re: Pot Roast - Chuck Roast (Photos)

Looks good. I have never cooked a roast without thawing prior to hitting the pot. Learn something new every day.

Crockpot would have been easier Mr. Dog.

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Meridian is is close to the same senerio

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Meridian is not well known for the dining excellences available here. IMO, even some of the interstate places are noticeably below their chain's standard level of acceptability.

Speaks strongly of the existence of a knowledge that captive diners pulling off the interstate for a meal make up the bulk of your customer base and an I don't care resulting attitude in the operation of your business.

Sad. Nothing worse than a captive audience cliental to bring out the worst in business practice.

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Crockpot would have been easier Mr. Dog.

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Honest truth. I have cooked this meal over a hundred times and never in the crock pot. About the only thing I ever do in the crock pot is Church covered dish supper soup or chili (pot keeps it warm on a church serving line) or make it - eat it - and forget it pulled pork. I guess we sometimes do red or white beans in the crock pot, but only about 50% of the time.

Occasionally we will buy a large package of stew meat and cook it in beef broth on the stove top - slowly with bay leaf, garlic and a whole onion, then after an hour or so - maybe more - when fork test shows it to be very tender, I will reduce the broth, or drain it away and add some Bullseye™ BBQ sauce to make BBQ Beef sandwiches. On a Friday night when you are traveling half way across Mississippi to watch the Grandkids play sports, there is no better feeling than having 20 of these guys in zip lock bags staying warm in an ice chest in the back of the truck. and a big bag of tater chips as an after the game, everything is closed and you need to drive from Natchez to Meridian treat. Don't even cook that in a crock pot even though I am sure you could.

I was intrigued with the whole Rib eye in the crock pot discussions that have taken place here, but then the wiser folks here assured me that both boiling and microwave produce better Rib eyes than the crock pot.

I am certain I have done lots of stuff that could have been done easier some other way.

(three good examples from my youth an 10 from the last week erased).

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fellow member on the byways of the zipper chested people

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I understand there is a method in limited use now where they go through a 1 inch window opened in the left side, between ribs #3 and #4 and do the bypass or valve replacement from that approach, negating the need to split (crack open) and wire back together the sternum.

I have four SS wires in my sternum repair. Still there. I carry plastic cards form St. Jude and Medtronics that tell TSA agents that I have an artificial valve, a pacemaker and pacemaker leads. They always ask if I would like to go behind a screen to be frisked and wand scanned after I set off the metal detector. I just laugh and say, "no".

Never been frisked by a lady agent.

Was surprised when I found out how many carbon filer heart valves St Jude sells a year.

My valve looks like this one

This is my pacemaker

My cardiologist discussed my preferred shotgun shoulder positioning before putting in my pacemaker. Really considerate I thought.

You are correct SD. The cards do little good at TSA checkpoint. Actually I would be disappointed if they accepted a plastic card and let me pass on through with no check.

What I think is funny is that some people would want a 15 second pat down body search to be performed in private. IMO, touch me, keep your hands moving and get it over. I do touch my pacemaker before the search and tell them, "what you're looking for is here."

IMO, they could care less that I or anyone else has a plastic card in their wallet. And that is the way it should be.