Those recipes for stew and compote look lovely. I've never seen the point of cooking oatmeal in the crockpot overnight, when it's so easy to do on the stovetop while I'm getting showered and dressed. (That lets me keep half an eye on it for the last bit, so I can adjust proportions for the age of the grain.)
My big problem with overnight cooking is that the smell drives me crazy when I'm trying to sleep. Do you have a big enough house, with enough doors between your bed and the kitchen, for that not to be a problem? Or can you sleep through that kind of aroma? I mostly use the crockpot when I'm going to be out all day, or home doing something that doesn't need much concentration.
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Date: 2011-12-18 06:03 pm (UTC)My big problem with overnight cooking is that the smell drives me crazy when I'm trying to sleep. Do you have a big enough house, with enough doors between your bed and the kitchen, for that not to be a problem? Or can you sleep through that kind of aroma? I mostly use the crockpot when I'm going to be out all day, or home doing something that doesn't need much concentration.