How, you say. How could anyone covet something as mundane as a Crock Pot? Well, when you already own several working Crocks you don’t need another one. Or do you? This new Crock takes crockery cooking to the sublime level – and I don’t mind sharing with our readers, that I have already let the interested parties know what they can gift me with should they so desire. . .
Oh my – this is right up there with my new sewing machine that I saved and saved for. You program in what kind of food you are cooking, and when you want it done, it does the rest. Gives me goosebumps!
This description comes from the Crock Pot website:
Details & Features
The Crock-Pot® Slow Cooker featuring Smart Cook™ Technology is the ultimate in convenience and style. No longer feel restricted to what days you use your slow cooker or what cook times fit your lifestyle. The Smart Cook™ Technology allows you to select your “Ready At” time and your protein type and then it does all the thinking for you. Food will cook to the optimal temperature to be ready when you want it to be. Recipes that normally call for 6-8 hours can be extended for up to 12 hours, while recipes with 10-12 hour recommendations can be shortened to 6 hours. This slow cooker’s modern design is evident with a polished, stainless steel exterior and stylish metal handles with a silicone wrap. Manual controls include Low, High, and Warm cook settings to adapt to more delicate recipes that require shorter cooking times. When the “Ready At” time has arrived, this slow cooker automatically shifts over to a convenient keep-warm mode. The cooking indicator and keep warm indicator lights offer at-a-glance convenience. Serving your dish is effortless. The 6.5-quart, removable stoneware provides a smooth transition from countertop to tabletop; no other dishes necessary. Plus, the stoneware and glass lid are dishwasher-safe, making clean up quick and easy.
Features:
- Smart Cook™ Technology allows you to select your “Ready At” time and your protein type allowing the slow cooker to do the rest of the work for you
- 6-8 hour recipes can be extended for up to 12 hours & 10-12 hour recipes can be shortened to 6 hours
- Slow cooker automatically shifts to convenient keep-warm mode when cooking is complete
- 6.5 quart capacity, serves 7+ people
- At-a-glance cooking and keep warm indicator lights included
- BONUS: Cookbook with over 25 delicious recipes specific for this slow cooker.
- Polished stainless steel exterior
- Stylish metal handles with silicone wrap
- Removable oval stoneware
- Dishwasher-safe stoneware and glass lid
Please don’t think we get any kind of remuneration for featuring this – I just try however I can to help home school moms in their challenging mission to do it all and not crumble under the stress. Crockery cooking is one of the best ways to accomplish everything, save money, and reduce stress all around. The newer crocks have a “keep warm” feature, that stops the cooking process, but will enable any late arrivals at your house for dinner (like husbands that work overtime, or teens that have part-time jobs) to have a really great, hot meal, rather than microwaved leftovers. And lets face it – sometimes we are too tired to cook up a fabulous dinner in the late afternoon or early evening after a full day of home schooling and home keeping. If dinner is already made – you’ve got it made!
EASY CROCK POT PORK CHOPS
I frequently buy huge packages of pork chops on sale at SAM’s Club. I repackage it when I get home, putting about 7 chops in each package. Very often, the packages of chops are so huge – that I can make each of these recipes twice from the one huge purchase. Uber thrifty!
One of the packs gets breaded and pan fried with this coating:
- 1/3 cup cornmeal
- 1/3 cup rye flour
- 1/3 cup raw wheat germ
- 1 teaspoon kosher or sea salt
Mix a couple of eggs with a small amount of milk, dipping each chop into batter and then into wheat germ breading mixture. Fry until no longer pink inside.
With one of the packs of chops, I remove any bones, and cook the chops on low in crock pot for about 10 hours with onions and barbecue sauce. The chops shred effortlessly after this, and are piled onto buns for pulled pork sandwiches. So easy and good!
With another of the packs of chops, I place one sliced onion in the bottom of crock, top with chops, and then top with two undiluted cans of tomato soup. Bake on high for 4-6 hours, or low for 8-10 hours. Everyone loves this – even people who don’t like pork chops.
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