Stock Pot Basics (Do’s and Do-Nots)
CLAY
POT
CARE
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:
1.
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.
2.
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.
To achieve the optimum cooking results, we
recommend to a
full pot
cooking on “
Fast
” up to 2 hours, on
“
Slow
” up to 3 hours, bone broth for up to 9.5 hours. Clay
creates more gel than any other metal pot or glazed pot. For
more gel and collagens in bone broth, continue to let it sit in
WARM for additional 8-9 hours. “
3.
ALWAYS
cook with liquid present at least 2-3 cups (US cup)
in the pot.
At the first-time cooking
, for longer than an hour of
cooking time, please
CHECK
your liquid levels half way 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.