I like cooking beef in the crockpot......I layer the crockpot with baby
carrots,,,,,put in the roast,,,,,add an envelope of onion soup,,,,and yet I
find the meat dry.
What am I doing wrong? Should I brown the roast first? add liquid?
I have a boneless blade pot roast?
I appreciate your help.
Sandy

"sandy" wrote in
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I like cooking beef in the crockpot......I layer the crockpot with
baby carrots,,,,,put in the roast,,,,,add an envelope of onion
soup,,,,and yet I find the meat dry.
What am I doing wrong? Should I brown the roast first? add liquid?
I have a boneless blade pot roast?
I appreciate your help.
Sandy

More than likely your roast is too lean. Juicy roasts really should be
well-marbled with rat. And, yes, it's a good idea to brown the roast
first...not to prevent dryness, but to enhance flavor.

Wayne

Never anonymous Bud wrote in
:

While still snuggled in a 'spider hole', Wayne Boatwright
scribbled:

More than likely your roast is too lean. Juicy roasts really should be
well-marbled with rat.

I leave the rats for my cat, and use fatty meat in the crockpot...



Damn that spell-checker! Doesn't it know what I mean? G

in article , sandy at
wrote on 1/18/04 6:03 PM:

I like cooking beef in the crockpot......I layer the crockpot with baby
carrots,,,,,put in the roast,,,,,add an envelope of onion soup,,,,and yet I
find the meat dry.
What am I doing wrong? Should I brown the roast first? add liquid?
I have a boneless blade pot roast?
I appreciate your help.
Sandy

Yes, you should most definitely brown the meat first. It will add so much
flavor! Also, saute some sliced onions, too. In addition to the onion soup
mix. You should add no more than half a cup (4 ounces) of
liquid....preferably something with a lot of flavor, such as wine, stock,
tomato sauce, but with onion soup mix, water is ok.

What cut of meat do you use? Dryness usually means the meat was too lean.
Get a fatty cut of meat, such as chuck shoulder, brown it in a skillet, put
it on top of your baby carrots, add the sauteed onions, your onion soup mix,
and the half cup of water. You should have excellent pot roast after 7-8
hours in a crockpot. Also, the meat should be a "tough" cut, like chuck,
because the collagen in the muscles, which makes it tough, will melt after
that long cooking period, and it too will add flavor and moisture to the
meat.

Actually, I just re-read...boneless blade pot roast is PERFECT for this!!!!
It should not be dry at all....try it again, with the changes I suggested
and let us know on RFC how it turns out! I wish I could find boneless blade
roasts! They cut them up for steaks around here, so we rarely get them
whole, but the roast is something really special, braised!

Wayne Boatwright wrote in
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Juicy roasts really should be
well-marbled with rat.

Hopefully that's a typo and means well-marbled with fat instead.,

--
Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food
and water.
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FIELDS, W. C.

"Sheryl Rosen" wrote in message
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in article , sandy at
wrote on 1/18/04 6:03 PM:

You should add no more than half a cup (4 ounces) of
liquid....preferably something with a lot of flavor, such as wine, stock,
tomato sauce, but with onion soup mix, water is ok.
This is usually what I do and I'll add a couple bullion cubes as well.

Thanks,,,,,,I will definitely try browning roast 1st,,,and adding some
liquid,,and sauteed onions.
Will let you know.

"Sami" wrote in message
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"Sheryl Rosen" wrote in message
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in article , sandy at
wrote on 1/18/04 6:03 PM:

You should add no more than half a cup (4 ounces) of
liquid....preferably something with a lot of flavor, such as wine,
stock,
tomato sauce, but with onion soup mix, water is ok.
This is usually what I do and I'll add a couple bullion cubes as well.

sandy wrote:
I like cooking beef in the crockpot......I layer the crockpot with
baby carrots,,,,,put in the roast,,,,,add an envelope of onion
soup,,,,and yet I find the meat dry.
What am I doing wrong? Should I brown the roast first? add liquid?
I have a boneless blade pot roast?
I appreciate your help.
Sandy

As others will have said, brown the roast in a large skillet first. And
yes, add about 1/3 - 1/2 c. of beef broth or at the very least water. Red
wine is a nice addition and the alcohol cooks away.

Jill

hahabogus wrote in
:

Wayne Boatwright wrote in
:

Juicy roasts really should be
well-marbled with rat.

Hopefully that's a typo and means well-marbled with fat instead.,


What? You never had a beef roast well-marbled with rat? Well, maybe in a
restaurant, who knows. Uh, yeah, my spell-checker just doesn't understand
when I type the wrong word. G

Wayne

(Tom Mato) wrote in
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What you people neve heard of Beef Ratgu ? or Ratatui ?

Hehehe!

Alan wrote:

More than likely your roast is too lean. Juicy roasts really should
be well-marbled with rat.

I always thought of rodents being too lean for marbleing a roast, but I
defer to your experience. Thanks for the tip; I'll give it a try.
Ed

http://pages.cthome.net/edhome

"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in news:WhnQb.11657$Vg2.7733
@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com:

Alan wrote:

More than likely your roast is too lean. Juicy roasts really should
be well-marbled with rat.

I always thought of rodents being too lean for marbleing a roast, but I
defer to your experience. Thanks for the tip; I'll give it a try.
Ed

http://pages.cthome.net/edhome




Thanks, Ed. I'm sure you'll love it! G

Alan, wrote:

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 00:52:48 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
wrote:

"sandy" wrote in
:

I like cooking beef in the crockpot......I layer the crockpot with
baby carrots,,,,,put in the roast,,,,,add an envelope of onion
soup,,,,and yet I find the meat dry.
What am I doing wrong? Should I brown the roast first? add liquid?
I have a boneless blade pot roast?
I appreciate your help.
Sandy

More than likely your roast is too lean. Juicy roasts really should be
well-marbled with rat. And, yes, it's a good idea to brown the roast
first...not to prevent dryness, but to enhance flavor.

Wayne

...and most recipes I've seen for pot roast include adding a cup or
two of water. . .


Try red wine instead for a real treat.

gloria p