Wife's friend (a hard luck case) has been staying here for the last few months. She can not cook but thinks she can.
We had a pork roast in the freezer, and she dumped it (frozen solid, one large chunk) in the crockpot around 2 PM with like a gallon of water and onions (not chopped). She peeled the skin off and just popped 2 onions in the crockpot and potatoes too (not peeled, just large whole potatoes plopped in).
I asked if she thawed it out first or seared it. "I seared it and thawed it in the crockpot", she responded. I said you can't thaw meat out in a crockpot, as bacteria will form. It will stay lukewarm too long to inhibit bacteria growth. She said I was being paranoid.
Around 6, I pulled the lid off and it was smelly and tough not tender. It looked like a gray miserable piece of pork floating atop the water. And the smell was bad. I stuck a fork in it, and I had to push down hard to get the fork into it. I told her it wasn't safe to eat because it wasn't thawed out correctly. She said hogwash and proceeded to slice a chunk of it off and put a potato next to it. The potato was still hard. lol. Wife and I had a salad.
I attempted to tell her the proper way to cook it. Thaw out in fridge or at least season it and plop the frozen pork into the cast iron to thaw it out quickly, then let it cook all day in the crockpot with smaller pieces of potatoes. But she wouldn't listen to me. She cut me off and said her cooking works. Ha.
Last week, this lady made lasagna, and she didn't peel the garlic. I was picking out garlic skin. It was not good. She thinks she's an awesome cook.
We had a pork roast in the freezer, and she dumped it (frozen solid, one large chunk) in the crockpot around 2 PM with like a gallon of water and onions (not chopped). She peeled the skin off and just popped 2 onions in the crockpot and potatoes too (not peeled, just large whole potatoes plopped in).
I asked if she thawed it out first or seared it. "I seared it and thawed it in the crockpot", she responded. I said you can't thaw meat out in a crockpot, as bacteria will form. It will stay lukewarm too long to inhibit bacteria growth. She said I was being paranoid.
Around 6, I pulled the lid off and it was smelly and tough not tender. It looked like a gray miserable piece of pork floating atop the water. And the smell was bad. I stuck a fork in it, and I had to push down hard to get the fork into it. I told her it wasn't safe to eat because it wasn't thawed out correctly. She said hogwash and proceeded to slice a chunk of it off and put a potato next to it. The potato was still hard. lol. Wife and I had a salad.
I attempted to tell her the proper way to cook it. Thaw out in fridge or at least season it and plop the frozen pork into the cast iron to thaw it out quickly, then let it cook all day in the crockpot with smaller pieces of potatoes. But she wouldn't listen to me. She cut me off and said her cooking works. Ha.
Last week, this lady made lasagna, and she didn't peel the garlic. I was picking out garlic skin. It was not good. She thinks she's an awesome cook.
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