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This is the Cuisinart 3-In-1 Multicooker. This unit happens to be four quarts. It's a nice generous size. The great thing about this product is you can brown, saute, and then slow cook in it also. So you can still develop that really great flavor when you're browning meats, and then actually slow cooking. So you can use some little bit tougher pieces of meat, and this will allow you to brown it, and get a lot of flavor out of the meat, and then cook it at a really low temperature for a long period of time, and it'll be nice, and tender, and very flavorful. The other thing with this product is you can also steam in it. So you can steam artichokes. You can actually do a seafood boil, which is really nice. A lot of people I know also use it to make oatmeal. So when they get up in the morning, they have a nice, big warm batch oatmeal ready so that they don't have to rush around in the morning and get their kids ready for school, or even get themselves ready to get to work. Or on the weekend, if you have company, it's a great way to make a beautiful batch of oatmeal to have when you wake up in the morning. So let me show you what else you can do to program this unit. The one thing about it that I really like is that it can do what we call combination cooking. So you can basically switch between cooking modes. So if you're brown sauteing, and then you want to slow cook, you just press the button, and it automatically switches. You don't have to turn it off and turn it back on. It has a 24 hour timer, so you could cook for up to 24 hours. And then after the time elapses, it goes on a keep warm feature. So if you're preparing a meal in your slow cooker that you want to have ready when you get home from work during the week, if you're not at home on time, it's not a problem. It kicks on to keep warm, and it'll keep your meal ready for when you get home. The other thing is that over here, you'll notice there's a temperature, and I'm going to show you how to use it in a few minutes. But what happens here is that there's four settings. You have low, high, warm, which will go on automatically, and then simmer. So what I'm going to do today is I'm going to show you how quick and easy it is to make a rustic tomato soup, which you can have for a dinner party, if you want, or you can actually cook it and have it ready for during the week when you get home. So let's look at the rest of the pieces. This is your removable cooking pot. Just pick that up and slide it down. This is your glass lid. It's rimmed in stainless steel, has a nice handle on the top. And then this is your cooking rack. And this is great. I've mentioned you can do steamed artichokes. So there's two levels. This is the higher level. And you turn it over, and that's the lower level. So depending on what you're cooking or if you going to put ramekins in there and maybe cook a little bit of custard, that's important to use. So why don't we get started with that tomato soup? I'm going to remove the lid. And the first thing I'm going to do is add just a little bit of olive oil, some garlic-- hear it start to sizzle-- carrots, and then the rest of our ingredients that make our mirepoix, which helps develop really great flavor, and that's your onion and your celery. And the last thing I'm going to do is to add just right now a pinch of pepper to get it going, and then a pinch of salt. So what we're going to do, I'm just going to stir this around just a little bit. And then what we're going to do is we're going to let it cook for a few minutes. And we're going to come back and check on it. But something I forgot to mention to you is obviously, I showed it cooking in the pot right away. What I did was so we wouldn't have to wait was I had it set on Brown/Saute, and I put it on 350 so we wouldn't have to wait for it to heat up while we're getting cooking. And the other thing I want to mention about the temperature is that it goes from 150 all the way up to 400. So if you're browning any kind of meat, you're going to get a nice, really consistent temperature on that. So like I mentioned, we're going to let that sit for a few minutes, about six to eight minutes. We're going to come back and check on it and make sure it's all nice, and translucent, and it's starting to cook. So let's check on our vegetables. They're nice and translucent, and you can see they're starting to get a little color on them. And they're nice and cooked, so we're going to get a nice flavor to the base of our soup. And now what I'm going to do is I'm going to add the rest of the ingredients. And that is going to be these are sun dried tomatoes. These happen to have been in a little bit of the oil. The next item is basil. We're just going to put the basil in, and marjoram. The last ingredient here is going to be some baking soda. And then our two main ingredients are the fresh tomatoes, and lastly, vegetable stock. And what we're going to do now is we're going to put the lid-- I'm going to actually give it a little stir first, stir the ingredients around. You can see them. And like I mentioned, this is rustic tomato soup, so it's nice and chunky tomatoes. Put the lid on. Now, what we're going to do is we're going to set it by-- I mentioned earlier that it has combination cooking. We're just going to press Slow Cook. And you notice that automatically, because it has combination cooking, goes from one setting to the next. And you'll see the default here was low. I'm just going to show you the other settings. It's high, warm, and simmer. And then we're just going to go back to low, because we're going to let this cook for four hours. And then here's your timer. It goes from 0 all the way up to 24 hours. And today what we're going to do it is we're going just going to press it until it gets up to four. So what's going to happen is we're going to let it cook for four hours, and we're going to come back and check on our tomato soup. So here's our tomato soup. You'll notice it's not chunky anymore. It's really smooth, because I actually blended it. You don't have to do that. I prefer my soups chunky, so I'd probably leave it the way the ingredients went in. Having a slow cooker at home is really convenient. It does the cooking when you're off doing something else. Maybe you're at the soccer game, or maybe you're entertaining friends, doing something else, and the slow cooker's cooking for you. Remember, it's a great thing to have in your kitchen, cooks the food while you're away doing something else.