You know, I've never owned a CrockPot new enough, or fancy enough, to have an AUTO position. That might be the ideal setting to hold your soup. I'd check my owner's manual. Alternatively, pick up an instant reading thermometer and measure the food temperature. If your LOW setting doesn't hold the food at 145 degrees or higher, use the HIGH position.
If HIGH is TOO high, IE the food is still cooking and you don't want it to, remove the food from the CrockPot and repan it in something else. Then you can control the holding temp. on top of the stove.
Food held in the Danger Zone of 41 to 140 degrees is subject to microbial contamination resulting in food borne illness.
Is there some reason that you can't just start the meal 2 hours later and avoid the hold time?
FriPilot
its when its set high
A crock can be kept in a freezer without any problem, if that's what you are wondering.
If you have a crock pot or slow cooker you can make just about anything in there. Kraft has some great slow cooker recipes that you can get from them and start dinner before you go to work and have a delicious and tasty dinner when you get home.
Yes, on the low setting.
The auto setting cooks on high for the first hour, then adjusts the setting to low for the remaining cooking time.
The temperature settings on a Rival Crock-Pot are listed by increasing temperature meaning that the high setting is represented by the higher numeral and the low setting is represented by the lower numeral. So, "I" means low and "II" means high.
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10 to 12 hours on low setting.
If you put it on low and leave it they should be done by the time its dinner.
4 1/2 hrs on high setting! Simple isn't it
Yes
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