Does this look normal?
Cooking is nightmarish for me; like a grainy old black and white movie featuring an evil dentist trying to kill his patient with those shiny, lethal looking instruments. I’m a demented doctor and I mutilate food with knives and spatulas.
[Yes, I really had that dream]
Dang. Anyway, yesterday about 1:00p I put five cups of water, onions, carrots, celery, spices and a cut up chicken in the crock pot and set it for 4 hour on ‘high’. When checked it seemed hot, but nothing had really happened, so Arthur told me that it needed to cook over night. I put it on 8 hours at low and went to bed.
This is after I took the chicken off the bone this morning and returned it to the pot. It looks disgusting and I can’t even make myself taste it. SO it went into the fridge and I’ll take it out tomorrow, pour in some rice and another two cups of water [I'm winging it here!] and see what happens.
Don’t ask what I thought I was going to get… I’d no idea. But that crock pot’s been sitting there unused for a year, taunting me… Something was going to happen, and soon, or I’d give it away. The verdict may head in that direction tomorrow, anyway.
I needed those lethal instruments when an idiot tried to sell me cheap auto insurance over the phone yesterday. I try to be nice, but…
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Thanks, Tammi! I’m just not used to it being so dark! When other people cook it like that it’s light… so I figured I fugged up somewhere…
I’ll try to taste it tomorrow… or get Arthur to. 
I think it looks edible. But if you’re really nervous, have some liquid courage first! 
We ate it today! It’s okay; I’m just not a good cook.
Hey, at least you gave it a try. There are some great crock pot recipes on the net. Just search for slow cooker recipes and you will be amazed at how much you find.
I need to do that, because too many people tell me how great it is to use their slow cooker.. but I’m just clueless with it.
It looks fine to me and now I think your “glop” description is unfounded.
For your crock pot. go to Price Club (Costco, if you must) and grab one of those three-packs of boneless pork roast. They’re not very expensive at all. Put one in the crock pot, add a cup of water and half a bottle of good barbeque sauce. Turn the cooker on to high for 3 hours, turning the roast halfway through and shredding it just a bit. If you need, add another half cup of water and a little more sauce. After the first few hours, reduce heat to low and cook another 3 hours. Serve with rice, potatoes, applesauce, or whatever sounds good. Have some nice biscuits or rolls on hand for sandwiches the next day.
Cool, I’ll try that!! Thanks! 
All the ingredients sound right…and I don’t think it looks bad. That’s just, IMHO, what happens with a cut up chicken.
And the rice, it’ll thicken it up a bit and really….it should be fine.