Well, one of the first crock pots were made out of wood, and lined with crocodile skin so there werent any leaks. So they named it the crocodolo pot. Over time, people have shortened it to the crock pot. Almost unbelievable eh?
The term for a slow cooker is spelled "crock pot" but may appear as crockpot depending on brand. The spelling Crock-Pot is a trademark name.
There are many websites with crock pot recipes. To name a few, one could visit websites such as Crock Pot Ladies, All Recipes, Southern Food and Betty Crocker.
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Yes you can spare ribs in the crock pot
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Yes you can cook just about anything in a crock pot
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Crock - pot recipes can be found at all recipes.com for some great ideas for slow cookers . Crock pot .com also offers a good ranges of recipes or 5000 crock pot recipes can be found at cdkitchen.com
Many different crock pot recipes for every day of the year can be found online at http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/
First and foremost one would need a beef brisket and a crock pot for a beef brisket crock pot recipe. Some other ingredients one might find in a crock pot beef brisket recipe are garlic, onions, carrots, mushrooms, turnips or parsnips.
You can find tons of wonderful crock pot related recipes at many of the internet's leading recipe sites. To name a few, there is AllRecipes, FoodNetwork, and Food.
You can find information on crock pot cookers at the following sites homecooking.about.com/od/crockpotrecipes ,www.currys.co.uk/.../crock-pot-sc7500iuk-slow-cooker-black