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A "crock pot".
1 minute research and now I know, what that is and that I don't need it.
1 minute research and now I know, what that is and that I don't need it.
^^^^^^A "crock pot".
1 minute research and now I know, what that is and that I don't need it.
potato/leek soup with bacon in a Slow Cooker (aka CrockPot) in December? Hell Yes!^^^^^^
True, I suppose. You don’t need it. But for cooking some things it’s hard to beat a slow cooker (Crockpot is a brand name). I have two of the things, the larger of which gets used a few times a year. Smoked pork hocks and beans slow cooked all day is a vision of heaven.
Not always, have you discovered the air fryer? At its core, an air fryer is a small, powerful convection oven. It uses a combination of rapid air technology and a high-speed fan to circulate hot air around the food. This process mimics the results of deep frying but with as much as 90% less oil.^^^^^^
True, I suppose. You don’t need it. But for cooking some things it’s hard to beat a slow cooker.
But the slow cookers were designed for meaty dishes, in the first place, to get the meat very tender, right? And of course, that you don't need to be at home/in the kitchen and got it ready for evening dinner.
So it's not for a pure vegetable stew or a potato soup, I guess?
I just cooked beef and noodles in mine yesterday, and let me tell you, it was pretty d**** good!^^^^^^
That’s perhaps the greatest appeal of the things. Toss in the ingredients, set it on “low,” go to work, hook up with your girl (or boy) on the side during lunch, knock back a couple of vodka-tonics, go back to work for a few hours, hit your favorite watering hole during happy hour, stumble back home to a hearty meal ready to go.
Life is so good in America.
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That’s perhaps the greatest appeal of the things. Toss in the ingredients, set it on “low,” go to work, hook up with your girl (or boy) on the side during lunch, knock back a couple of vodka-tonics, go back to work for a few hours, hit your favorite watering hole during happy hour, stumble back home to a hearty meal ready to go.
Life is so good in America.
You know you are getting old when the topic of conversation at a recent dinner gathering turned to “how do you know when it’s time to start looking for a retirement home/community to join that will take care of you in your declining years?” Goodness. Did that topic really come up at last nights holiday gathering? Whatever happened to “do not go gently into that goodnight”?
There were still millions of ex-flappers alive in the '80s, and most of them were somebody's disapproving grandmother.
I can't afford to travel the world so I don't know what the average day-to-day conditions are anywhere but within the self-imposed boundaries of my daily life, but here in the southwest corner of the continental U.S. they're still using credit/debit card machines that can/will read the magnetic strip on the back of the card or the chip on the front. I much prefer that to the "tapping" nonsense, and don't know exactly why that technology was created in the first place. I'd guess there's some form of added security associated with it, but if you're too lazy to simply put your payment card into a machine and remove it a second or two later, there's really something wrong with you.