The liners are like plastic bags, like the roasting bags made for use in your conventional oven, mostly used for roasts or turkey so it stays moist in the oven. The ones designed for crockpots are useful when you want something to cook in its own juices but not dry out. Also useful for dinners you want to prepare the night before and put into the crock in the morning to cook. In that case, you put the bag in the crock, fill it, tie it closed, remove it to a metal pan or plastic storage container to your refrigerator overnight, have your crockpot ready to receive it in the morning and go to bed. In the morning you remove the plastic bag to the crock, turn the pot on and let it do its thing. This way you don't put a cold crock into the pot, where it could heat too quickly and break, causing possible injury and creating a mess you really don't want to have to clean up after. That said, I have been known to put my cold crock into the pot when leaving it turned on low for the day. I would never do it though if I had a crockpot with a bottom rather than a side cooking element.
Pamela Fairchild <pamelafairch...@comcast.net> -----Original Message----- From: Cookinginthedark On Behalf Of diane.fann7--- via Cookinginthedark Sent: Friday, February 21, 2020 9:26 PM To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Cc: diane.fa...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CnD] Slow cooking I am truly thankful we have crockpots with removeable croks. Would one of you please explain about the liners. Thanks. Diane -----Original Message----- From: Cookinginthedark <cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org> On Behalf Of Dena Polston via Cookinginthedark Sent: Friday, February 21, 2020 8:52 PM To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Cc: Dena Polston <dpolst...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [CnD] Slow cooking I wouldn't know what to do without my crockpots and those liners are a miracle! (smile) -----Original Message----- From: Cookinginthedark [mailto:cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org] On Behalf Of Nicole Massey via Cookinginthedark Sent: Friday, February 21, 2020 5:55 PM To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Cc: Nicole Massey Subject: Re: [CnD] Slow cooking I've got two of the original Rival Crock Pots, both of which still work, though I only use them with liners these days because otherwise they're a nightmare to clean. I've got two others, my 5 quart removable crock Rival the one I use the most. I slipped up and melted the cord on it, so I had to replace it., but it still works great after that repair. Sent from my HAL 9000 in transit to Jupiter -----Original Message----- From: Cookinginthedark [mailto:cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org] On Behalf Of Marie Rudys via Cookinginthedark Sent: Friday, February 21, 2020 2:28 PM To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Cc: Marie Rudys <marmusi...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [CnD] Slow cooking Wow!! An older slow cooker from the '70's Amazing how some things last longer than others. Marie -----Original Message----- From: Cookinginthedark [mailto:cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org] On Behalf Of Linda S via Cookinginthedark Sent: Friday, February 21, 2020 10:50 AM To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Cc: Linda S Subject: Re: [CnD] Slow cooking Wow, I like this recipe. I've had one of my slow cookers since the 70's too, my firiends gave it to ome at my first baby shower. It's a smaller one so I only used it for me and my husband. I use the bigger one when the fam comes. They eat a lot! (smile) -----Original Message----- From: Cookinginthedark [mailto:cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org] On Behalf Of Jude DaShiell via Cookinginthedark Sent: Friday, February 21, 2020 11:04 AM To: Marie Rudys via Cookinginthedark Cc: Jude DaShiell Subject: Re: [CnD] Slow cooking One recipe for round steak in the slow cooker that was on this list and I consider tried and true had three ingredients. Round steaks, onions peeled and halved, and left over brewed coffee for the liquid. Makes a real tastey gravy and tenderizes the meat with the acid in the coffee. The crockpot and that's what those were called originally was invented by Rival just in time for World War II., and women doing work in Defense Plants bought them and used them regularly to feed themselves and their families when they got home from work. In my past I did lots of cooking with crockpots. The all metal slow cookers I have less confidence using. I had an Aroma and it died after three uses so wasn't well built. On Fri, 21 Feb 2020, Marie Rudys via Cookinginthedark wrote: > Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 13:47:50 > From: Marie Rudys via Cookinginthedark <cookinginthedark@acbradio.org> > To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org > Cc: Marie Rudys <marmusi...@gmail.com> > Subject: [CnD] Slow cooking > > Hello, everyone!! > > > > I have been using slow cookers for forty years, and never had any of > them burn up. > > They use no more power than a lightbulb, to be honest about it. > > That is why it is perfectly safe to let it do its job whether or not > you are > > Home. Low is around 250 degrees and high is > > 300 or so. Like a slow oven, really. > > I read that in the original Rival Crockpot Cookbook > > Back in the 1980's, and that information has stayed with me > > Ever since. I don't have to monitor it so closely, either. > > I never had a slow cooker boil over, either. It is not supposed to. > > > > Those of you who use one regularly know what I'm on about. > > I have gone out with the pot on low and when I got home tired, > > There is my food ready to eat. I never, ever had a > > Slow cooker catch fire or short out on me. Not one. > > I am cooking a roast now, with pearl onions and baby carrots > > And some potatoes. I did not put too much water > > In the bottom, because I know there will be more liquid as the meat > > Cooks. I am going to make some gravy from that. > > > > I use it at least once a month, when I > > Really want to slow cook something. > > > > The Hamilton Beach cooks slightly faster than the Rival > > I used to have back in the 1980's. But I just cook my roast the same > > Way I did back in those days. > > > > Marie > > > > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > -- _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
