The fugly crockpot

My husband found this retro beauty at his office today. Since we're all about crockpot lately, he had to take this picture and send it to me!
His exact quote was:
"it's in the kitchen.
Compared to yours...this one is FUGLY and tiny!"

This one looks like it's worth its weight in gold, judging by the wear :)

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Crockpot mania!

So I succumbed and ordered a crockpot. I purchased a 6qt model with a temperature probe that reminds me of old times in organic chemistry lab, and regardless how others feel, to me those are happy memories. This Hamilton Beach Set 'n Forget 6-Quart Programmable Slow Cooker is great, the probe is not just fancy looking but it works wonders.
So far I’ve only tried cooking two things, cola chicken that I picked up on this recipe at bigoven.com and a whole rotisserie chicken. For the coke chicken I used frozen chicken breasts and I added chopped onions; it was delicious!, I’m so proud. DH loved the chicken, and he’s a picky eater. The whole chicken was great as well, but nothing out of the ordinary, I placed balls of aluminum foil under the chicken to make it more “rotisserie like”; however, it came out a little bit too white, so I popped it in the oven at broiler setting for five minutes to brown and it was perfect.
I’m very excited about the crockpot; all the raves about spending little time in the kitchen are true, absolutely minimal work. And there are tons of recipes online. I love bigoven.com and Stephanie O’Dea’s blog, which is totally amazing, she’s even got recipes for crockpot yogurt!
Next, I’m planning to try meatloaf, let’s see how that comes out.

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