food experiments can go awry...

...in this case, I'm going for a cross between my dad's "pot of kidney beans" (with onion, a ham hock, and onion salt) and my aunt's baked beans (with navy beans, molasses, brown sugar, ketchup).

Problem? Well, I got the beans, and onion, and some chicken broth and water into the crock pot as we left the house about 11am, on low. When we got home (about 3pm) I added some seasonings (bacon & tomato paste) and turned it up to high. It's now just past 5, and the kidney beans are ... edible, but not tender.

Of course it could be that I should just, you know, let them cook. Both recipes I'm basing this on were crock pot meals that would cook 8-10 hours. Putting it on high for 2 hours isn't the same as having it on low for 4, especially since heat was lost while I added things. I wasn't really planning on having it done until after jw1776 and skydancer finishing gaming (a couple hours from now). I really only checked it because I'm hungry. I can fix myself a sandwich or something.

But I still will probably do a temp test before I use the crock pot again.