Cookware

Rice cookers come in various sizes with many features. Buying one depends on your family eating preferences, and how much time you have for cooking. Most people who use cookers are eating rice at...

West Bend Slow Cookers are manufactured by Focus Electrics, which maintains an official website where you can view product catalogues and order replacement parts. West Bend makes both slow cookers...

Cooking with an electric pressure cooker can make the task of cooking meals easier in a busy kitchen. A variety of foods, from meats to beans to vegetables, are easily placed into the pressure...

Solar cookers, built of reflective materials, harness the sun's energy to cook or bake food, and to pasteurize water.

Steamers and pressure cookers are quick and efficient tools used to create a variety of unique and healthy dishes. While they are often confused, these two items are very unique and serve...

Heat and pressure, when applied correctly, can yield a number of benefits. The driving forces behind autoclaves--heat and pressure--have been time-honored tools in the biomedical professions. But...

Solar cookers use the sun's heat to cook food. They are cheap and easy to build. The most popular solar cooker is the solar oven, which is the easiest sun energy cooking implement to build for...

Both the Big Green Egg (BGE) and the Grill Dome are modern versions of an ancient Asian-style clay cooker called a kamado. These ceramic cookers can be used as grills, smokers or ovens. They...

Typically used by outdoorsmen in the United States, solar-powered stoves capture and concentrate the sun's rays to heat food and liquids to desired temperatures. Results vary greatly by latitude...

Rice cookers and rice steamers are a useful tool in the kitchen. A rice cooker produces perfectly cooked rice with ease and can keep it warm for hours. There are several options to consider when...

Slow cookers operate by bringing up the temperature of food over several hours before reaching a simmering point. Their big advantage is that you can toss in chicken, rice, vegetables and maybe a...

Rice cookers are convenient, versatile and easy to use. A standard rice cooker will only require only two or three steps for rice preparation, resulting in perfectly cooked rice in about 20...

Slow cookers can be a homemaker's best friend. Sometimes they are called Crock Pots, the name of a well-known brand of electric slow cookers. Slow cookers save time and energy and are a big help...

Slow cookers are a tool of convenience for many families. Using a slow cooker allows a meal to cook while nobody is at home. The food cooks slowly at a low temperature, allowing it to absorb the...

Automatic rice cookers are easy to use, save time and can make rice with the picture consistency and texture much easier than other methods. Many rice cookers also do more than cook just rice. ...

Rice cookers come in a variety of shapes with varying features. They take the pressure away from having to cook rice the traditional way by standing over a stove, constantly monitoring the rice...

Electronic rice cookers take all the guesswork out of cooking rice. They all work in basically the same way--you put in rice and water, and the cooker will heat up and cook the rice until it is...

A rice cooker takes the guesswork out of making rice at home. It doesn't matter if you are cooking white or brown rice, a rice cooker promises perfect rice every time you use it. Many cookers also...

Rice cookers are usually electric appliances, much like a crockpot or slow cooker. The insulated outter container is equipped with a heating device, thermal sensors and controls. A removable pot...

Slow cookers are really nothing new. Several techniques have been used to cook tough food slowly in its own juices. Native peoples---and numerous boy and girl scouts---used "bean holes"---pits dug...

Now that energy costs are spiraling and eating out is getting more expensive, finding ways to save time and money in the kitchen is becoming increasingly more important. There are ways you can...