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Slow-Cooker Interruption and Dinner Decision Record

Do not fill a missing cooking hour with a guess.

Fifteen minutes for one current household decisionFree · Two-page fillable PDF

Companion to Use the Slow-Cooker Power-Outage Facts Before Serving Dinner.

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Hypothetical example: an adult returns to an interrupted slow cooker while no one was home, follows USDA’s discard instruction and assigns an available alternative dinner.

01Record the observations

Record cooking and outage facts actually observed.

02Read the applicable case

Identify and follow the applicable USDA case.

03Make the two decisions

Separate the food disposition from the appliance question.

04Serve the current plan

Confirm an actual dinner alternative and adult handoff.

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