Chicken Crock Pot Recipes
Source(google.com.pk)Crockpot cooking was invented in 1971 a slow cooker named the “Crock-Pot” was introduced by the Rival company.
The term “crock-pot” has become a generic term for slow cookers.
Use has continued to increase over the past 20 years
Around 70% of U.S. households own one or more slow cookers in 2002
An increase of around 60% ownership than in 2000.
Today the use of slow cookers continues to increase at a rapid pace.
Around 60% of slow cookers have been purchased in the past few years
Close to 30% of users own 2 or more slow cookers.
Crockpot cooking has appeared on television
The Food Network, featured many recipes by celebrity chefs.
It has been predicted that slow cooking will be one of the fastest-growing cooking styles of this century
Technological advances have been made to make slow cookers simpler and more convenient to use.
Recent innovations include digital displays, multiple settings, dual dials which allow the user to set both cooking time and heat level, programmable timers to turn heat to warm when the cooking time is up, divided crocks for cooking more than one kind of food at a time, and cookers with multiple crock sizes, enhancing versatility and saving storage space.
Stylish designed slow cookers can go directly to the table for serving.
Improvements have been welcomed by American users
Users lifestyles have changed, people are working more than 40 hours a week and many are having to work multiple jobs in these uncertain economic times which gives them less time to cook
Crockpot cooking they are finding is both versatile and much easier on the budget
Less expensive cuts of meat become perfectly tender and delicious when cooked in a slow cooker and fresh foods which are often less expensive can replace packaged and processed foods.
My Dad, Irving Naxon, invented the crock pot, the then-called Naxon Beanery. He retired in 1971 and sold his business to Rival Manufacturing. They streamlined the design, renamed it the crock pot, and the rest is American culinary history. But what was his inspiration for its creation in the first place, you might ask?
My grandmother Tamara Kaslovski Nachumsohn, grew up in a small “shtetl” in Lithuania. She told my dad, when he was a young child, that when she was growing up back in the old country, each Friday afternoon her mother would send her to the local bakery with their pot of prepared but yet uncooked “cholent.” There it would be put into the oven for a full day, while the family observed the Sabbath and the hot oven cooled to warm while not in use for that same period. At sundown she would go to the bakery and bring the family their delicious pot of steamy stew.
Dad remembered the story and was inspired to find a way to create a heating element that surrounded the pot in the same way that an oven would have. He wanted to find a low cost, low electricity use solution. I remember our having a Beanery at home during the 1950′s and 1960′s. We used it to “boik” potatoes, roast corn, make delicious stews and soups. Mom used to put old fashioned oatmeal in it before we went to bed and we woke up to a steaming pot of hot cereal.
Today, the crock pot is central to American cooking. My dad, who passed away in 1989, would have been proud. He had over 200 patents in his name, and his creative mind has influenced our lives in many ways. I’m proud too.
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