Do you know why the crock pot was invented?

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    bekitzur
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    The inventor was trying to figure out a way to make cholent.

    Really. Look it up.

    While we’re on the topic, how much water should I put in overnight cholent (200 degrees in an oven)?

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    screwdriverdelight
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    Hey, I thought you were joking. It’s the first thing that comes up on a google search.

    #1115211
    theprof1
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    The Naxon Utilities Corporation of Chicago, under the leadership of Irving Naxon, developed the Naxon Beanery All-Purpose Cooker. Naxon was inspired by a story his Jewish grandmother told about how back in her native Lithuanian shtetl, her mother made a stew called cholent, which took several hours to cook in an oven

    #1115213
    Mammele
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    And Naxon’s name was originally Nachumsohn.

    #1115214
    Joseph
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    What do goyim use crockpots for? (At one time I was surprised to see them being sold by goyish stores.)

    #1115215
    lesschumras
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    For the same reason we do. For stews

    #1115217
    akuperma
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    I believe some archeologists have dug up some unusually thick pots in the earliest post-conquest Jewish settlements. The non-frum archeologists couldn’t see what they were for, their frum colleagues immediately realized the value of a pot designed to keep something hot for an unusually long time.

    Nothing new under the sun.

    #1115218
    🍫Syag Lchochma
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    i don’t think he claimed it was new, i think he was inventing a way to have the same thing in our day. and it totally doesn’t shock me that it was invented by a jew but of course being from chicago i would expect no less.

    #1115219
    Geordie613
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    Huh! You can’t rely on Wikipedia. Next they’ll claim that the Kosherlamp was invented by a Jew.

    #1115220
    yehudayona
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    OK, I’ve heard that in the shtetl, everybody put their cholent in the town bakery’s oven. So how did the bakery make pareve bread?

    #1115221
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    Why wouldn’t the bread be pareve?

    #1115222
    Geordie613
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    Because it was baked in a meaty oven.

    Maybe that’s why milky bread etc has to be a different shape or form, because otherwise it would be assumed to be meaty.

    #1115223
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
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    You are oversimplifying the halacha. Define “meaty”, and query whether a meaty oven of every definition always gives a pareve food baked inside it a din of meaty.

    The reason for the issur of meaty or milky bread is that bread is commonly eaten at all meals and is normally pareve. This milky or meaty bread might thetefore inadvertantly be used with meat or milk.

    The unique shape serves as a reminder that this is not like typical bread which is assumed to be pareve.

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