Cholent Pot

when you throw in the detergent throw in a bunch of baking soda as well…and besides, your chulent will be better the next week anyway, what with the years of accumulated smells and layers 😀

Put water and a little bit of white vinegar and let it sit a little. It really works. (and no, it doesn’t smell like vinegar afterward.)

LOL, reminds me of my husband’s coffee mug…

When you put the lemon detergent in with some white distilled vinegar into the boiling water to soak, it should ideally be boiled up and left for a few hours to soak. Also the baking soda is excellent. Sometimes, I use St. Moritz oven cleaner and leave for a few hours.

For the coffee/tea mugs that are very discolored you can put a few drops of bleach into the cup with some lemon detergent and that makes them very clean. Rinse well and put in boiling water and they are like brand new.

Well I use vinegar for my kids milk cups. So that should work for the smell.

pookie…lol what a boro park answer :D:D:D

Dear Best Bubby,

If you really want to be the best bubby, take the St. Moritz and get rid of it!

Hi Ben Levi! I do know the dangers of St. Moritz and it is LOCKED AWAY in a cupboard in the garage, no one else has the key and I am the only one to use it. I spray that on the stains of the shirts, collars and cuffs and then use vanish for coloreds or the other vanish for whites and it is amazing. You can not use it on silk but on cotton or cotton/polyester it is great! Thank you for your concern!

Not to go off topic, but on ST. Moritz, a friend of ours daughter got severly burnt when sprayed by her older brother who managed to get the St. Moritz that was out of his reach. It was not a friendly situation…

My cholent gets baked in an aluminum pan (keep it in oven or put into warming drawer before shabbos) and then thrown out afterwards. No clean-up at all.

Phyllis, possible you are setting yourself up for problems from the start? What do you do with the pot after you finish serving the chulnt at lunch? As far as I know it is muttar at that point to empty the pot and soak with cold water and dishwashing liquid (dilute the dishwashing liquid if you wish, but not necessary if you don’t handle or rub it, just pour directly into the water in the pot). It will be much less smelly and easy to clean after Shabbos.

I used it once but it melted- what did I do wrong? I followed the instructions to the T

Feif Un, I didnt know Reinolds makes crock pot liners, those should be good. i actually use a liner for my potato kugel also when putting it in the cholent.

Vegetarian cholent: Start with a base of carrot and onion mushed in the food proccessor with a bit of oil. Beans of many varieties, chick peas, lentils, wheat or barley. Potato sliced. Liberally spice ( my mix, whole coriander, whole pepper, cumin, ketzach (black “cumin”) fenugreek, bay leaf. In stainless pot on plata. Motse shabbos, wash pot. No stick no mess.

Heard from adam gadol: “you cannot die of protein deficiency without concomitant general malnutrition.”

I meant to add to Best Bubby – if you cannot get Tilex (brand) can you get a solution of Sodium Hypochlorite? That is what Tilex basically is. It is a MUCH stronger form of regular chlorine bleach. I have found it to be invaluable in removing really stubborn stains from fabric safe/color safe items. I have used it to spot clean a white tablecloth from wine stains that were already set-in. You have to be careful, as some “whites” really are not white, they are white-colored and the bleach actually discolors them. But if I tried to clean something and nothing helped, I would be inclined to get rid of it, so the Tilex is always a last-ditch effort on such an item, and I have saved many of my husbands shirts that way. (I once left an entire load of white shirts in the laundry, damp, because it was erev yom tov and I forgot to dry them before bensching licht. By the time I was doing another laundry MANY days later, and discovered the wet shirts, they were so full of mold and mildew I was going to throw them out. I tried regular clorox, but it didn’t remove the black spots. Then I got the brilliant idea to try the Tilex on them. If it worked on the tiles, why not on the shirts? I sprayed each spot individually and it was amazing, B”H.

As with any bleach product keep it separate from the ammonia bottles.

Hi oomis 1105! Thanks for all the info. Where would I get Sodium HYPOChlorite? Is that the generic name? Would I have to ask in the chemist? I use the St. Motitz Well Done on whites and colors and all the collars and cuffs and any spots and it is fantastic. Then I wash on 40 degrees C and add the washing liquid to machine with vanish powder. There is a pink tub of Vanish for colors and a white tub for whites. Everything is like the day I bought it! B’H! I wash shirts by themselves, whites and colors seperately and when they are wet, I take them out from the machine, hang them on hangers and while wet spray with Faultless Regular Starch (from Costco), on the collars, cuffs and a quick all around, and leave to dry naturally. Then I iron with a steam iron. When one of my sons, came back from Yeshiva in Eretz he was so used to giving the shirts there to the launderette that he started to do it here. It is very expensive in London, and he stopped. He just gave me a compliment, “that no one does shirts like you, Mom, keep up the great work!”

I even use Well Done on the tablecloths, it is an amazing product and due to the accidents in Eretz and USA with it, they only have it in a few Kosher grocery stores.

And, yes I do lock it up in the garage and no one else has the key! You can soak tablecloths or whites (shirts) in soda cystals that have been dissolved in water to get out stains, in the last resort.

Wishing everyone a gutten erev Shabbos!

To Working, re: the crock pot bag liners, it’s important to lift up the top edge of the bag so it is not in contact with the hot crockpot, esp. when it’s on high. You may be able to fold it down when it’s on low/warm. That may be why it melted.

My friend was concerned about the chemicals in the plastic leaching into the food for so many hours, so she wets some parchment paper, and lines the crock with that. I did that for a few weeks, but it always leaked somewhat, and the mess wasn’t worth it to me. So, I went back to the bags. (I consider it a “sholom bayis” solution bec. I used to ask my hubby to clean it, and he didn’t want to, so..)

My pleasure, best bubby (though I CLAIM THAT TITLE in my family).

While doing a family name search,I found a posting from Nameless 2 years ago on this blog or a previous cholent blog with a description of Gershten soup.

To Nameless:

I am curious to learn if this recipe comes from your family and if there is more history to be gained. This is my family name and there is so little mispucha that I know of or history. Any information would be most appreciated.

i heard that the plastic from the chulent bag leaks into the food!

i stopped using them!!!

Surprising that the FDA allows them to sell these crockpot liners if they aren’t healthy.

They are sold as shoebox liners. Then, the distributors repackage them as crockpot bags.

http://tinyurl.com/5trjnvw

can people please provide links on the internet showing it is dangerous to cook with plastic? I am having a hard time finding any. thank you! Ima of three

EDITED

This is one source that explains the potential dangers of heating plastic with your food. Some plastics leek chemicals such as BPA that could contribute to cancer or health issues.

Some plastics have a “BPA Free” label to reassure the consumer that it is safe for use with food. I personally don’t feel comfortable heating my food in plastic of any kind, because the risks don’t outweigh the benefits. It is better to be safe.

What do I have to do with this?

“Health” issues.