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Christopher Hurst is a man who knows about food.

He's won gongs for his food writing.

It's his job to know about the latest, the highest tech, the most cutting edge cooking techniques and gadgetry. But when he comes to his own

kitchen his favorite aid is a slow cooker, that ceramic pot star of cooking catalogs that sits in the corner of the kitchen slowly and electrically

braising food while you work or sleep. It was a recent discovery or really

disinterment because I found it at the bottom of the cupboard and it was something

from the 70s and some rather ghastly kind of orange-y-orangey brown and since it's discovering it and I've used it all

over the place and all sorts of things. It's one of those really un-sexy things what do you use it for? Well you could say that.

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