Crock-Pot Recipes: Slow Cooking Tips for Beef, Ham & Roasts

Slow cooking in a Crock-Pot ensures juicy tri-tips and tender hams without drying out the meat. Discover directions for whole-cut chicken, bison roasts, and keeping pasta warm for family-style meals.

Sliced tri tip

How to Make the Best Tri Tip Roast in a Crock Pot

Tri tip roast, also known as triangle roast, is cut from the bottom sirloin and is a fairly small roast, usually weighing only 1 1/2 to 2 pounds. Tri tip roasts, unlike chuck roasts, are naturally tender and don't require a long cooking time to tenderize them.

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How to Fix Wet Cooked Rice

For a simple staple food, rice can be surprisingly tricky to make. Undercook it and it's wet or mushy. Overcook it and it burns to the bottom of the pan. Fortunately, rice that's merely wet is easy to fix. It may need additional cooking time if the kernels are still hard, or you may have simply used too much water.

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