Crock Pots, Twizzlers, and Conductivity

Did you know that if you have a gallon-size Ziploc bag full of red Twizzlers sitting in between the base of your crock pot and the ceramic pot, it will still cook a pot of beans?

It will.



But the Twizzlers won't be very edible afterward. They'll be downright crunchy. But they won't melt, they will retain their shape and just get crisp and brown.



And you may have Ziploc plastic stuck to the inside of your crock pot base and it won't be easy to get off.



And it may take your beans longer than normal to cook. But if you're busy like me, and don't even get around to checking on the beans until they've been cooking for ten hours, then you won't even notice anything unusual until you try to take out the ceramic pot to wash it and for some reason, it's stuck. And then you get your strong hubby to pull on the pot while you hold the base, wondering what is going on because you didn't see anything spill in between. And then you see, with utter amazement, that there is a bag of Twizzlers gluing the appliance and pot together, and you put two and two together--oh, the Twizzlers were on the shelf above the crock pot and the last time you used the crock pot the base was put away on the shelf while the pot was in the dishwasher and one of the kids made chocolate chip cookies and the chocolate chips were under the Twizzlers and when you got down the chocolate chips you didn't notice that the Twizzlers fell into the crock pot and when you put the pot away, you didn't notice that there was something else underneath it, and you still didn't notice that morning when you threw in the beans and water and plugged it in, and yes, something had smelled a little sweeter than usual when they were cooking, come to think of it, but how did you not smell melted burning plastic, and WOW, you can't believe they still cooked!

Too bad you forgot to take a picture of the bag of crispy Twizzlers so everyone else could know what slow-cooked Twizzlers look like. And you might want to be a little more aware of things, ya know? The boogeyman could come boogeying into your kitchen and you wouldn't even notice.