I'd Like to Give A Shout Out to the Inventor of the Crockpot!

I'd like to give a shout out to the inventor of the Crockpot! What a truly remarkable invention! Simply throw any type of meat and veggies into it in the morning before you go to work, turn it on and when you get home from work and open that door, your kitchen smells like your own private chef has been toiling away all day preparing a wonderful meal for you!

Notice I said turn it on as part of the directions. It's an important step. Once I threw in meat and veggies early in the morning and forgot to turn it on. It does not have the same effect. I came home to a kitchen without wonderful smells and a vessel full of room temperature, raw meat and veggies. Not what I was going for...

And now they make crockpots with lid locks so you can batten down the hatches and travel with the crockpot without spilling its contents! This came in especially handy yesterday. My Mom provided the place for Christmas dinner and I brought all the food. Along for the ride came a huge crockpot with a huge roast and a big (but not huge) crockpot with a turkey breast. They were nestled in appropriately sized boxes for stability but it was nice to know that if for some reason they should tip, veggies and meat and onion soup mix and cream of mushroom soup and chicken broth would not spew forth and cover all of the Christmas gifts that were also packed strategically in the back of our car. That would NOT be a Christmas miracle!

As a side note, this would not be appropriate for air travel. Just in case you were thinking about it.

Have you seen the variety of crockpots out there? They even make multiple crockpots with three or four crockpots all in one! I was intrigued. But with the exception of very infrequent, large gatherings, I couldn't envision using four crockpots at once very often. But they look really cool. And the colors! You can get crockpots in virtually every color of the rainbow in addition to patterns and even camo! Yes, I spend some time in the crockpot aisle.

I'd also like to give a shout out the Reynolds company for inventing Slow Cooker Liners. No more messy clean up! I am trusting you, Reynolds company. Trusting that you have run exhaustive tests to determine beyond a shadow of a doubt, that your product is safe and will not taint our cooking!!

Thank you Hamilton Beech, Oster, Crockpot and all the other makers of crockpots and slow cookers for making me seem more talented than I really am when it comes to cooking! And thank you Reynolds for making the clean up a breeze!

Keep on smiling!