Archive for May, 2009

My Crock Pot Journey: The obsession grows

In my last post I went on and on about my newfound love for the Rival Crock Pot and how it was difficult for me to broach the subject with my poker buddies (ouch). I decided that for the sake of brevity, that i would hold back on some of the other stuff that was percolating in my brain at the time. Well, now seems like the right time – or at least as good a time as any to ramble on about what else I have noticed recently.

The Crock Pot. Yes it is a great time saver and is very easy to use, but I have become aware of just how much support there is for it out there; not only can you buy one of these marvels from the store take it home and start cooking with it, you can now go out and but yourself an impressive number of Rival crock pot accessories to assist you in your crock pot cooking efforts. You can go to the store (or shop online from the Rival company’s website) and get yourself extreme heat resistant tongs, spatulas, meat forks and ladels all specifically designed for use with your beloved crockery appliance! You can get yourself a meatrack for use with it too! Even a double boiler crock pot thingy which I’m not really clear on how it works but – whatever, it must have a use to be offering it to the Crock Pot nation, right?

They even have a kind of crock pot topper that lets you keep your sauces warm. Cool beans.

Of course there are also the protective or more transport-oriented things like the crock pot protective carrying case or the dust cover. They seem to have it all covered – no pun intended.

I guess the most obvious thing out there would have to be the plethora of crock pot cook books; there are so many that I am amazed that I never noticed them before!

Well, next time I will probabaly rant about poker and beer – just kidding, I will probably rant about poker, beer, and about how many people have decided to maintain their beloved crock pots than to go and buy another. Stay tuned.