Stack Cooking in Waterless Cookware is practical.
Stack cooking in quality cookware is a great way to save some space when cooking large dinners.
The concept is to get the pot hot and put it on top of another pot. This cookware retains heat and conducts heat so well it will keep cooking. Always cook the meats and root vegetables on the lower or bottom. There is a small loss of heat as the layers go higher.
In this recipe, I cooked oxtail on the bottom in my 6qt. Then I had started the rice in my 4qt pot with some beans. The carrots and broccoli in the steamer basket, which I put on top of the 4qt with the rice. I left the broccoli in large pieces so it doesn’t over cook. Start the rice so it has boiled for at least 4 minutes on a med heat with the veg basket on top.
When ready place the rice pot on top of the 6qt dome cover over the oxtail. The 8″ frypan upside down the 4qt to act as junior dome cover.
Pineapple cake on the very top. Life is delicious!
Oxtail takes a very long time to cook to break the collagen down to become tender. I have cooked oxtail for up to 4 hours before in some pots. In the Kitchen Charm cookware it is such great even heat conduction it cooks much faster. You will need to cook the oxtail for at least 2 hours before starting the rest of the dinner. This dinner’s cooking time was just over 2:45min.
Start the cake. It usually takes about 5 minutes to get the sugar and butter caramelizing to the point it’s ready.
Cook the cake for 10 min on a med heat on the stove. Then add the cake to the very top of your stack. 30 min later should be good to go.
Don’t open the cake until you have served the dinner it will need at least 15 min to set.
To make sure you are at the right cooking temperature there should be a puff of steam popping out of the bottom pot very 30 seconds or so of the 6qt dutch oven. If there is no steam escaping you must turn the heat up a little.
Be careful not to have the heat to high, this may burn the oxtail.
The video for this recipe is below. Happy cooking!
Cooking chicken, pork and beef roasts come out great in my Waterless Cookware. I have done in the 4qt pot stack cooking in under an hour on a med-low heat.
For larger chickens and roasts use the larger pieces of cookware. For best results its best to have size of meat almost the size of the pot.
This is fun way of cooking that is very efficient. You always need quality cookware, makes great meals.
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My fiancee and I went to a wedding fair in Minneapolis where we saw Kitchen Charm and bought it. They were selling the pots and pans, giving demonstrations, and had special offers which were nice.