Once plugged in, select your cook mode. For rice, press the Rice Cooking button. The screen cycles through the White Rice , Brown Rice , Sweet Rice , and Reheat settings with each button press. Better flavor & texture: Along with nutrition, food soaks up more spices over long cook times, improving taste. Also, trapped steam bastes and tenderizes meat beautifully, giving cheaper cuts a 5-star-like texture. Using the touchpad, select your mode and press Start. This unit’s microprocessor takes over, monitoring your food and making necessary cooking adjustments itself. A Cooking Progress bar shows your food’s status in its chosen setting (also new to the Plus)! Using the twist-dial selector, choose from classic Low, High, and Warm heat settings. Use each function manually (no set time limit), or use the programmable controls to select an automated cook time. Countertop space: If you have limited free space, a 10-quart slow cooker isn’t too practical – unless you have a spare storage cabinet.

Also, this isn’t just a slow cooker insert… Calphalon designed it to double as a multi-purpose one-pot cooking tool for maximum flavor. Allows for extra cooking versatility, steam vegetables while using the pressure cooker side for your meat

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Automatically switches to Keep Warm for up to 14 hours ( Probe & Program settings only) – perfect for when you’re not home. Vitaclay’s unique slow cooker uses an unglazed Zisha clay inner pot – naturally free of lead and other toxic metals. A US-based lab test confirmed this, showing “None detected” for lead, cadmium, arsenic, and mercury. Hamilton Beach specifications applicable to all slow cookers (and their components) prohibits the product from containing any measurable amounts of lead.” Or, press the Slow Cooking button to filter through its low and slow modes: Stew , Soup , or Yogurt . Power interrupt technology: Keeps the slow cooker going after brief power outages (5 seconds or less) without resetting.

Better flavor & faster cooking: Zisha clay retains & disperses heat evenly into food. Also, its porosity improves moisture circulation, bathing food in trapped steam & moisture for 50% faster cook times. Slow cooking does not kill nutrition (necessarily), although long cook times can squeeze nutrients out of your food. However, lost nutrients stay trapped in the pot! That leads us to reason #4— Automatically switches to Keep Warm once your food finishes. Unless stopped manually, the Keep Warm mode shuts off after 12 hours for safety. The VM7900 takes over from there, perfectly cooking your meal of choice. Once finished, the unit switches to Keep Warm automatically for up to 12 hours. You can also manually extend the preset cook times up to 12 additional hours.However, Duo Plus offers several new features, including Cake, Egg, and Sous Vide! And it couldn’t be easier to use: This slow cooker from Hamilton Beach offers significant advancements over its manual version. Sure, it provides safety and automation, but it’s an absolute game-changer for meat… Compatible with most oval-shaped 6-Qt slow cookers (can also be used in 7-Qt and 8-Qt slow cookers) - Is this last part accurate? Duo Plus has the same programs as our previously featured model – the Instant Pot Nova. These settings include Pressure Cook, Slow Cook, Rice, Bean/ Grain, Steam, Saute (also used to boil water or sear), and Yogurt, to name only a few.