i really love my crockpot ? is there anyone who doesn't like it ?

I just did a roast chicken in it today. I put it in around 11 AM thinking my husband had to be at work at 6 so we would eat at 5. While I was at an appointment my husband called and said he was at his Mom and I should come and join him there to eat. I ran home reset it to low and when I got home around 7 it was perfect. The only problem was because it was so big I had to scramble to find something big enough to store it for the fridge. Of course had we been home to eat it, there would have been just a little left. But now tomorrow dinner just has to be heated.

I've never actually used a crockpot. I have access to one and my partner and I talk about using one of those to make some meals on some days but when it comes down to it, we never actually use it. We just leave it in the box, in the closet and worry about what we're going to fix and when we're going to fix it on the days that we have staggered. I've love to find a good recipe site so we have something to really base our ideas on. However I have yet to find one. Do you have any suggestions?

I love my crock pot too....I like making either a pork or turkey loin in them...I did a turkey loin with lemon and garlic on it.......man it was so good it was almost addicting....my son was actually here that night and ate over half of the loin by himself....also the pork loin with sweet potatoes under it and a cherry jell on top is also top notch!

Myself and my fiance don't cook that much yet. We don't have our own crockpot but I do like to eat crockpot food. I'm pretty sure I'll be using the crockpot (when we get our own)... There's so many things you can start cooking and leave on all day while you do chores etc... Lol, it's funny that your uncle doesn't like the way the food tastes, I don't think it tastes any different, but the meals i have in the crockpot are ONLY cooked in the crockpot, lol, so I wouldn't know the difference anyway!

Hi Sissygrl, much as I'd love to eulogise on the delights of food produced from my crock pot, I can't. We don't have those things over here, I think they must be American, that is unless they are what the Brits refer to as a slow cooker. A cooking pot with an electrical lead which you can leave food to cook in all day, would that be the same thing? If it is I don't have one of those either. I imagine it's the same effect as cooking something long and slow in a casserole dish in the oven. If it's the same I come into my own in that in winter with tasty casseroles.

I too love cooking in my crockpot. I love to cook pinto beans, stews, smothered cabbage and other meals. It is so easy to use. The recipes I use you can put all your ingredients in at once and just let it slow cook. You are right cook with a crockpot is awesome.

I like my crock pot. I have made some wonderful things to eat in it. I like to set it in the morning and have dinner ready when I get home. It is very nice to have a hot meal waiting for me.

i have one but seldom use it. i am usually home in order to make supper so i dont need to use it. i havent found any issue with the taste but just the time involved.

I love my crock pot. I will get up in the morning and start a spagetti sauce or a beef stew or chicken stew....it is the best. Also pot roast is excellent in it. One of our favorites is to take stew meat and simmer it all day in a beef gravy and serve it over mashed potatoes with a vegetable on the side. getting hungry just thinking about it.

Try doing a roast in it yumie it's GREAT I just love my I make chillie. stews. Ijust love it to. cd

I love my slow cookers, I have more than one, that is mostly how I cook now, I put them on in the morning when I am cooking breakfast and in the afternoon or evening my dinner is done. I have no problem with mine, and wouldn't trade them for nothing. They are an awesome invention.

I like my crock pot or slow cooker. Its really great at cooking my foods and you can just set the ingredients and food into the pot. I just plug it in and leave it to cook the foods for a few hours and don't have to worry about it. The foods turn out delicious. I love it.

My girlfriend got a crockpot as a present. She was so happy with it. She would go out of her way to use it for anything she possibly could.

I love my slow cooker as well! However, I attempted some recipes from a slow cooker cookbook that were terrible. Don't attempt pasta or dairy in a slow cooker. I'm looking forward to making soups this winter!

I love my crockpots! I have three (different sizes) LOL It's funny because a lot of people I know think that crockpots are only good for spaghetti sauce, chili or soup. One good cookbook and they would see all the things they could do with it. Granted I do make a lot of soup in mine (kitchen sink soup is great on the budget LOL uses up every little thing in the fridge!). I was lucky when I got my first crockpot, years ago - Rival was offering a bread and cake pan that fit inside it... so I ordered that, along with their cookbook. I can make breads and cakes in the crockpot so I sort of keep one of the three for doing that. I've made gingerbread to die for (as a tall cake, not cookies) and there's an applesauce cake I can do that's very much a "breakfast" kind of cake (much healthier than muffins, it uses applesauce (obviously!), raisins, nuts, and is economical... it only uses about a cup of flour). I wanted to get a second bread and cake pan but it seems they don't offer it anymore, far as I can tell :( Maybe I can find one on ebay or something. As far as meals go, I love to make roast pork, curried chicken, there's a meat macaroni dish that the kids really like, and a lot more. The days I use the crockpot are just so much easier... nothing to worry about at dinner time. It's already prepared :)

I think your uncles think it tastes different because it's a new method--crocks are ceramic and the food tastes great! I'd be afraid to leave it plugged in overnight, what if it develops a short and starts a fire? That's just paranoid me, though. When my crockpot is on low, after a few hours the sauce burns onto the sides. Am I doing something wrong?!

i remember my mother bought one when i was yound but she find it very slow. Maybe because she is just at home she is more up to sauting and boiling guru. I wanted to try to but have not the time to look for it. I've read some recipes using the crockpot and it seems helpful to those who are really busy. I will try to find my mom's and try it.

I really love cooking food in croc pots, they get a total different taste when cooked in it.I remeber my mother cooks lentil soup in a crock pot she makes it more tastier by putting oil and some spices to it.It just tastes apart from the worlds best foods.I want to cook in croc pots always and never leave this tradition because its the age old trdition in my home.

Hi Sissygrl I love my crockpot! I make stews and soups, I also make beans, I even take leftovers and throw them in the crockpot and have pot luck. When the weather gets cold I make a lot of soups and also chili, I like the convienence of not having to sit there watching something cook over the stove I can sit here and MYLOT without having to get up , do my housework,watch a little tv all sorts of things . and cleanup is great because you only have one pot to wash!

Hello I am just getting into the whole cooking thing, sucks I know, I don't own one but I will, I hear they are very good, there is so much to have to learn, I will and when I get the hang of everything nothing will stop me, I will cook just for the heck of it never to late to learn right? Thank you.