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Head Chef
I recently got a hand-me-down 4 quart Sears crock pot. It has a low and high setting. It's the kind that doesn't have a removable pot. Anyways, I have noticed that it doesn't seem to cook as well as my old little 1.5 quart crock pot (this one just had on/off setting).
I cooked a pound of pinto beans w/ 1 can of whole tomatoes, 1 diced onion, 6 cloves minced garlic & 2 handful of crumbled bacon. I turned it on before I went to work (about 8am) and got home about 5pm and found that the beans weren't as soft as they needed to be still. It's now 10pm and some of the beans still haven't cooked all the way to the point of soft baked beans. Now is it just the machine? Or is it me? I put enough water in the pot to cover + about 2 inches. Should I have put more water in it??
My old tiny crock pot, it would have been done by the time I got home and I didn't have to worry about water level. On the tiny crockpot it seemed like whatever I did, it was ok. I made beans almost 1x a week before w/ no problems.
Thoughts???
I cooked a pound of pinto beans w/ 1 can of whole tomatoes, 1 diced onion, 6 cloves minced garlic & 2 handful of crumbled bacon. I turned it on before I went to work (about 8am) and got home about 5pm and found that the beans weren't as soft as they needed to be still. It's now 10pm and some of the beans still haven't cooked all the way to the point of soft baked beans. Now is it just the machine? Or is it me? I put enough water in the pot to cover + about 2 inches. Should I have put more water in it??
My old tiny crock pot, it would have been done by the time I got home and I didn't have to worry about water level. On the tiny crockpot it seemed like whatever I did, it was ok. I made beans almost 1x a week before w/ no problems.
Thoughts???