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Default I have a pork butt in the crock pot.

Roy > wrote:

>On Friday, December 30, 2011 11:43:21 AM UTC-7, dsi1 wrote:


>> Roast pork with gravy and rice is a staple in Hawaii. The best roast
>> pork I ever had was at a lunch wagon where I used to work. I cornered
>> the cook several times and asked him for his method. Then I cornered him
>> again when it didn't turn out like his. I've tried for over a decade to
>> copy his dish but nowdays I just put the pork in a pot a stick it in the
>> oven for 5 or more hours at low temperature. Cooking it on a bed of
>> onions is a swell idea.


>Some cooks will not give out their secrets for some inexplicable
>reason. Even torture wouldn't work I'm sure. Nasty beggars.


Perhaps the lunch wagon guy was using MSG?


Steve