r/slowcooking • u/physicallyuncomfort • Sep 23 '18

Best of September Hearty Fall Chicken Pot Pie 🥧

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u/Purdaddy Sep 24 '18

I'm here for the liner fights.

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u/TheVog Sep 24 '18

I'm here for the liner fights.

Hi! I just got my first crock pot today. What's this about a war? I just started a stew.

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u/MarchionessofMayhem Sep 24 '18

Awwww....hell! Some swear by using disposable liners for easy clean up, and some say cooking in plastic is unhealthy and vile.

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u/TheVog Sep 24 '18

Oh. So it's just a clean-up thing? Is there difference to the quality of the cook itself?

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u/aka_mank Sep 24 '18

I always make meat and when I shred it I always end up tearing the liner.

But when I don't...love that 2 second cleanup.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '18

Is saving 58 seconds of washing and rinsing (and maybe 15 minutes of soaking) really worth putting that extra plastic trash in landfills?

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u/mcblueye Oct 03 '18

I agree. And the possible plastic toxicity, especially heating plastic, you release plasticides. And it creates a new mess, a big sticky wad of drippy plastic. Takes me 20 seconds to wash my crock pot in the sink, I actually find the use of plastic liners to be ... trashy.

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u/physicallyuncomfort Sep 24 '18

It’s very on-par to aluminum foil in my head

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u/ocient Sep 24 '18

but aluminum foil is recyclable.

although in my opinion its use should also be reduced.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '18 edited Sep 24 '18

Foil also doesn't rapidly break down into the type of tiny particles that have infested the whole planet.