Turbo Cooker vs. Slow Cooker
What is a Slow Cooker?
A slow cookers electrical base creates heat that transfers to the inner ceramic cooking vessel and rises across the bottom and up the sides, uniformly cooking your food.
A slow cooker lets you just throw some ingredients in the pot, set the temperature, and go about your day. Your roast,chicken chili or stew will be waiting for you later.
How a Turbo Cooker compares:
- - It is the slow cookers ceramic vessel that uniformly cooks food. A Turbo Cooker™ works by using low pressure and circulating steam which cooks more uniformly and ambiently.
- - In a slow cooker you need to wait for the liquid to heat up and the cooking process takes hours – neither need to be considered in a Turbo™.
- - In a slow cooker you cannot brown.
- - In a slow cooker all flavors combine but, in a Turbo Cooker™ you can blend the flavors as well as keep them separate.
- - You can cook for example steak in the base with a cream sauce and on the steam rack a medley of vegetables and there is no flavor transfer – impossible in a slow cooker.
- - You can bake a cake on the steam rack and chicken in the base, impossible to do in a slow cooker.
- - You can reheat a meal in a Turbo Cooker™ impossible to do in a slow cooker.
In an slow cooker you would roast a chicken in the Turbo you SteamRoast™ it. o Stew versus SteamStew™
What can’t a Turbo do better?
From a cooking perspective there is nothing a slow cooker can do better than a Turbo™.
The one advantage a slow cooker provides is you can let it cook unattended for hours.
Slow Cooker Explained
Basic Features
A slow cooker is most like a Dutch oven, which when heated on a stovetop heats from the bottom and then rises up the sides of the pot to heat the food within.
A slow cooker creates heat toward the base, which transfers up the sides of the vessel to heat the food within.
Pressure Cookers are good at cooking:
Slow Cooker are good at:
- • Slow cookers are great for cooking cheaper cuts like beef brisket, pork shoulder, lamb shoulder and chicken thighs.
- •You can also use less meat, as slow cooking really extracts a meaty flavour that permeates the whole dish.
- • Bulk up with vegetables instead.
Cooking Advantages
Slow cookers are great for cooking unattended meals for long periods of time at relatively low cooking temperatures..
Available Upgrades
Some slow cookers feature only a manual dial that allows you to set the appliance to low, medium, or high. Some models come with a timer built in, others with programmable controls.
So you can set the timer so the slow cooker turns off at a specific time.
Other upgrades include a “keep warm” setting as well, so your food won’t be cold if you get home after it has stopped cooking.
Issues
It is recommended that you preheat 20 minutes, by which that time the Turbo™ is already done cooking. Do not lift the lid to check on your meal, heat will escape and slow down the cooking time.
Dairy products usually break down in a slow cooker, do it in the last 15 minutes and lean meats such as pork tenderloin can dry out. ”
What is SteamCooking™
SteamCooking™ is the cooking technology/cooking technique that was developed in conjunction with Turbo Cooking. SteamCooking™ is the simultaneous combination of traditional cooking techniques incorporated with the use of steam.
