I’ve been “burned” more than once by this crock of crap! My mom bought a crock pot for us for an anniversary present a few years ago and I swear the new ones DONT cook! They heat. That’s about it. I can put in potatoes on high for 6-7 hours and they’re still hard. Maybe I have a faulty one but today I’m THROUGH with it! Took my corned beef out and put it in a good ol Dutch oven to cook properly!!!
I may hang onto the crock pot to try and render fat and make soap. It deserves a crappier fate tho. I’d like to take a crowbar to it.

I've taken to cooking my corned beef in an instant pot, pressure cooker. Only takes a short amount of time and gets nice and tender and stays moist.

I don’t have one of those. But my cousin was married to a Cuban fellow and he made us a roast in a pressure cooker. It was amazing!

Well, you need to get one. They aren't overly expensive and you can cook a pot roast from frozen to falling apart in about 90 minutes.

The El-Smash-O ...has arrived !

Now younz see how mean I can really be

My last crockpot before this one had the opposite problem. Even on the lowest setting it would supercook everything. Forget about putting something in it and going to work. It would be charred when you got home. The one I have now is a Hamilton Beach and it works as it should.

Mine is a large one and is fine too. I love slow barely simmering bones in water all night to make the best bone collegian ever. Freeze in jars and use it for thick great chook soups, stews, anything.

It cooks everything else fine too. Like Angela's, sometimes it wants to simmer a little too hard for good gelled collegian, so all I do is set the lid off kilter a wee bit so it has more air to keep it slow simmer.

Good tools make a happy chef, bad ones make smashingly unhappy ones ...

We do have a large crock pot that works well. It is a Kenmore. It's bigger than we need, most of the time, so use the instant pot in slow cook mode for all day cooking.

I think there was a big issue with the Frontier Woman or something similar sounding crockpots that were garbage.

You ain’t kidding Smash is unhappy with it!!!
Get the right tool for the job, right?!

You women that cant cook need more practice in the kitchen.

Ill tell ya another tool that has made my rice cooking days fun and easy. A rice cooker. Mine is small, holds around five cups, but can measure for anything less too. Add water. All to the line indicated. Push "cook" and 45 minutes later, perfect rice every time. The aroma of jasmine rice as it cooks is pure heaven. No more stirring or worries.

I have SJA to thank for his advice on some fine tools for Asian stir fry.

A happy chef indeed. No cussing....unless they are happy exclamations of success

LOL ! There ya go again ! Troublemaker....

I feel the same way about new countertop grills. They have hot spots and spots that don't cook. Will pay ten times more for one that works but can't find one!

I can’t BAKE.
I can cook very well, smarty pants!
I always tell Chuckie (who has a sweet tooth) “I’ll cook you a flamingo before I’ll bake a pie….and it’ll be the tastiest flamingo you’ll ever have”

How do you get them out of the zoo?

The one I have is a 6 qt. I don't who makes it but it cooks good .

Providence, they’re real easy to snatch up by the neck . You just gotta watch out for them long legs