We all know how easy it is to use a slow cooker to make dinner, but the clean up can be a time-consuming job. We recently found the Reynolds Slow Cooker liners at the grocery store, WalMart, etc. They have probably been on the market for a while, but we just realized how easy they make cleanup.
Put one in the slow cooker pot, put your food in it. When the meal is finished, the liner goes in the garage, then I wipe out the crock pot just to be sure it is clean and the job is done. They are quite inexpensive, especially taking into account all the time and trouble I encountered trying to get the pot clean. Because they are so easy to use, we use the crock pot much more often.
By HJ from Delaware
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There have been tips on this site about putting a fabric softener sheet in a pan with baked on food and let it soak overnight. I wonder if they would work on a crockpot?
This is a great article and will be very useful not only to me but to anyone who cooks with a crockpot. I use mine constantly in the summer because it doesn't heat the house up like the stove and oven do.
Which is another thing. You put in the article to use it outside in summer to keep the house cool. Why? The only area that gets hot around my crockpot is the pot itself. One inch away and the air around it is cool. No need to take it outside.
One thing I use mine for in late fall is to start cooking up big batches of soups and chili. I cook up huge batches and then put them into individual size containers to go in the freezer. This way I have soups and chili handy for those cold winter nights when I don't feel like cooking but don't want to go out either. When it's cold outside there's not much that beats a bowl of hot soup or chili!
When I make the soups (I make chicken, stew beef, ground beef, and turkey so I have 4 different basic varieties) I make basic soups with broth, spices, vegetables and the meat. Then when I want to fix one, I can either eat it like it is or I can add potatoes, noodles, rice and/or thicken it up for stew, or even thicken it up more and put it over the potatoes, noodles or rice. I can alter it any number of ways depending on my mood!
Yes, Galthomas, the fabric softener sheets do work in crockpots. But what I do is just put some hot water in it with dish soap, put it on low and let it cook all night. In the morning all I have to do is dump the dirty water out and give it a quick swipe and rinse and it's clean.
This works great if the crockpot has really gotten a lot of foods stuck in it bad. But mostly I just use a wash cloth and wipe it out good after it cools. I rarely have to do the overnight thing, but the few times I have it's worked great.
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