Recent content by chriscal

Yes you could be right about leaving food around that long and we will be more careful. However the example I was using was just an example. If cooking meat from scratch we might actually start it much earlier on low so there isn't any waiting time. And where I live it isn't as if the ambient...

I see the problem now. The crock pot doesn't have a timer but we use a timer that plugs into the power and the pot plugs into that. You can get them at any hardware store. (Often wondered why crockpots didn't have a timer on the side). Now my wife leaves at 8am in the morning for work, we...

I also assumed that this meant that cooking should start right away so I adjusted the timer forward an hour to compensate. The cook book my wife was using has a lot of recipes where it looks like the cooking is meant to start immediately. Others make no reference to heating some ingredients as...

Been trying some recipes from a book. Sometimes you might find something like this - note all in one paragraph being perhaps point 6 .... 5. .... 6. Heat soup, fry vegetables, pour soup over vegetables in crock pot. Cook for 6 hours on low or 4 hours on high. 7. Serve over rice. This...