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A modern, oval-shaped slow cooker. A slow cooker, also known as a crock-pot (after a trademark owned by Sunbeam Products but sometimes used generically in the English-speaking world), is a countertop electrical cooking appliance used to simmer at a lower temperature than other cooking methods, such as baking, boiling, and frying. [1]
Bill Slowsky in front of his computer, attempting to download a file using his DSL connection. This was also a 30 second commercial, but it is currently lost media. [1] The Slowskys are a national television advertising campaign for Comcast Cable's Xfinity broadband Internet service. [2] The ads feature an animatronic turtle couple, Bill and ...
"The slow cooker, a countertop electrical appliance, cooks foods slowly at a low temperature—generally between 170° and 280° F. The low heat helps less expensive, leaner cuts of meat become ...
ABBA Christmas — This infomercial spoof promotes a never-released album of holiday songs from "The Fleetwood Mac of cold weather" (Bowen Yang, episode host Kate McKinnon, and McKinnon's fellow SNL alums Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig), all set to the tunes of their well-known classics (e.g. "Gifts for Me, Gifts for You").
Simple electric rice cookers were developed in Japan in the 1950s. Over time more functions were added to cook other types of grains and soups, and the appliances became known as multicookers. Modern cookers include electronic time, temperature and pressure controllers and are marketed as "automated multipurpose cooking appliances".
Sous vide cooking using thermal immersion circulator machines. Sous vide (/ s uː ˈ v iː d /; French for 'under vacuum' [1]), also known as low-temperature, long-time (LTLT) cooking, [2] [3] [4] is a method of cooking invented by the French chef Georges Pralus in 1974, [5] [6] in which food is placed in a plastic pouch or a glass jar and cooked in a water bath for longer than usual cooking ...
From 2005 to 2008, commercial breaks on Nickelodeon usually began or ended with a Nick Extra short. These included: Quicktoons: Short animations that end with a Nickelodeon logo. Interpretives: Nickelodeon characters being created out of different things. A Closer Look and Inside the Nicktoons Studio: Behind-the-scenes videos about Nickelodeon ...
In 1970, they acquired the Chicago-based Naxon Utilities Corp., makers of a little-known product called the "Bean-Pot" slow cooker. [7] Rival re-introduced the Bean Pot as the Crock-Pot in 1971, along with a book of slow-cooker recipes, and it quickly became one of their top products. [6]