"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 18:29:59 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
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>> "sf" > wrote in message
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>> > On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 15:23:54 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> > > wrote:
>> >
>> >> But the end result of the beans leaves me with more sauce than usual.
>> >> That
>> >> could be my fault though. I don't measure when I make them and just
>> >> throw
>> >> things in to taste. So it could be that I started with a bit too much
>> >> liquid. They do taste really good and that's all that really matters.
>> >
>> > I'd say leave the top off or at least cracked when that happens
>> > because the lid on a crock pot fits so well, there's virtually no
>> > evaporation,
>>
>> Yours might but mine doesn't. When I had it on high, the lid was
>> literally
>> leaping up about 1/4 inch each time the liquid boiled. Most of the
>> liquid
>> had boiled off after I put it on high. Pretty sure it all would have had
>> I
>> left them in there for another couple of hours but I was too sleepy and
>> just
>> gave up on them at that point.
>
> It sounds like you didn't have the ingredients at least 1 inch below
> the top, which is what the manufacturer tells you to do. I've never
> cooked anything on high more than one hour, so I have no idea how my
> Crock Pot would make the contents react after 3 or 4 hours.

They were probably 2" below. This was my biggest one. I think it's a 6
quart one.