I'm sure this is a pretty uneducated question but I am new to cooking...at least good cooking...and I have been going over a lot of different recipes which will ask for a stock pot, a slow cooker, and sometimes a dutch oven.
To put it simply, they all seem like a different form of a pot to me. Slow cookers are electric while dutch ovens and stock pots are not. I don't see where the difference in results in food or why you would pick one over another in certain methods. I am not being critical, I really do want to know and become a better cook from learning. Any help or advice would be very welcome.
Why would you choose one over the other?
Best answer:
Answer by Let me steer you
A stock pot http://www.stainlessstockpots.com/stainless-steel-stock-pots/?gclid=CI7J1cDSsqUCFTRa7AodowK8Ww is really just a large pot that you use to cook with on top of the stove. The pot sits on one of the burners. They come in many sizes to accommodate the amount of product you're making.
A Dutch Oven is usually made of cast iron or of enamel over steel and has a lid. It is used to cook in the oven generally. You can also "hang" them on a hook over an open fire to cook. http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=dutch+oven&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&hl=en&biw=1024&bih=564&ie=UTF-8&cid=14516212913698211564&ei=5XLpTK3rEMWclgep-4ziCw&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=image&resnum=3&ved=0CFMQ8gIwAg#
A slow cooker is an electrical appliance. You put the product into the slow cooker, cover, turn it on and it cooks with very slow heat so it takes several hours to cook the food. A Crock Pot http://www.crock-pot.com/ is an example of a slow cooker.
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