For how long should I nuke a sweet potato on this cooker for it to be fluffy &amp; dry?
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I have never cooked a sweet potato in it. I cook ordinary potatoes with great results but it depends on the size of them. You need to experiment. For a large or two small, start with 4 minutes and if you need longer, then put them in to finish off.
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Hi Lori, good question. I am not sure but think you would probably have to soften it a bit perhaps by microwaving for a couple of minutes, not enough to make it soft, but enough to make it more tender. Tomorrow I am going to the grocery store, so I will pick up a sweet potato and try it. I will get back to you with the results of my experiment. Mandy
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It all depend on how many and size or what kind of sweet potato. I'll put at least 1 to 1 and half cup of water to try them out.
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I cook ricebut try quinoa. It comes out nice an fluffy in a short time. Everything steams very quickly.
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Fill the plastic water measure to the hard cooked line "6or7" pour in the bottom of the cooker and turn it on and about 6 or 7 minutes the very loud buzzer will let you know when they are done. The water measure can be hard to read and be sure you use the hard cooked, not the soft or medium soft lines. It really has worked well for me every time.
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You can set up to 10 hours on the timer. Overall, I'd say this cooker is a bit on the low side. It takes a good 3-4 hours in HI to get a bubbling edge. It has a vented top, so make sure to use plenty of liquid.
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About a half hour. I like to let the hot rice rest a while in the cooker after mixing it around a bit. It makes the rice less sticky.
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Honestly, a sweet potato broke mine :( Looking into replacing it right now.
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I would guess about 50 minutes. The few times that I have used this cooker has lead me to believe that cook times are approximately 10 minutes per pound. Just make sure to use the thermometer so you never have to guess when it is done cooking.
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This oven works like a normal oven; therefore about one hour. Of course the baking time depends on a lot of variables - are you using the blower, what temperature have you set the oven at and lastly, how large is the potato?
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I am a novice (been doing this 3 days), but I purposely chose a model with a timer to shut off. It has already been most valuable. I was dehydrating a pasta sauce, and saw recommendations to check it after about 10 hrs and turn it over when it is solid enough. At 10 hrs it was not ready, but was a couple hrs later, when I was ready to go to bed. So I turned it over, set the timer for a few hours, went to bed and my dehydrated sauce was ready to package this morning.
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I do whole potatoes in under 30 min. But I would not recommend doing to much else it will end up shooting out the air pressure hole. Making huge mess and possibly screwing up the whole machine
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I bake mine in a 7 qt slow cooker, on "high" about 2 hours. When the cheesecake reaches 150 degrees on an instant-read thermometer, it's time to turn off the heat and let it sit in the slow cooker for another hour. It sits above water on a homemade foil rack. Recipe from America's Test Kitchen, "Slow Cooker Revolution, Vol 2". Works every time. Super yummy, and I'm not even a cheesecake lover.
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It's the steam that keeps the food moist, so I always add water to what ever I warm up. As for how long to nuke it, it depends on the amount of food you are nuking. I would start at 1 minute and test.
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The automatic setting does not cook long enough unless you are using a small potato. I did my last medium one at 400 degrees for one hour and it was okay. I will try 450 degrees next time. Good luck!
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I just made sweet potato chips yesterday. I sliced them as thinly as I could, rubbed olive oil on them, and sprinkled some with sea salt and some with cinnamon. I dried them for about 11 hours, I think. They're pretty good, but I think that if I could have gotten them thinner they might have been better. They're very crunchy, but "hard" crunchy. This might be the norm for sweet potato chips, as packaged ones I've had are certainly harder than potato chips. I'm going to look for suggestions for better results, but I think this was a successful first try.
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Use a regular microwave cooker, as you would for veggies. The Potato Express isn't worth your time or money.