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crock-pot

3.4

A dish cooked slowly in a slow cooker

noun
/ˈkrɒkˌpɒt/

: plato de olla de cocción lenta

For dinner, I made a crock-pot dish of vegetables and chicken that filled the house with a wonderful aroma.

Examples

Beans also freeze well, so I make up a crock pot of beans, eat what I want for a few days, and freeze the rest in one-cup servings.

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I prepared a delicious crock-pot meal of beef stew that simmered all day.
I went ham at the grocery store, got stuff for the crock pot recipe, and then lots of other unnecessary things.
Yesterday I made a crock pot of chicken thighs, which I'll pull the meat off of today to freeze in meal-sized portions.

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She enjoys creating new recipes in her crock-pot, experimenting with different ingredients each time.

Synonyms

pot roast

vscrock-pot

22 2.4

A large piece of beef slow cooked in liquid in a covered pot with vegetables like carrots and potatoes

is any slow-cooked meal, not limited to a single large cut of beef

hot pot

vscrock-pot

1 2.7

A stew of meat and potatoes cooked slowly in a covered pot

is any meal cooked slowly in a covered pot, not only meat and potatoes

How Tender

stew

110 1.0

braising

Specialized

2 4.1

crock-pot

3.4

roast

1 1.0

stir-fry

4 2.1

Surface Forms

crock-pot singular

crock-pots plural

Morphology

crock-pot = crock + pot (semi-transparent) = crock + pot

The dish sense is directly derived from the appliance compound, but understanding depends on knowing the appliance; thus only partially predictable.

Etymology

Crock-pot for a meal is named after the pot it is cooked in. A 'crock-pot' dish is simply food that was slowly cooked in that pot, which is why people call the stew or chili by the same name.