Comments on: My Veggietable Prison http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/11/29/my-veggietable-prison/ Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:03:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: sidswoorch http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/11/29/my-veggietable-prison/comment-page-1/#comment-74523 sidswoorch Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:34:11 +0000 http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/11/29/my-veggietable-prison/#comment-74523 I say skip the 'crock' and just go with the 'POT', if you know what I mean... *WIIIIINK* I say skip the ‘crock’ and just go with the ‘POT’, if you know what I mean…

*WIIIIINK*

]]> By: dreadpixie http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/11/29/my-veggietable-prison/comment-page-1/#comment-74520 dreadpixie Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:42:46 +0000 http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/11/29/my-veggietable-prison/#comment-74520 I hear they sell crock pot ready packaged stuff in the frozen section of the store. I hear they sell crock pot ready packaged stuff in the frozen section of the store.

]]> By: sidswoorch http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/11/29/my-veggietable-prison/comment-page-1/#comment-74512 sidswoorch Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:26:43 +0000 http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/11/29/my-veggietable-prison/#comment-74512 Now, if you had a car, and enjoyed excessive and pointless driving around, you could cook all your food on the engine! That way you could ruin the environment AND eat healthy! I recommend something with a V-12 engine like a Dodge Viper. I'm sure you could find one on Craigslist for about $60,000.00. And you call yourself committed to eating properly... Tsk, Tsk... Now, if you had a car, and enjoyed excessive and pointless driving around, you could cook all your food on the engine! That way you could ruin the environment AND eat healthy!

I recommend something with a V-12 engine like a Dodge Viper. I’m sure you could find one on Craigslist for about $60,000.00.

And you call yourself committed to eating properly… Tsk, Tsk…

]]> By: zdepthcharge http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/11/29/my-veggietable-prison/comment-page-1/#comment-74494 zdepthcharge Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:44:18 +0000 http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/11/29/my-veggietable-prison/#comment-74494 Low heat is for sissies. It might take some more experimentation Toren, but it will be worth it. Believe it or not, crock cooking is extremely simple and easy (especially compared to "real" cooking). Once you master the parameters of the crock cooking space it will cease to be a chore. Right now, since you're learning, you're brain is tracking many variables, unsure which ones are important and which are less so. Every step being new, is bigger than it is. Get over the initial learning curve and it will become effortless. Low heat is for sissies. It might take some more experimentation Toren, but it will be worth it. Believe it or not, crock cooking is extremely simple and easy (especially compared to “real” cooking). Once you master the parameters of the crock cooking space it will cease to be a chore. Right now, since you’re learning, you’re brain is tracking many variables, unsure which ones are important and which are less so. Every step being new, is bigger than it is. Get over the initial learning curve and it will become effortless.

]]> By: Toren http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/11/29/my-veggietable-prison/comment-page-1/#comment-74491 Toren Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:39:24 +0000 http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/11/29/my-veggietable-prison/#comment-74491 The recipes I've been using call for low heat, so that's what I've been using. Next time I'll try high and see what happens. I'm on the verge of getting fed up with the fickleness and minutia of it but I'll see these next few ideas through. The recipes I’ve been using call for low heat, so that’s what I’ve been using.

Next time I’ll try high and see what happens. I’m on the verge of getting fed up with the fickleness and minutia of it but I’ll see these next few ideas through.

]]> By: jess http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/11/29/my-veggietable-prison/comment-page-1/#comment-74490 jess Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:34:26 +0000 http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/11/29/my-veggietable-prison/#comment-74490 Sounds like your crock pot isn't getting hot enough. If full, it should get to a very slow boil in a few hours and then anything you put in to it should soften at about the pace it would in regular boiling water - certainly if it's on all day and you're not fussing with the lid nothing should be firm. Have you got it on the hottest setting? Frozen, cut veggies are awesome. Corn particularly freezes well, as do peas. Green beans not so much. Avoid stir fry mix, it always tastes weird. Sounds like your crock pot isn’t getting hot enough. If full, it should get to a very slow boil in a few hours and then anything you put in to it should soften at about the pace it would in regular boiling water – certainly if it’s on all day and you’re not fussing with the lid nothing should be firm. Have you got it on the hottest setting?

Frozen, cut veggies are awesome. Corn particularly freezes well, as do peas. Green beans not so much. Avoid stir fry mix, it always tastes weird.

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