Crockpot (Was: Crackpot!)

[Jen Reese]

> 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). 

Jen: It would be bean nachos, cereal, peanut butter toast and 
smoothies for me if I lived alone.  I can always find other things to 
do besides cook!  But wait...you offer recipes on here, I can't even 
claim that much.  Are you like me in considering baking not actually 
cooking?  Because I *like* baking.

> 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? 

Jen:  LOL, well, my vote would be a new one rather than an 
unfortunate electrocution, but you can go on eating microwave meals, 
yogurt, and fishsticks and never hear a peep out of me.  
 
> Carol, who thinks microwaveable bacon is the best invention of the
> last decade

Jen: Yes, that and pre-washed and packaged salad greens and 
vegetables.