I finally broke down and bought a crock pot.  I can actually technically say crock pot, since crock pot is a proprietary term coined by Rival, the company who started the craze back in 1971, and that’s the brand I’ve got in my meaty clutches.   I had very little desire for one of these contraptions until we had a horrendous week-long heat wave in Seattle last July.  Since it’s Seattle and we hold steady in the temperate high 70’s for most of the summer, no one owns an air conditioner.  Consequently when the heat wave hit, everyone was ducking for cover in malls, lakes, pools, even staying late and arriving early at the office each day since a/c is like a mandate in the corporate office building world. 

Read more