How do I use an electric crock pot?

[bluntforcemama]

I honestly haven't the slightest clue. Do I put water between the pot and the hot part of it?

 

[Dillinger]

Basic Crock/Slow Cooker Tips:
http://southernfood.about.com/library/weekly/aa102697.htm

Some recipies at:
http://www.bowhunting.net/susieq/crock.htm

Perhaps the recipies give a tip on how to use?

 

[Rubyfruit]

No, no, no. You'll ruin the motor if you put water there.

Just put a bit of water (or wine or broth) in the bottom of the crock and throw in your meat and veggies.

I love the way whole chicken comes out in a crock pot. Very moist and tender.

 

[morninggirl5]

No!!!!

Do you have the instruction booklet that came with it? It has some recipes in it to get you started until you learn the different times food takes.


If you don't have any instructions, let me know what you're cooking and i can give you some approximates. A crock pot and the microvwave have been my main means of cooking the past two years.

 

[bluntforcemama]

Thanks Ruby.



Dill, you're no help at all!

 

[Dillinger]

"A" for effort?

 

[Nobody Special's wife]

1.put food into the crock pot
2. plug it in
3.there is a little dial turn it to what you want
4.walk away

 

[bluntforcemama]

I'm making baby clams and artichoke hearts in a red sauce for spaghetti, and I need to to go to class, so I wanted to leave it in my parents' house in the crock when they got home so that they wouldn't have to cook too much. It'll be unattended for roughly 3 hours.

 

[bluntforcemama]

"A" for effort?

"C" for unneeded information.

 

[Guest]

I honestly haven't the slightest clue. Do I put water between the pot and the hot part of it?

EEEEEEKKKKKKKKK..... NO! Not unless you want to start an electrical fire and burn your house down! (ok, I'm a LEO and a little dramatic at times.....but it would ruin the appliance and probably send sparks around your kitchen)

You put everything into the pot itself, water, meat, veges, spices, etc., and put the pot into the container, plug it in, and turn it on.......maybe you need one of those crock pots that are all one piece, and doesn't come apart...that way you would have that option.....*smile*

Moon

 

[Dillinger]

If you put that "C" in a cup I'll be quite happy with it... *weg*

 

[bluntforcemama]

You know mine are small "B's"

 

[Dillinger]

OK. You wouldn't give me an "A" but offered a "C" - looks like we'll settle on a "B" then. *lol*

 

[cymbidia]

If i had to choose one kitchen appliance that i absolutely could NOT do without (beyond the big and basic ones like a refrigerator and a microwave, for instance), it would be a crock pot.

One can throw *any* combo of meat, chicken, veggies, grains, beans, water, broth, wine, etc into the thing, turn it on, go away for 6 or 8 or 10 hours and when you return...

Dinner is ready.

And it's good.
It's moist and flavorful and healthy.

I make totally killer split pea soup after the ham is gone with my crock pot. My family salivates for days knowing it's coming. It's WHY we have ham sometimes.

I make totally killer roast beef, too, in my crock pot.

And mexican type beans for mexican-type food, too, from scratch.

And chicken! Man! Crock pots are made for cooking chicken.

Yeh.
Water *inside* the pot.
Add some beans.
Add a chopped onion.
Add some garlic and pepper and some thyme, maybe, and hell! - toss in a bay leaf, too.
Add some sliced carrots and celery and potatoes.
Add some stew meat.
Add some water. Or leftover gravy. Or apple cider.
Put the lid on.
Turn it on low.
Go away.

Come back in 8 hours.

Dish it out over noodles or rice or just as it is with hunks of good bread.

You can make almost anything with a crock pot, out of whatever is lying around in your refrigerator and cupboards, and it's all always good.

 

[Dillinger]

Can I come over for dinner?

 

[Kitte]

There are three things in my life I cannot do without. My Hubby, My Vibrator, and My Crock-pot! If I had to get rid of one there would be serious consideration of how to get rid of hubby without hurting his feelings!

If anyone has a favorite recipe I am always willing to try new ones. I am looking for a killer Chili recipe as mine is a little northern!

¤Kitte¤

By the way I love this place! Where else could I talk about all three of my favorite things in one glorious forum!

 

[cymbidia]

Dill, you're welcome to a place at my dinner table anytime.
I mean that sincerely.



Kitte?
You'll find that Lit, here on the GB or out on any of the other forums here, are most definitely not places that can be characterized as 'just another forum'.

The people at Lit compose a community. We're real people to each other. Some of us are friends, some of us are not. We care about each other and we laugh and fight and kick the chair out from under each other on occasion just to watch the fall. We help when help is needed. We're intelligent and stupid and accepting and intolerant and supercillious and humble, all in the same day, on the same thread, in the same 10 minutes.

Lit is *not* just another forum, Kitte.
Not by a long long shot.
Welcome.

 

[Rambling Rose]

Only here do you find vibrators and crock pots in the same post ~ I have one...now I guess I am in dire need of the other!

 

[riff]

did someone say pot?

 

[Weird Harold]

I honestly haven't the slightest clue. Do I put water between the pot and the hot part of it?

Think of a Crock Pot as a Stoneware Stewpot and a warped Hotplate set permanently on "simmer."


The "hot part of it" should be eteched or stamped "Do Not Immerse in Water" because it's just an electrical heating element shaped to heat the stoneware pot.

 

[DustyWolfe]

Kitte
cook the hamburger meat, add a couple of cans of diced tomatoes... or fresh.. I use rotel cause it's hot. Use a couple of cloves of garlic well minced to cook with your meat. Drain the grease, dump the meat into a crock pot with the tomatoes.
Add tomatoe juice of some sort. I use v-8. Chop up peppers of your choice to add as well. The pepper can be cooked with the meat if you like. I use a combination of pablano, jalepeno, and a half of a habanero (don't rub your eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!) Just depends on how hot you like it. If you like beans in your chili a quick and easy way to do this is to grab a couple of cans of chili beans.

 

[Starblayde]

You have to switch Todd-o-vision off quickly, before things turn nasty.






OOOhhhhh... crOck pot....

my bad

 

[Dillinger]

Can we get back to the part where I have dinner with cymbidia? *grin*

I'll bring the leather restraints. *weg*

Thank you cym... and, sincerely, I may take you up on that someday... next time I'm out your way.

 

[cymbidia]

Thank you cym... and, sincerely, I may take you up on that someday... next time I'm out your way.

You'd be welcome, Dill.
Seriously.

 

[Rubyfruit]

cym, can I come when Dilly's there?