Men vs Women - The Slow Cooker Wars

Would you put a fillet Mignon in this? Didn't think so.

At the risk of alienating my mostly female readership (and by the way, where were all of you in high school?), I'm going to really stir the pot today.  

I don't like crock pots.  Never have, probably never will.  And before you get all worked up, I gave it another honest shot two weeks ago from a recipe from one of my blogger friends / tribe mates, whatever called a Dr. Pepper Pot Roast.  

I like roasts.  I like Dr. Pepper.  Should be a hit, right?  But as the always wise-in-all-things-food Laura said, "Tastes like pot roast to me.  I like pot roast and you don't.  You didn't do anything wrong, you just don't like it."

And that's about it.  I just don't get the idea of putting meat in water to cook it.  Would you boil a steak?  Would you, god forbid, but bacon in there?  (Yes, I'm still pushing the bacon thing, going to beat it in the ground for sure).  But seriously, when did cooking meat in water become en vogue? This isn't Poland in the cold war.  We are an abundantly rich country that eats waaaay too much meat for our own good, shouldn't we at least prepare it right?

But then that might be the issue.  We are also a waaaay to lazy country.  And nothing says lazy like the crock pot.  Put in meat, add water, turn on, leave.  

Yes, I know, we are all busy, yada yada yada, but that doesn't mean we have to kill the taste of a nice roast does it?  And who knows, maybe its not a gender thing, because my dad loves pot roast as do many other guys I know. 

But what do a lot of us wannabe manly men prefer?

Old faithful.  Nothing comes out of here less than scrumptious

The smoker.  Hmmmmmm.  Meat cooked slowly over smoke is to die for and exceptionally easy to boot.  There's more set up time than a crock pot, but if you are lazy, once you are set up, you can walk away just like the crock pot.  And the flavor.  My goodness, its almost impossible not to have incredible mouth watering, tender, perfect meat come out 6 or 8 hours later. 

Plus, if you're a wannabe manly man, you get to play with charcoal.  And if you do like to fidget with fire, you can spend as much time as you want pushing the coals around while you drink a beer and talk football.   

So its a win win.  Better flavor, better food and you still have all day to run errands at Linens N' Stuff or stare at the fire and talk about that game in 11th game you almost won...

cheers all, have a great weekend