How-To Tutorials for Clay Cooking

What Is A Pressure Cooker And Which Is The Best?

What Is A Pressure Cooker And Which Is The Best?

When evaluating something to be the best, the most important criteria is to find out how well it can fulfill its core purpose: in this case it is to cook your food safely and nutritiously?
Unfortunately most conventional pressure cookers are made of highly reactive metals and the high amounts of pressure inside can quickly and easily destroy the delicate nutritive cells in your food.
As a result of this forceful cooking, your food…

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How to Cook Pasta?

The directions are the same when cooking pasta in your pot. You don’t have to wait for the water to boil.
Add pasta to water on the stove (don’t wait for the water to boil), close the lid and let it cook, check the pot in 20-25 minutes. Using a fork, press the pasta against the wall of the pot to check if it’s cooked. If it’s not cooked give it a few more minutes, check again in a few minutes and turn the stove off when the pasta looks like it’s almost done. Turn the stove off and give it 5 minutes and until al dente…

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Cook your Best Soups & Stews… No Taste of Metals

One of the first things that convinced me that Clay Cooking was a worthy pursuit to dedicate my life was after tasting a soup with lentils cooked in a clay pot!  So many years later I still remember the taste, it was like nothing I’d tasted before, there was so much more flavor and richness to each grain of lentil.  My experience since that 1st time has only increased in appreciation for food cooked in clay…

It’s very easy and quick to make soups in your clay pots.  Here’s a list of few things to keep in mind:

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Easier & Healthier Beans & Lentils Cooking

Easier & Healthier Beans & Lentils Cooking

Love the idea of home cooked beans, but having trouble getting them to cook right? Beans turning out half cooked? Dry or Thirsty? Cook them in your MEC clay pots to get evenly cooked, moist, delicious & nutritious beans or lentils every time.

All pots are not made equal and depending on the pot you’re using, the food can have different results. When made in an inert, unglazed 100% natural clay pot, the pot does not react to the food and there is no leaching of it’s ingredients — like with metal, glazed or enameled pots. Your beans & lentils cook with far-infrared heat emitting from the walls,..

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Steaming Vegetables: Juicy, Full of Flavor & Nutrients.

Steaming Vegetables: Juicy, Full of Flavor & Nutrients.

It’s very easy to steam vegetables in your MEC pots. All you need is your pot and its lid, no additional gadgets needed. Steaming vegetables in you MEC clay pot takes less time and the vegetables get cooked more thoroughly without losing their shape, taste AND Nutritional Value. Steam locking lids hold all the steam inside making your veggies very juicy and delicious!

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Baking & Roasting in Clay — Make your best Turkey Ever… Brown on the Outside, Moist & Juicy on the Inside

Baking & Roasting in Clay — Make your best Turkey Ever… Brown on the Outside, Moist & Juicy on the Inside

Are you tired of baking that bland, dry turkey every year?.  Tired of having to add so much oil and other liquids that have some crazy, unhealthy ingredients just to make it turn out moist?  Then you should be baking yours in clay this year. Our X-Large pot fits an entire turkey!

The unique and even-far infrared heat lets seasoning and spices penetrate much deeper into the meat, filling it with the rich taste and flavor from your seasoning.
No metals in the pot, and pure-clay is non-reactive so all you will taste is your delicious turkey. Not the foul taste…

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