Vegetarians need to look away now. This is just for us carnivores.

I have cooked for years and years, most of it I self taught through trail and error. When I first left home I remember my Dad saying to me, when you cook a chicken in the oven its 20 mins per llb, and 20 mins extra.

I remember cooking that chicken and it was not fully cooked, it was a huge disappointment Happy to say that my cooking is a lot better now but it has been 22 years since I left home. (Wow thats a long time.)

However today I experience something I never experienced before. .

We all think that when you cook a whole chicken to do it in on oven right, and the skin gets crispy then we baste it to make sure it stayes nice and juicy, but the breast is dry and most of the moisture is in the legs of the meat.

Behold the crockpot method.

I stared at the crockpot this morning wondering what I could cook in it? I remembered reading an article somewhere on cooking a whole chicken in a crockpot. Hmmm the skin will be really limp and greasy and fatty I thought. Still at 10 am this morning I put it in and turned it on high with some potatoes, onions and mushrooms.

I forgot about it for most of the day and just got on with what I needed to get on with, I vlogged and did some learning about bots and things.
When about an hour ago I went to check it. It was cooked but still white, not golden brown like in the oven.

I hauled the bird out and when it came out the legs fell off, it was kinda dangling on the elastic band that holds the whole thing together. So I placed it on a plate and gave it a few minutes to cool. Now when I strip a chicken I like to prise it apart with my hands and strip it all to the bare bone.
When I pulled the skin off honest to god the breast was entirely moist, not an inch of dryness, it was like KFC moist.
I was amazed at the difference all the time when I have cooked a chicken and we learn that the skin protects the meat to keep it moist and basting it. When really just placing it in a pot on a low heat for several hours not only perfectly cooks it, but does not dry it out at all and the flavour is unbelievable.
So now I have the chicken back in with a load of vegetables, I topped it off with extra stock to soak the vegetables in, and added some sausage and bacon in it.

It will be ready for 8 o clock, im only sorry I did not take pictures but honestly I did not think to do it when I was cooking it.

Hail the the crockpot every kitchen should have one.