Warning! Crockpot "warm" setting!

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On Feb 15, 12:34?am, Omelet wrote:


Poor Ommie!

The cookbook I have from the dawn of that era, _Crockery_Cookery_
specifically warned about that. The minimum safe cooking temperature
is 180F/82C. Then the included reviews of various slow cooker models
said things like "Position 1 is too cool to cook food properly. It is
only designed for warming."
 
Omelet wrote:



Standard food safety advice is no more than two hours at an
unsafe temperature.

(I violate this pretty often in letting cuts of meat come up to room
temp before cooking them; but I don't exceed three hours.)


Steve
 
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Omelet wrote:


http://www.crock-pot.com/Product.aspx?cid=113&pid=1546

click on instruction manual, and my computer downloads a .pdf:

"NOTE: Some models feature a WARM setting. WARM is ONLY for
keeping already cooked food warm. DO NOT cook on the WARM
setting. We do not recommend using the WARM setting for more
than 4 hours."

Somebody else also posted this, I believe.

I don't know which model you have, though.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA
[email protected]
 
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:07:44 -0600, Omelet
wrote:


Until dehydration occurs... the warm setting holds food in the safe
zone same as the proverbial soup pot that sat on the stove all winter
with constant subtractions and additions. However if one starts by
cooking tainted food then everything eaten from that pot subsequently
can cause illness.
 
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[email protected] says...

Sorry to disappoint but you are not the centre of the universe; there
are other people beside yourself reading this thread, and some of them
might even learn something useful from it.


Janet
 
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