Don’t overflow your slow cooker
To make sure your meal is finished in the time listed on your recipe, and to avoid
potential food-safety hazards, don’t overfill your slow cooker
Keep a lid on it
The secret to making perfect baked potatoes is to make them soft, well done inside and golden brown on the outside. Since your convection toaster oven cooks evenly on all sides, your potatoes come out cooked to perfection even if they are very large. Add some cheese and bacon bits and your guests will love you for ever.
Air Frying Tips
Don’t Overload
Remember, your air fryer is just a little oven. If you were cooking, say, chicken breasts in a regular oven, you wouldn’t stack them on top of each other, would you? Same deal here, with the aforementioned exception of fries and veggies, spread them out as best you can and don’t overload the basket.
Adapt oven recipes
Want to make an old favorite in your air fryer? Even if your recipe was written with conventional ovens in mind, it’s easy to adapt nearly every recipe for fryer use. Typically, you’ll just lower the cooking temperature by about 25 degrees Fahrenheit. If the oven recipe says 350 , the fryer gets set to 325. Similarly, you’ll need about 20 percent less cooking time.
Tin Foil Wrap Foods to Prevent Drying Out & Over-Crisping
It’s completely safe to wrap food in tin foil in an air fryer (unlike a microwave or conventional oven). Tin foil wrapping does excellent work of keeping the moisture inside your food.
Rice cooker Surprises
Steamed meats & veggies
While you cook your rice, why not steam vegetables and meats at the same time? As a bonus, the meats/vegetables enhance the flavor of the rice or you could use broth to cook the rice and up the flavor of the entire dish. Your rice cooker should have instructions for using the steaming tray
Frittatas
Pre-cook some vegetables or whatever ingredients you want in your frittata (you can microwave the veggies), then whisk some eggs right in the rice cooker bowl and add your ingredients to the egg mixture. Cook on the regular rice setting and when it’s done, you’ve got a quick breakfast (or dinner) for at least two people, depending on your rice cooker size.
