PureClayCooking

Is that even possible? In your kitchen is a slow cooker that takes almost a whole day to cook your favorite food. After waiting for hours, you sometimes find out that only half the pot of food is cooked… for some weird reason, the other half is not done properly. And what about the pot itself, who know what materials it’s made of and the glaze or enamel coating… what is that made of?  As we know all of that is reactively leaching into your food also. Continue reading Slow Cooking with Healthiest Cookware: in Record Time, and with Bonus Value

With the mission to make the world’s healthiest cookware, Miriam’s Earthen Cookware (MEC) – a US based company has been making 100% pure clay cookware, in the cleanest way possible, and has customers around the world who are enjoying healthy and delicious meals in them. Let’s see how MEC differs from other clay cookware and what makes it a better choice: Continue reading Miriams Earthen Cookware vs. Other Clay Cookware

Have you ever tried pressure cooking in pure clay? If you haven’t, you are missing out on the healthiest, most nutritious and delicious food cooked using the unique steam management feature of pure clay cookware. But how can a clay pot that has no vents, no tight-fitting lid, be used for pressure cooking that necessarily requires steam to be locked within the pot for cooking food? Let’s find out: Continue reading Healthy Pressure Cooking minus the Leaching: Experience Pressure Cooking in Pure Clay

Pressure cooking with pure and natural clay pots is 100% non-toxic, healthy and truly green! And your clay pot is healthy only when it is all natural: made with no chemicals additives, glazes or enamels, like the way Miriam’s Earthen Cookware is made.

While you are on your way to start pressure cooking in pure clay pots, here are 6 great tips that can keep your food healthy and delicious:

1. When cooking in pure clay pots, there is no need to pre-soak beans. You can simply add beans to the pot with enough water and cook for about 40 minutes at medium heat (this is for 3-4 cups of dried beans). That’s it!

2. Cooking in clay pots usually take the same time as a metal pressure cooker but food is much healthier and completely non-toxic because unlike metals, pure clay doesn’t leach toxins, it is 100% inert and the gentle heat from its walls cooks by keeping nutritional cells intact.

3. Always choose the safest clay pots, and ones designed to condense steam naturally. MEC pure clay pots are ergonomically designed so they preserve steam (water soluble nutrients) even when the lid doesn’t fit perfectly: the lid stays cooler than rest of the pot and lets all the steam condense on its inner surface and fall back into food.

(MEC or Miriams Earthen Cookware is an all-American company based in the US that has been making cookware from pure clay sourced from US, for more than a decade. They ship worldwide through their online store.)

4. Pressure cooking in clay pot requires little to no babysitting. You can put all the ingredients in the pot, close the lid and let them cook at low to medium heat. It is best to not open the lid often.

5. Clay pressure cookers work better on gas stoves because the heat is uniform, but can also be used on electric coil and electric glass cooktops without any issues (might take a few minutes longer), although a diffuser is recommended with these to protect the pot from uneven heat.

6. Clay pressure pots can be used for more than just pressure cooking: you can use them as Dutch Oven, Best Soup & Stews Pot, Pressure Cooker, Rice & Grains Cooker, Yogurt Maker, Vegetable Steamer, Slow Cooker, Bread Baker and many more. In fact, you can also use one pot for different types of cooking.

Hope you find these tips helpful in trying your next pressure cooking recipe with pure clay. If you haven’t already, head over to MEC Store and order pure clay pots today.

Slow cooking with Miriam’s Earthen Cookware (aka MEC) makes food healthier and tastier, and to make things better, it is a lot more convenient if you know how to use it for this purpose! Here are simple answers to 5 important questions that can make slow cooking in pure clay an easy breezy process: Continue reading Slow Cooking with MEC’s Pure Clay Pot: 5 FAQs Answered

There are many benefits to cooking in clay pots – the oldest form of cookware and bakeware! Especially if the clay is pure and 100% primary clay, these benefits are multiplied to yield invaluable health and eco-friendly benefits namely 100% non-toxic food, no loss of nutrients during cooking and even storing, their ability to retain heat for much longer periods of time and many more… Continue reading Clay Pot Cooking: 6 Common Myths Busted!

Cooking rice in clay not only keeps them healthy, they taste great too. The secret lies in cooking them in a 100% non-toxic, all-natural material that makes the best rice cooker and the rice and grains cooked in it are beneficial in many ways: Continue reading Rice and grains: Learn about the many benefits of cooking them in Clay:

Yogurt is such a delightful and healthy food and can be enjoyed in many ways.  It is easy to make and takes about 10 minutes, hands-on time.  Some people however face issues when making yogurt and this article discusses some of the issues the easy solution for each case: Continue reading Making Yogurt 101: Easy Fixes to 5 Common Issues

If you are into healthy eating, then the highly nutritious beans and lentils can be a great choice. The conventional way would be pressure cooking beans and lentils in a stainless steel or aluminum pressure cooker. They cook faster this way because of the high amounts of pressure that builds up inside these kind of pots.

This method surely seems convenient but have you considered what happens to the health & nutritional value of your wisely chosen ingredients? Let’s find out: Continue reading The Benefits of Pressure Cooking Beans and Lentils in Miriams Earthen Cookware

The practice of using a slow cooker for certain recipes originated for two main reasons – first, the convenience of cooking without babysitting, and secondly, the belief that slow cooking is good for nutrients in food. This is why people frequently adopt slow cooking for recipes like bone broth.

Though conventional slow cooking may seem a great invention, looking a little deeper you will find that it’s not as beneficial as it seems: Continue reading Slow cooking doesn’t have to be “Slow” anymore using this ancient art of cooking