I
was worried. The other day when I did my morning roll through of the
community room to see if it been any treats or anything left behind
on the sharing shelf I was startled and intrigued to see a very nice
slow cooker sitting there on the shelf. It was much smaller than the
unit I purchased earlier this year when I broke the other. The other
crockpot was just too large even though I still haven't I can't
figure out how to use it unless someone is to borrow it for a family
function or something. But this unit is exactly what I had in mind
and what I needed for me anyway, a single person cooking for myself.
Other than a little dust around the lead crockpot looks in perfect
condition.
Yesterday,
you'll remember the guilt that I had of taking the blue Walmart
basket home with me and I was going to take it back to the market. I
did that and while I was there I did some more shopping and sure
enough when it was time to go ahead number of items in my Big Blue
basket and I couldn't let it go. One of the items I got was a $13
roast which I guess a certain like to a half pounds. Think the cost
like four dollars odd sense a pound. With the cooler weather, clouds
and intermittent rain and fall starting tomorrow I figured why not do
a roast. I found one named Chuck. I brought Chuck home and threw them
in the refrigerator. I promise myself today I would cook Chuck
up-right.
I
really should've started much earlier today. I don't think I was
intimidated about the whole process think of just tired. Somewhere
during the night I dropped my cell phone and did not know that I had.
And through the deep hours of the night I started getting pings from
people sent me information Or messages or texts. I got one about 3 AM
and never really got back to sleep. But by lunchtime I had retrieved
enough energy to consider the roast. I figured I would have enough
time if I started somewhere around 12 or 1 PM and let the peace of
meat cook all afternoon. Getting ready for the cook took me longer
than I anticipated prepping the vegetables: peeling potatoes, carrots
the dicing both of them up into bite-size bits along with onions and
a smattering of other vegetables I had the need to use which would be
just right for a roast. Then, I put everything in the crockpot put
the lid on and plugged the pot in. Now for the were a part, I had a
plug-in for 10 or 20 minutes and when I checked on the outside of the
pot it was still pretty cold and I've looked inside still felt pretty
cold. I was worried that perhaps the plug-in didn't work either the
plug-in of the crockpot or the power strip I have in that corner the
kitchen for everything. On the other devices I have plugged into the
power trip are getting power so I figure maybe the pot doesn't work
so for a test I corrected on the high and one out in did a few things
and came back and sure enough, the outside of the crockpot was hot to
the touch– – It seemed to work at least “Hi” function did. I
turned the crockpot down to “Low” And when outside the afternoon
sun and read for a couple hours.
The
outside of the crockpot is hot to the touch which is good. However
the meat seems still fairly tough which is okay I understand it's
only been about five hours really want to cook at a good eight hours
and I'm still considering such. I'm using a bag to clean up should
not be too difficult.
Interestingly
my home health person indicated that I tend to worry too much, this
is not the first time I had heard this and I wonder if that's the
case are that I'm just a bit histrionic and talk about the possible
problems I think I might be having just a little too much either way
the crockpot works and having roast all week!
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