For my birthday my fiance bought me a new gadget: the CrockPot BBQ Pit. This appliance is great for slow cooking and particularly barbecuing meat inside. For those who do not have a slow cooking grill outside this is a godsend!

The main trick to this is that is slow cooks the meat much like a CrockPot will slow cook chili or soup. Meat just falls off the bone by the time it is done. The slow cooker is perfect for cooking chicken and/or ribs. I have already cooked ribs in it twice and without fail the meat was as tender as anything else I have tasted anywhere. I cooked a six pound chicken in it and the only complaint I had about it was that the bird was falling apart when I tried to take it out.

Our local supermarket like many others across the country, gives their loyal customers a free turkey around Thanksgiving, and we ended up with two turkeys. So for Christmas dinner, I decided I would cook the other one in the slow cooker. My plan was to cook the turkey most of the day (about 12 hours) in the slow cooker so it would be ready by dinner. Late the night – (More…)