{"id":4551,"date":"2021-09-13T15:49:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T20:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/?p=4551"},"modified":"2021-09-13T15:49:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T20:49:23","slug":"happy-belated-birthday-crock-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/happy-belated-birthday-crock-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Belated Birthday, Crock-Pot!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Join me in wishing your crock-pot a happy belated birthday. About a week ago, this slow cooking device turned 50. Well, technically the device itself is a little over 80, but its incarnation with the name crock-pot<\/a> began in 1971. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019ll confess that I primarily use my crock-pot for parties.\nI\u2019ve owned the brand name and something similar that doubled as a griddle. Both\nwork similarly. They cook food at a slow pace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My first crock pot lived in my college dorm room. We used it\nto make cheese dip out of cheddar cheese soup and RotelR tomatoes and peppers\nthat we greedily dipped original Doritos into. While the thought of that cheese\ndip now makes me cringe, I miss the buttery flavor of those original tortilla\nchips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, came the wedding gift crock pots. I think I received three. One was huge. I still have it. As much as I like one pot meals, you\u2019d think I would have put a lot of miles on these pots through the years. I haven\u2019t, which seems odd since I love one pot meals<\/a>. I think it\u2019s because I view one pot meals as something quick I can throw together last minute. Crock-pot cooking requires forethought. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps that\u2019s why many of us opt for the convenience of\nfast food rather than the convenience of a crock-pot. But there\u2019s no question\nthat crock-pot cooking can be healthy and easily adapted to any dietary\nrestriction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a recent convert to braised beef, which I\u2019ve discovered\nis much like my grandmother\u2019s pressure-cooked beef, I increasingly appreciate\nslow cooking. It\u2019s great for pulled pork, ham & beans, chili, and vegetable\nsoup. The home economists who developed recipes for the crock-pot swear it\u2019s the\nbest way to bake cheesecake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It can also be used to bake pineapple upside down cake,\nchocolate lava cake, banana nut cake, and breakfast foods like cinnamon rolls, French\ntoast casserole, and scrambled or boiled eggs. Clearly, I have not allowed my\ncrock-pot to fulfill its potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like any small electric appliance, part of that is due to access. A crock-pot is the kind of thing that needs a place to live that\u2019s convenient or I forget to use it. Out of sight, out of mind, I guess and mine lives near the back of a shelf in a closet in the dining room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems fitting to attempt a cake in the crock-pot to\ncelebrate its birthday. Although I\u2019d love to test that claim that it makes the\nbest cheesecake. And I used to ask for lemon meringue pie for my birthday, so birthday\ncake doesn\u2019t have to be birthday cake!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, I\u2019d like to salute Irving Naxon who patented the Naxon Beanery that became the crock-pot. He created an efficient way to slow-cook food that costs only pennies a day to operate and does not heat up the house. His machine may not have been a commercial success until it was bought by Rival, but without him we might not be able to buy one of the 12 million units that are still sold each year \u2013 50 years later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, thank you Irving Naxon and happy belated birthday, crock-pot! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Join me in wishing your crock-pot a happy belated birthday. About a week ago, this slow cooking device turned 50. Well, technically the device itself is a little over 80, but its incarnation with the name crock-pot began in 1971. I\u2019ll confess that I primarily use my crock-pot for parties. I\u2019ve owned the brand name … Continue reading “Happy Belated Birthday, Crock-Pot!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3089,2695,3092,3088,3091,3090],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4555,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions\/4555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cooking2thrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}