gregz wrote:
>
> Gayle Hodur > wrote:
> > There are times I want to prepare a slow-sooker recipe the night before
> > and start it cooking first thing in the morning. I read that if you
> > refrigerate the stuff in the stoneware dish you should cook it for 2
> > hours on high and then switch to low. They didn't say if those 2 hours
> > on high count as 2 hours of your cooking time or if you do them in
> > ADDITION to the full cooking time. Anybody know?
>
> Should be in addition, but might take off some of the time. You would have
> to measure temp to be sure.

I always start a slow cooker (crockpot) on high up to a simmer. You don't
want to put things in there at low temp and let bacteria grow for hours.
That said, the simmer temps later on will kill off all of the bacteria.

gary