Word to the wise: When a recipe says 6-8 hours, it’s a direction, not a suggestion.
This is my attempt at Slow Cooker Orange Chicken (if you click on the link, you’ll see how it was intended to appear) after sitting in the crock-pot for 10 hours. So instead of coming home to a scrumptious dinner, I ate a soy corndog. I think I’ll stick with desserts.
29 Comments
January 16, 2008 at 6:50 pm
did you toss it or was some salvagable? I have done the same thing and ended up shredding the meat, tossing with salsa, cheese and beans and making improvised burritos….just a thought…:)
January 16, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Matt tried a bite and turned a pale shade of green, so I tossed the rest. The dog was livid.
January 16, 2008 at 7:17 pm
My one year old is sitting on my lap and when the picture came up she said, “That gross, eww” I laughed so hard after our little brag worthy food posts today. Suggestion. I’ll remember that. I can’t stop giggling. I’m glad that your in my Google reader so that it arrived right away.
January 16, 2008 at 7:36 pm
I’m glad this meal was at least good for a laugh
January 16, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Allison is leaving out one very important fact. So, as Paul Harvey would say, “And now, the rest of the story.” When we arrived home and looked at the contents in the crock pot, I thought to myself, “There is no way on God’s green earth that we will be eating that.” However, I said nothing and waited for Allison’s thoughts. She glanced inside and said, “Hmm, I think just the bbq sauce burned. It looks fixable.” Luckily for us all, she came to her senses soon after. Luckily I did not marry you for your non-sweets cooking. Instead, it was for your brain, beauty, sense of humor, common sense, and many other qualities that I admire.
January 16, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Oh….my. That is a scary sight to behold. And it is a very good illustration of why I am scared of the crock pot. When crock pot meals go bad, they go very bad.
Matt, I think you get major points for even trying that. Wow.
January 17, 2008 at 7:00 am
Terrifying picture. Matt gets points for being a wise husband with his measured initial response and bonus points for trying even a bite.
January 17, 2008 at 9:41 am
i’ve never seen anyone incinerate food in a crock-pot. How did you pull that off? Impressive.
January 17, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Does the soy corn dog have a funny name like snosage or tofurkey?
January 17, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Kudos! to you for having the courage to post photos of your “masterpiece.” That is very brave. And very hilarious.
I’ve never owned a crock pot. I’m kind of intimidated by them… as well as scared that I’d somehow manage to burn my house down if I left something cooking all day!
January 17, 2008 at 4:39 pm
You’d be surprised at how easy it is to mangle a meal- all you have to do is completely disregard the instructions, throw in a touch of impatience, and get distracted by the computer/tv/child/mail when you should be tending to the food.
Matt’s handling of every aspect of the situation was perfect.
I don’t think the soy corn dog has a funny name, but I do get called funny names at the office for eating them.
January 17, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Now, I see that picture and I think, she should have used the Reynolds Slow Cooker Liners, so at least clean up would have been a snap.
January 17, 2008 at 7:54 pm
SLOW COOKER LINERS?!? I had no idea such a thing existed.
January 18, 2008 at 2:30 am
Oh no! I really hate when I spend all that time on something and it’s ruined. Dang it!
January 18, 2008 at 9:33 am
Oh yes, there are slow cooker liners.
http://www.alcoa.com/reynoldskitchens/en/product.asp?cat_id=1337&prod_id=3200
I kept seeing the commercials and since I use the crock pot at least once a week, I finally broke down and bought some. Used it for the first time last week and now I swear by them!
January 18, 2008 at 1:04 pm
It kinda looks like lava, doesn’t it?
January 18, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Thanks for the sympathy iwright
Jenefur- I took longer to clean the crock pot than it did to prepare the food for the crock pot. I will check out those liners.
Runlikemad- Now that you mention it, it does kind of resemble lava. Yuck!
January 19, 2008 at 8:10 pm
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January 20, 2008 at 2:13 am
Did you figure out what went wrong?
January 20, 2008 at 2:15 am
I haven’t used a crock pot since my early married days in 1978. Gee, maybe this is a good reason not to try again!
January 20, 2008 at 6:55 am
I cooked it 2-4 hours too long
January 20, 2008 at 11:27 am
Yikes. If I were you, I’d totally have cried.
January 20, 2008 at 12:34 pm
I’m accustomed to this kind of outcome
January 21, 2008 at 4:08 am
Thats a scary looking meal!
February 11, 2008 at 4:46 am
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February 19, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Wow, that’s nasty looking!
These are the kind of results I get even on the rare occasions I actually follow the instructions.
It was nasty to clean too!
February 19, 2008 at 12:42 pm
wow.
I believe recipes are merely suggestions but my stuff usually turns out good.
Am slightly green with envy.
March 17, 2008 at 5:16 pm
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March 19, 2008 at 2:47 pm
This is a rather delayed response but might I just add … what’s with the baby blue crock pot insert?! Does any food really ever look good in there?
Although you had a lava disaster on your hands, I’d put 40% of the horror off to pure esthetics, leaving you with only 60% of the responsibility responsibility for the ruined dish.
Potato soup looks quite attractive to me with the blue background. I think it reminds me of the scene with the blue soup in Bridget Jones’ Diary….I suppose that’s an odd reason to like the appearance of blue soup. What am I- a smurf?