"slow fire" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a fire that is burning slowly, either because the fire is small or it is being fed with low heat. For example: The fire in the fireplace was burning slowly and steadily, giving off a warm glow.
The old aphorism — hire slow, fire fast — is still right.
Then it occurred to me: I am waiting for a slow fire to slowly cook these pork chops.
It is then slightly heated over a slow fire or in hot sunshine, stirred again to evaporate excess moisture, and stored in airtight vessels.
In 40 years of visiting this valley, we had never seen or heard of such a slow fire, especially in August and September.
Above me, the Southern Hemisphere stars were all dust and terror and distance and slow fire in the night, and I stared up, frozen, and frozen in wonderment.
Hire slow, fire fast, and once you find a great fit, keep those people around for as long as you can.
The slow ACh release profile was matched by the slow firing rate increase of a subset of medial-septal low-firing-rate neurons.
The slow fires of decomposition and new growth begin to burn with equal energy.
Is it strictly relevant that the Library of Congress guy in "Slow Fires" reminds Baker of Frank Gorshin as the Riddler?
A horrified messenger tells us, "Some of the flesh is fixed on spits and, set before slow fires, hangs dripping; other parts boiling waters tosses in heated kettles".
For more information regarding either of Sanders' films on this subject—Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age; or Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record please contact the American Film Foundation at (310) 459-2116.
