I don't even feel like ordering the crock pot, not because of that. I don't feel like eating again. I got so hungry the other morning I thought it was a good sign because I never wake up hungry any more. All the things I love to eat and make ran through my head, especially for instant gratification and it was morning, a sausage and egg biscuit, but I doubt I could have gotten it chewed up anyway that day. It didn't last. Now I'm back to forcing myself to eat. I fix 2 cups of coffee with NIDO fortified milk instead of creamer and all the sugar I want. I drink them one after the other then that is it for the day. It's the only thing I really look forward to and didn't drink coffee for years. And I make it without a coffee pot. And use Great Value Colombian coffee. Has to be Colombian and has to come from a store to make sure it has stayed sealed. If you order online, sometimes they palm broken seal coffee, rejects, dated, dented junk off on people at a higher price. Beware.
I don't know what I'll do about the beef sandwiches.
I'll share something with the group because you have been so helpful to me.
I have my old crock pot, I don't know if low works any more, the light went out, but high still works, maybe not for long. I cooked my special knockoff Maid Rites in it. It cooked dry but the meat was perfect. Here's what I did. And my kids can't believe it's just like Maid Rite or better.
I get one pound of 80/20 ground chuck and one pound of ground sirloin at the butcher. Dump it in the crock pot. Add about 1 cup water, 1 packet of Washington Broth seasoning (hard to find now), and go easy on the salt but it needs a little and let it steam. As it cooks, break it up with something. Let it go until it feels right.
But that isn't enough. I bought some special wax papers because the steam doesn't work for regular wax paper. I spread yellow mustard, dill pickle, and chopped onion on the bottom. Pile as much meat as you can get into it, pack it in with back of big ice cream scoop or something. Find a nice puffy bun that you can press down hard on and won't lose it's strength or taste. Wrap it like they do at Maid Rite. Wait about a minute or two and dig in.
You can put the condiments on the top of the meat instead; this is as near as I can piece together of what the original Maid Rite in Muscatine Iowa did. He was a butcher and used the whole cow which is the best way if you can ever get some. For a big gathering I made sloppy joes in the oven in my turkey roaster one year. The guy who contributed the meat said it was part of a whole cow ground up. It's hard for regular people to get it so I did the next best thing with the chuck and sirloin.
I got burned stuff on the walls of my crock, had a time getting it off and can't remember how I finally did. So I was looking forward to getting a new crock pot. It didn't burn or dry out the meat luckily.
I know you will change something about it which is fine. Everybody seems to. But mine except for the meat used is as close to the original way they served them as you can get at home. If you order one with everything here, that's what you get, mustard, pickles and chopped onion, no nothing else. Even ketchup which I always like on my burgers.
This stuff only for me, don't know if I'll be able to find it when I run out.