Crockpot (Was: Crackpot!)

[Carol]

Jen wrote: 
> Mmmm, I'm writing these down and buying a crockpot now.  How could I
live without one so far? One reason is our grocery store started 
stocking all these great pre-prepared main courses that you just pop
in the oven, like pot roast or pork loin.  Course they're probably
full of salt, additives etc., that are horrible, but that's why I
don't read the labels too closely.  The crockpot must be healthier and
only slightly more work it sounds like.  
> 
> Jen, not skilled in the domestic arts.

Carol responds:
Do I dare confess that I mostly live on yogurt, fishsticks, and frozen
dinners? It's not that I can't cook, it's that I don't see the point
of cooking a real meal when I don't have company and could be doing
something else (like composing elaborate posts for HPfGu). 

My crackpot, erm, crockpot, is about thirty years old and the control
has been dangling dangerously out of the metal part of the pot for,
oh, ten or eleven years now. I think I last used the crockpot about
fifteen years ago, when I moved into an apartment with virtually no
counterspace (not the same one I live in now). Maybe I should drag it
out again and try to fix it, or, failing that, actually buy a new one? 

Carol, who thinks microwaveable bacon is the best invention of the
last decade