I've wanted a crock pot for a long time, and about 6 months ago I finally got one! It's a 5 QT Hamilton Beach. I used it only about 4 times and it worked great. I was really looking forward to using it this winter.
On Saturday we had a potluck to go to, and I made meatballs in barbecue sauce. I put frozen meatballs and a whole jar of barbecue sauce in the crockpot and turned it on low for 6-7 hours. After I took the meatballs out I saw that the ceramic insert had a large crack along the bottom, and that much of the sauce had leaked out into the crock pot. The ceramic was not broken before making the meatballs.
Does anyone have any idea what happened? I've been trying to search on the internet and I saw that you are not supposed to have temperatures extremes in a crockpot (such as add frozen food to a hot crockpot.) The crockpot was at room temperature when I added the meatballs.
I know that there is a lot of knowledge here on the DIS, and I'm hoping that some of you can shed some light on what may have gone wrong for me.
Thanks!
On Saturday we had a potluck to go to, and I made meatballs in barbecue sauce. I put frozen meatballs and a whole jar of barbecue sauce in the crockpot and turned it on low for 6-7 hours. After I took the meatballs out I saw that the ceramic insert had a large crack along the bottom, and that much of the sauce had leaked out into the crock pot. The ceramic was not broken before making the meatballs.
Does anyone have any idea what happened? I've been trying to search on the internet and I saw that you are not supposed to have temperatures extremes in a crockpot (such as add frozen food to a hot crockpot.) The crockpot was at room temperature when I added the meatballs.
I know that there is a lot of knowledge here on the DIS, and I'm hoping that some of you can shed some light on what may have gone wrong for me.
Thanks!