I have a question...

A crockpot question.

I just had to go get a larger crockpot.
The one I had was good for cooking for a coupla people, but, for cooking for four... it warn't big 'nuff.
Plus, we did just get a whole buncha chunksa beef from Da Bossman.
So, a bigger crockpot became necessary.

I got a nice one.
Six and a half quart-sized.
It's a GE, too.
($25 from the local Wally-world...)

Anyway, this one came with two cooking inserts.
A ceramic one, which is what I'm used to and have always known them to have AND an enamel one.
And, nowhere in the lengthy instructions (wherein they tell you not to submerse it, pop popcorn in it, cook in your sleep or insert it into any orafice) do they bother to mention what the enamel one is for.

So...
what's it for?
Is it special?
Are ya s'posed to cook only certain things in it?
Is it interchangable, pretty much, with the ceramic one and it's just a matter of which one ya feel like cooking any given thing in?
What?

I called my Dad, even, and asked him.
What he doesn't know about cooking isn't worth knowing and he had no idea.
*exhales thru nose*
Neither did my brother (yes, I FINALLY got to hear his voice for the first time since he got back from Iraq in AUGUST).
He used to watch damned near every cooking show there was on TV and he didn't know, either.

So, I leave it y'all to enlighten me.

What I'm doing today is... all the baking I was gonna do yesterday, PLUS a pot roast in said crockpot (I went with the ceramic insert for this) and I'm also about to go make macaroni salad, potato salad and egg salad.

I don't know what cookin' bug jumped up my ass, but apparently one did, 'cause I'm just a cookin' FOOL today.

I'm gonna do all this "real food" shit first, then, later, all the baking shit.

I didn't do it yesterday because everybody was off and around and it was just... I don't know... too crowded or something to get into it.
I know (all too well) I'm weird, but, for some reason, I don't like doing stuff like this, or cleaning, with a buncha people around.
I prefer to do this stuff alone...
(When I'm cleanin' alone, I prefer to be by myse-elf...)
(What? I'm the only one who heard George Thoroughgood in that? Please.)
Cleaning, especially.
The guys'll all go to bed and the house looks like a tornado blew through.
I stay up and clean and then, when they get up, it's like they're waking up in a different house.
And, to a certain extent, I'm the same way with cooking.
I'll do it with people awake and in the livingroom, but I don't necessarily need anybody watchin' me while I do it.
And, I have no more of an idea why I'm like that than I do what an enamel crockpot insert is for.

Anyhoo... I only have a coupla more hours til people start coming home/in the house, so I supposed I best in gear.

I'll beee bach.
(That's supposed to sound like Schwartz.. Schwartzen... Governor Ah-nold...)

Meanwhile...
Peace, y'all.

Posted by: Stevie at 03:49 PM

Comments

1 Hi, the metal/enamel insert is s'posed to be non-stick and should be used primarily for meats and poultry :>)

Posted by: vizsladog3 at November 13, 2006 04:01 PM (uJyoa)

2 Well, thank you, Darlin'.

Posted by: Stevie at November 13, 2006 04:27 PM (nddib)

3 I read: "The one I had was good for cooking a coupla people, but for
cooking four... it warn't big 'nuff"

Perked me right up.

So yeah, I'd go with the non-stick one for that.

Long Pork sticks to pots & pans something terrible.

Posted by: Mad William Flint at November 13, 2006 05:07 PM (g/0ur)

4 *lmao*

Posted by: Stevie at November 13, 2006 07:49 PM (nddib)

5 I looooooove my crock pot!
It's a life saver.

Posted by: Maeve at November 14, 2006 01:06 AM (b/7xM)

6 I am Happy that I am eating when reading this post because you made me even more hungry.

I with the non-stick meat group.

Posted by: Ole Blue The Heretic at November 14, 2006 01:58 PM (Lv180)






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