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A General Guide to One Pot Rice or Grain Meal
Ten minutes before the Rice or Brown mode cooking cycle completes (LCD display will
show “
00.1
”), add fish and vegetables on top of your rice/grain or place the fish inside a
ceramic bowl/ dish then place it on top of rice/grain. Let simmer until cooking cycle
completes. You may let your food continue to simmer in the Warm mode for additional
10-15 minutes or until your fish is cooked through.
Note: See the
“VitaClay Cooking Charts for VM7900 & VF7700”
for additional guidance.
Soup Cooking Mode
Your Cooker is a great tool for making your flavorful and nutritious hearty soup or broth as
well as a pot roast! Please refer to the recipe booklet and the
“
VitaClay Cooking Charts
for VM7900 & VF7700
” that came with the Cooker for guidance on ingredient proportions.
The Soup mode allows you to select the amount of cooking time in 30-minute increments,
from 1 to 4 hours.
Remember to always check the cooking process halfway through and make adjustments
accordingly to liquid and cooking time.
Basic Soup Cooking Directions
•
Place your soup ingredients (including water, broth or stock) into the clay pot, stir
and cover with the clay pot lid.
•
Ensure the exterior of the pot is clean and dry.
•
Place covered clay pot into the Cooker on the heating element.
•
Close the Cooker cover. Yo
u will hear a “click” when it snaps shut. Plug cord into a
120-
volt AC/60Hz outlet. The Cooker will beep, and the LCD display will show “---"
•
Press the Soup key on the control panel to select the Soup cooking mode. The LCD
display will show “
02.0
”
as the default cooking time
; which means your soup is
set to cook for 2 hours.
•
You may shorten or lengthen cooking time by pressing the Timer key
within a few
seconds
of selecting the cooking mode. Press the key until the display shows your
desired cooking time.
The timer increases by 30-minute increments from 1 hour
to 4 hours.
A few seconds after the Timer is set, both Soup and Timer lights will
stop flashing and glow red.
•
Once cooking is complete, the Cooker will beep and automatically switch to the
Warm mode,
the Off/Warm Light will glow red and the display will show “
00.0
".
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The Cooker will stay in the Warm mode for up to 12 hours. The timer will the
elapsed time in 10-minute intervals. For example, 30 minutes would be
shown as “00.3”.
•
To end the Warm mode and turn the Cooker off, press the Off/Warm key.
NOTE: You cannot change the cooking time once the Cooker enters the Soup
cooking mode. Simply press the Off/Warm key and start over.