don't use EXPENSIVE cuts of meat.
not enough fat..................

be sure your cooking on the LOW temp.

i DON'T use water of any kind, just an envelope of onion soup.


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"Jim Kroger" > wrote in message
...
> Hi all. I am trying to make beef soup. I've tried to use several
kinds
> of roast, up to the most expensive I could find.
>
> You know how a really well-cooked roast has parts the just fall
apart in
> your mouth they are so tender? I would expect roast cooked in soup
in a
> crock pot for 10 hours to be like that or even more tender.
>
> But every time, my roast meat is not soft, but it's kind of tough.
Not
> like an overcooked dried out roast kind of touch, but sort of
chewy.
>
> Anybody know what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jim