And welcome to the Eat This Not That Podcast, brought to you by Bob's Red Mill.

I'm John Hammond, and this is Megan Murphy.

Hi, everyone.

And in this episode, we're going to go deep into one of probably the easiest ways to get a crowd-pleasing meal on the table, not fast, but easy.

And that's your slow cooker, right?

I mean, who doesn't love the slow cooker?

And here in the Northeast, where we are, it's definitely fall.

Yeah, it's like slow cooker season.

And it's slow cooker season, right?

And what is your favorite thing about cooking in a slow cooker?

Well, there's many things, but the way it makes my apartment smells. That's it. Like all day long.

If you ask nine out of ten people, I will bet you money that nine out of ten people would have the same answer, right? Yeah. And it's so easy. I love the way, like when I cook chicken thighs, they just fall off the bone. They're so tender. Or pork, make pulled pork. Like, it's unbelievable. There's no other way that I personally could make it that easy in that tender.

It's fantastic.

And especially, tender or pork make pulled pork like it's unbelievable there's no other way that i personally could

make it that easy in that tender it's is fantastic and especially like there's there's this so

definitely the sense the way it fills the house because like low and slow all day long it just

fills your house with those scents and dinner and just it's just mouth watering for an entire day

and look if and there's the convenience factor, right?

Yep. If you are on the go all day long, maybe no one's home all day. It's a very, you know,

get everything set, low heat all day long. What is better than walking in your front door or your

back door, however you come home, getting hit immediately with the scent of dinner and know that it's ready. Yeah. Like there's no, there's no prep. There's no getting, like how many pots in this and that and who's cooking one? No, just get a ladle or a fork or whatever it is that you're dishing out. Get a plate in a bowl and bang, dinner is on the table. It drives my poor dog crazy though. Yeah, right. He's part beagle. His nose is amazing. So that thing is cooking for like eight hours than me. It's driving him crazy. He knows when the neighbors have a slow cooker going, let alone when it's in his own house. Exactly. But, you know, the benefit of the slow cooker, the convenience is also kind of the challenge of the slow cooker, as we're going to see here in

this episode, because it's so easy, because it's so convenient, there are a lot of mistakes

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