All Saving Crockpot !!

[MorelCabin]

I think I am the only person on earth who is incapable of making anything in a crock pot. I have 4 of them and only use them to keep stuff warm during parties. Anything I actually try to cook in them turns out horrible. My mom is great with a crock pot though and she is living with us right now, so we'll have lots of crock pot meals this winter. WOOT!!

LOL! I completely understand, really...we all have something that is relatively simple that we can't seem to cook. My mom is a fabulous cook and baker...and she can't make rice crispy squares for the life of her. Mine was rice...yup, I just learned to cook rice a couple of years ago...before that it was always just one big lump in a potThere is another thing I can't cook, but I can't think of it right now
I'm sure everyone esle has one too

 

[dacjohns]

Venison ribs and BBQ sauce in the slow cooker. Will see how they turn out in about 15 hours.

 

[MorelCabin]

Venison ribs and BBQ sauce in the slow cooker. Will see how they turn out in about 15 hours.

Mmmmm! Wherever you are...I think i can make it in 15 hours!

 

[dacjohns]

Venison ribs and BBQ sauce in the slow cooker. Will see how they turn out in about 15 hours.

Mmmmm! Wherever you are...I think i can make it in 15 hours!

The very southern tip of Illinois, USA.

 

[snapshot]

The perfect crockpot cookbook is "Fix it and forget it" and available at Walmart.


FC-- Chama and Truth or Consequences are two of my favorite places in NM and Silver City!

 

[ORChick]

For those of you with older crockpots wishing and hoping to get a new one .... be careful what you wish for! I have an old one (about 30 years, give or take a couple) that was just fine, but somehow I thought a new one might be nicer. And it is, in several ways; its bigger, its better looking (the old one, as mentioned, is from the 70's/80's) .... but it also has disadvantages. I thought it might be just mine, but have read this about others as well - the newer ones don't cook as slowly as the old ones; even the LO setting is as hot, and cooks as fast, or faster, than the HI on my old one. Sometimes slow is what I want. I suppose that someone decided that the LO on the old ones wasn't safe or something. Anyway, the old one was destined for the thrift shop, but it never got there . I now have and use both of them, always taking into consideration what I am cooking, and how fast, or slowly, I want it cooked.

 

[Marianne]

Good to know. I have one slow cooker that I can burn stuff on low. Both of mine are pretty old, but that one is the newer of the two.

 

[snapshot]

For those of you with older crockpots wishing and hoping to get a new one .... be careful what you wish for! I have an old one (about 30 years, give or take a couple) that was just fine, but somehow I thought a new one might be nicer. And it is, in several ways; its bigger, its better looking (the old one, as mentioned, is from the 70's/80's) .... but it also has disadvantages. I thought it might be just mine, but have read this about others as well - the newer ones don't cook as slowly as the old ones; even the LO setting is as hot, and cooks as fast, or faster, than the HI on my old one. Sometimes slow is what I want. I suppose that someone decided that the LO on the old ones wasn't safe or something. Anyway, the old one was destined for the thrift shop, but it never got there . I now have and use both of them, always taking into consideration what I am cooking, and how fast, or slowly, I want it cooked.

I agree!!! I sold my smaller, older one to a neighbor and bought a newer, bigger one from another neighbor. I like the larger size but it really cooks fast! I put it on LO for HI and KEEP WARM for LO. Seems to work fine like that.

 

[dacjohns]

We aquired a newer larger one with a removeable insert (casserole dish type thing). I'm cooking a venison neck roast on low right now and it is boiling at the edges. The original crockpots with the integrated ceramic liner wouldn't do that. Yes, it's easy to burn things in the newer ones. I don't think they're designed to be "slow" cookers.

 

[ORChick]

We aquired a newer larger one with a removeable insert (casserole dish type thing). I'm cooking a venison neck roast on low right now and it is boiling at the edges. The original crockpots with the integrated ceramic liner wouldn't do that. Yes, it's easy to burn things in the newer ones. I don't think they're designed to be "slow" cookers.

My 30 year old cooker also has a removable insert - a necessity for cleaning IMO. It also has a feature that I love that the newer ones do not - there is a setting that turns the heat to HI at the beginning, and once up to heat it automatically switches to LO. I'm sure that somebody somewhere complained that the LO setting on the old ones doesn't keep the food at a "safe" simmer, and that possibly one could get food poisoning. Or maybe someone did actually get sick, and it was assumed that this was the cause. Anyway, I'll keep my old one, and continue to use it along with the new one. They are practical cooking devices, but, like everything else, one needs to learn the ins and outs to get the best use out of them.