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a patient machine that turns cheap, tough cuts into Sunday dinner while you ignore it for nine hours
means A slow cooker: an electric pot that cooks food gently over many hours at low heat.
from A genericized trademark — Crock-Pot, registered by Rival Manufacturing in the early 1970s for their slow cooker, the name catching on so thoroughly that people now say 'crock pot' for any slow cooker. The 'crock' part is far older: an earthenware or stoneware pot, a word reaching back through Old English 'crocc' (a pot or vessel) to Germanic roots, with cousins in Old Norse and Dutch for similar earthen jars.
- origin
- Invented to slow-cook Jewish cholent, a Sabbath stew
- brand name
- Crock-Pot is trademarked; slow cooker is generic
- 1970s boom
- Sold hard to working women joining the workforce
- low and slow
- Collagen melts to gelatin around 160 degrees
- safety edge
- Lid stays shut; opening adds 20 minutes cooking
hamilton beach slow cooker — hamilton beach's competing slow cooker line, another major brand in the slow cooking appliance market since the 1970s