A Crock-Pot is great for Beef Stew, Pot Roast, Chili, Soups, and Chicken dinners. All is takes is a little prep work the night before to get all of the ingredients into the liner of the Crock-Pot. During the hustle and bustle of the morning, I take the stonewear liner out of the refrigerator, put it into the Crock-Pot and let it cook!
Now I have had a few mishaps on my perfectly planned dinners. Like the one when I had the corned beef all ready to go and in the Crock Pot while I left for work. To my surprise when I arrived home nine hours later, I did not smell the amazing scent of cooked corned beef. I found a Crock-Pot that I had forgotten to plug in and hence a large piece of meat that ended up in the garbage can.
Who invented this amazing appliance? Well it appears that Rival introduced their first Crock-Pot on 1971. It became an instant hit with housewives across America and Rival re-designed their Crock-Pot in 1974 to include the removable stonewear liner. After only 10 years, sales of the Crock-Pot rose to $30 million dollars.
The Crock-Pot is not as popular as it once was, however as more and more families are watching their budgets very tightly these days, I believe the Crock-Pot is once again gaining popularity! It is a very economical way to give your family a wonderful, healthy, hot meal!
Want an easy pot roast recipe? Place your roast in your Crock-Pot and pour one can of cream of mushroom soup over the roast. Then sprinkle one packet of onion soup mix on top. Let cook on low for 8 hours. Even better? Place carrots under the roast while it cooks, you will have delicious tender carrots and meat in a great gravy!
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Gosh I just assumed they had been around a lot longer. I know some of those original crockpots are still in use ...I see them at church dinners.
ReplyDeleteI love my crock pot!