D.C. Area Nesties
Kewliegirl
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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Random: Does your CrockPot (brand) boil?
Dear Slow Cookers,
I have had a Rival CrockPot for a bazillion years -- it was my first "appliance" I bought. A few years ago, I realized that mine had been recalled for handles or something. Rival replaced the metal base (but not the ceramic pot and lid). I swear that this new pot gets much, much hotter, and my foods get "darker," quicker than the previous base. It has three dial settings: off, low and high.
I am currently doing some chicken and it is on high. The barbeque sauce is doing a decently rapid boil. Is mine normal? Does the replaced version get hot? Maybe I just never really used High before? Whatchew got?
Cauldron boil,
kewliegirl
Re: Random: Does your CrockPot (brand) boil?
It'll sorta do that pop/bubble thing but never a rolling boil on high. Low setting never boils or has the sauce up the sides brown.
And as for all the other settings - I'm too lazy/stupid to figure them out.
Dear Cheeky,
Huh. I hadn't thought of the wiring. Our old house was built in 1919ish, this one is much newer. But, also, my Google-fu research shows I am not the only one with a hotter replacement. In'neresting.
PITA,
kewliegirl
My crockpot definitely boils, but it does it on both the high and low settings :-( It basically cooks the hell out of everything and I need to replace it. Oh and the glaze on the liner in mine is cracking, too. (I can't remember the brand and I'm too lazy to go downstairs and check right now.) A couple weeks ago I tried slow cooking a 3 lb roast to slice up to make french dip sandwiches and it's a good thing I had the au jus for the sandwiches because that was some dry, tough beef. blech.
My crockpot is about 6 years old, but I didn't really start using it much until we moved into this house, so only 4 years. My mom's old crockpot that she bought in the early 80s works beautifully. I used it at her house last winter and couldn't believe how much slower (in a good way) it cooked things.
for this reason, i am going to steal my grandma's crockpot from the late 70s/early 80s!
this exactly...i can't use mine and leave the house bc it burns EVERYTHING!!! its on my list to research a good new one, but i'm bummed bc mine was kind of $$ but it seems that the cheaper basic ones work better and don't scorch everything....