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You will seal the top of the crock pot with a flour paste called "lute". See related links for instructions.
No, a stock pot is a large, deep, straight-sided pot for preparing stocks and simmering large quantities of liquid on the stove top. A Dutch oven is shorter, thick-walled (usually cast iron) pot with a tight fitting lid. Commonly referred to as a 'camp oven', it is meant for braising or slow-cooking and can be used in either the oven, stove top or directly over hot coals on a campfire.
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Yes, but not to fry. What do you mean by grease? Are you talking of the kind of grease used in axles? Or the kind on bicycle chains? Then no, you can't. If you mean grease as in "oil" or "fat" then yes you can. Butter, olive oil, canola oil, vegetable oil, margarine, etc will all work fine in a crock pot. But remember, unless you have the special kind of crock pots where the crock can be put on a stove top, the crock pot will not brown any meat or vegetables put into the pot. It will merely cook them slowly over a long period of time. It is best to brown meat or vegetables in a saute pan, then put them in a crock pot. That is where you would want to use the fat or oil. If you just put regular oil into a crock pot, the food will be very greasy if you put in too much. It will not evaporate away as will water or broth.
Allow about an inch at the top of the crock pot. That allows for the heat to circulate.
Convection. The hot water at the bottom of the pot rises to the top.
There are three good techniques for rendering beef fat, you can render the fat in either a crock pot or on top of the stove, in some cases inside the oven, once rendered it lasts for a life time.
You can. You can do it in a big pot or in a skillet.
Target. Has one for 9.99. It is stainless with a black top. Just Google potpourri crock pot.
No I don't think it would work because you need to bake them to get the brown crust that forms on top and in a crock pot there is too much moisture so they would turn to mush.
One dish meals are typically prepared in the oven by baking, or on the stove top, by stewing, braising or boiling. A crock pot is also useful, as it is a single vessel that has a self-contained heating element.
Overall a glass top stove is a good choice. But, you can only have an electric stove with a glass top, not gas. It is quite easy to clean which is a big positive. Also, heat is evenly distributed to the pot.