It’s so obvious. So why didn’t I think of this genius no-stick crock pot solution before?
Though I’ve always used a slow-cooker liner in my Crock Pot, I never found it faultless. Even the premium brands. I find it difficult to remove the actual pot from the base, and then when I want to get rid of the cholent, it’s difficult to pull the whole liner out of the Crock Pot with no mess at all.
Of course, it’s infinitely easier than cleaning the Crock Pot without a liner, but I’m not going there.
Then, one week, after my mom had borrowed my Crock Pot, she brought it back to my house, complete with the liner already in there, ready for the cholent to go in.
And that week, there were no sticking problems. There was no problem of the liner sticking to the pot at the edges (making the pot hard to remove from the base), and when it was time to get rid of the cholent, I pulled it right out with no resistance.
“Mom, what did you do?”
“I sprayed it with PAM.”
OMG. Duh. Of course. She continued, “I remember, in 1977, being in my Aunt Adele’s house, and she was spraying all her pots before she cooked. She said that it made it easier to clean them after cooking. That was the first time I was introduced to PAM”
While I don’t know if PAM really helps with the pots, I thought this was fascinating. What did cooks ever do before cooking spray?
with Reynolds liners there’s no sticking at all… ever.
a little water between pot and liner, no issues!
yup…reynolds work perfectly without any water or spray
Ditto for the Reynolds!
I always put about two inches of water around the liner. Never had it stick
Lol! Vicky, I’ve been doing the Pam thing for years! Didn’t think it was genius till I saw your article. Now I feel pretty smart. ????????
I just spray my crockpot with Pam and put the cholent right in. No plastic cooking with my cholent and everything comes right off!
Haha! I primarily use Reynolds but have used others on occasion but they ALL stick. Since I learned this tip is has been so much easier to remove and serve the cholent! To those of you who never had stocking problems, lucky you! Hope this at least helps someone like it helped me.
whats with the bpa chemical in the plastics?
Reynolds slow cooker liners are BPA-Free.
How do you clean the cover?!?! That gets really dirty and sooooo hard to clean! Any tip? (I have the kind with the rubber.)
Line your crockpot with parchment paper! It comes straight out and cleaning is done in under 3 minutes, on the clock!