot to the pot and may cause it to crack.
•
The clay pot is fragile. Be careful when carrying or storing. Do NOT start cooking function while the
clay pot is empty. Dry heat can cause the pot to crack or break. Always have some liquid present in
the clay pot when the cooking cycle begins. Please handle with care. DO NOT hit it on hard surface
or drop, as it may break.
•
Be sure that the
outside of the pot is dry before placing inside the housing
to cook. If liquids
have been soaking in the clay pot for a very long time, a leak could occur. Use a dry towel to dry
the outside surface of the inner clay pot.