[Sca-cooks] OOP - help my stews!

[Susan Lin]

We use our crockpots all the time..  I do not find a bitter taste but other
have given you ideas on how to avoid that.  I've even used mine to make
glace (pardon the missing accent) chesnuts ( a favorite of my mother).

As for cooking and having a dinner ready at home.  Mine has a timer and then
goes to "warm" so the food stays warm but doesn't really continue to cook.
If yours doesn't have that feature there should be nothing wrong with
cooking on low for a longer period of time.  I have never had the meat go
"off" if I do this and I have done it for years.

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Dan Brewer <danqualman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bitterness is caused by the garlic powder and rosemary over a long cooking
> period.  Add the rosemary just berfore serving and user real garlic.
>  Trader
> joes has some that has been grated and frozen in 1 tsp sizes all aranged in
> a plastic tray  so it is easy to use.  And no onions  .  When you brown the
> meat you add another dimension to the stew .  It also starts the rue and
> thickens your gravey .
>
> Dan in Auburn
>
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Amy Cooper <amy.s.cooper at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > So today I made a crockpot stew, and yet again, I'm highly
> > disappointed in how it tastes. There's a bitter edge, and I always
> > find that with my stews, plus I find the beef isn't really moist. It
> > falls apart, but feels dry to eat. I'll list my ingredients below -
> > then can ya'll tell me what I'm doing wrong?
> >
> > Stew beef (30% off club pack)
> > flour
> > water
> > fresh white button mushrooms
> > frozen baby carrots (put in frozen)
> > garlic powder (forgot the real garlic and onion this time)
> > pinch of dried rosemary
> > half a small bag of skin on random baby potatoes - some red, some
> > blue, some yukon gold
> >
> > The flour was in a slurry with some of the water - maybe 3 heaping TB?
> >
> > This all cooked in the crockpot for about 5 or 6 hours on low, and a
> > little while on high. I did NOT brown the beef first - this was to be
> > quick and easy, and not generate lots of pans to wash *sigh*.
> >
> > So it tastes icky - even my adventurous baby didn't want much for
> > dinner. Smelled GREAT while cooking, but just doesn't taste right....
> >
> > Thanks - I HATE wasting ingredients like this :-(
> >
> > Ilsebet
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