I like to fry some things - use a little butter and olive oil, grill, roast (we have a vertical grill that does a wonderful job) and BBQ. In the winter we do use our crock-pot (have two) and they are so good and the meat is just melt in your mouth tender.
Think I will leave the slow roasting until it is cooler thanks.......................

Oh Arline thay have tiny crock pots too now. Maybe try looking under slow cookers? Your too funny!

= Hathani
You mean you have a vertical grill on your oven top? I was going to buy one of those when I moved here but they told me it had to be on an outside wall. Man was I upset! I had my heart set on that oven all for the grill and two ovens in it, small and larger it would have been wonderful.

LOL Hath.. No, I would slow roast either in that heat. YOU would be slow roasting yourself LOL

Yes, Arline.. my crock pot is small. I have a very small kitchen too and it just fits in the corner of my counter. You could put it on the top of your cupboards if you wanted to. They really are great and like Hath says, the meat just melts in your mouth.

I would LOVE one of those vertical grills too, Sunny! I guess thats what happens when you have condo living, eh?

Whats a vertical grille? The top of my cabinets is the ceiling.

One our crock-pots is small but we needed a bigger as well for when people come - or when we want to make extra for later.
a vertical grill is exactly what it says it is electric and grills both sides at once adn all the fat goes into the tray at the bottom. And if you put the fat side up it bastes the meat as it goes down - great meat. We use it for chops, sausages and meat/hamburger patties. Can use it for steak too but as we both like ours different ways we usually use the pan or the BBQ for them.

I have a nice size crock pot.. not too big or too small. It is big enough to feed about six or eight people, which is just enough if we have company.

A vertical grill is really good when you dont want a lot of fat left in your meat. It just stays on the bottom of the grill.. it is great.. wish I had one :)

Oh, thats the George Foreman grille - I have one and use it when its too cold to use the gas grille on the terrace although I prefer the broiler to the George Foreman.

I didnt know a vertrical grill was the same as George Foreman. My mother has one and it doesnt baste the meat like the vertical grill or do it on both sides.

The broiler, you get lots of fat in it. Why wouldnt you want to grill it in a grill that gets rid of it?

The taste isn't as good. The George Foreman DOES cook on both sides at the same time and the fat drips into a pan. No it doesn't baste - but I never baste a steak or hamburger

No a vertical grill is not a George Foreman.

When you use the real vertical grills putting the fat on the upper side of the grill it is - well more or less self basting. We had chaps last night and sausages cooking in it tonight and they were delicious.
And while George cooks both side this one (picked up for $20 at the market) seems to be just so much nicer. Have not seen one in the stores for a while though so maybe like a lot of things they have been thought to be "old" and have been phased out as pressure cookers and crock-pots were for many years.
They have returned so maybe the grills will as well.
I hope so - but for now I have mine and I love it.

Will the Real Vertical Grill Please Stand Up!!!!!!
I have a GF grill, a real small one. I wish I was him cause I had that idea too and I am poor and he is rich cause he put it into play.Aghhhhh

Hathani I thought you meant the grills on the oven tops. I wasn't sure buy knew you didn't mean a GF grill. They have so many grills out now it is crazy. I gotta ask..what are chaps?????Don't cowboys wear them?
LOL
I used to love my pressure cooker but it always scared me. I saw one blow up with my friend so my life wasn't the same using it after that. My husband used to laugh at me and say why are you standing back there (cause I was hiding from the cooker) Lol Now they have the electric ones on Tv I see. I have no need for that as there is only me now but in the day it was great for fast cooking and good.
I seldom use my broiler anymore with the grills.
Arline you can't cook outside in the winter???? I mean here you could but NY it is freezing and snowing a long time there. I can just see you out there with hats, gloves, coats and broiling a steak> LOL

I think chaps are like having friends over, Sunny... not sure, but that is what I thought.

We cook outside in the winter here, Sunny. We use the bbq all year long. You just go out, click it to turn it on, come back in and get the stuff ready, run out , put it on and leave it until you have to go out again. That is when it is really cold. A lot of the time, it is really nice, like it has been the last few weeks when the chinook comes in.

I thought a pressure cooker and a crock pot were the same thing.

I thought it was a vertical on the counter top grill too.

I use the gas grille outside all winter as long as its not bitter cold, snowing or raining or very windy. I put on a warm robe and put the steak on and come back in till its time to turn it over. You're only out there a second and a grille is so easy to clean.

I think Hath meant a chOp not chAp. Hath, what in a chop or sausage would require basting?

I also use the gas bbq in the winter as long as it is fairly nice out. I do the same thing.. put it on, get back inside until it is time to go and check on them again. It just tastes so good on the bbq.. a totally different taste.

oh yes.. probably pork chops? I thought she didnt eat pork

probably lamb chops