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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]
In its original form, from the 19th century until about 1950, the device usually consisted of a round dial about 9 inches (230 mm) in diameter with a knob at the center attached to one or more handles, and an indicator pointer on the face of the dial. There would also be a revolutions per minute (RPM) indicator, worked by a hand crank. Modern ...
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]
These 35 best Crock Pot potato recipes are exactly what you need to make dinner time fuss-free. Related: 25 Crock Pot Meatball Recipes.
The indicator traditionally would be a dial indicator; today dial-type and digital indicators coexist. The earliest expansion of "TIR" was total indicated run-out and concerned cylindrical or tapered (conical) parts, where " run-out " (noun) refers to any imperfection of form that causes a rotating part such as a shaft to "run out" (verb), that ...
Dial test indicator. A dial test indicator, also known as a lever arm test indicator or finger indicator, has a smaller measuring range than a standard dial indicator. A test indicator measures the deflection of the arm, the probe does not retract but swings in an arc around its hinge point.
The term may also refer to a movable control knob used to change the settings of the controlled instrument, for example, to change the frequency of the radio, or the desired temperature on a thermostat. Styles of dials: Circular, Fixed pointer with moving scale, Fixed scale with moving dial. Examples of dial usage: Pressure and vacuum gauges,
Instant Pot is a brand of multicookers manufactured by Instant Pot Brands. The multicookers are electronically controlled, combined pressure cookers and slow cookers . The original cookers were marketed as 6-in-1 appliances designed to consolidate the cooking and preparing of food to one device.