I use slow cooker liners consistently. However, I often want to cook several different items in the same pot that I do not wish to mix. For example, tonight I cooked a bacon-wrapped pork loin roast, corn on the cob, and a baked potato. I had to use a huge liner bag for the roast and another huge liner bag for the corn (cooked in butter), and wrapped the potato in foil. It would have been great if I could have had a smaller bag for each item. Does anyone know if such a thing exists on the market, and if so, where to purchase them?
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A better idea is to have several Pyrex bowls in different sizes, and to cook different items in each bowl
I understand what you are trying to do and I have used the same method to cook more than one kind of food in my larger crock pot so your question interested me as I also thought the liners were too large.
Reynolds does not recommend using oven bags in the crock pot but checking further Reynolds stated the bags were made of the same material but the opening on oven bags is on the long end and liner bags are on the wide end. Seems to me that would be the place to have the opening for the way you are using them (?).
Glad web site states their oven bags can be used in slow cookers and they do come in smaller sizes:
GLAD Oven Bags are suitable for conventional ovens up to 200C or microwave ovens and slow cookers. Also can be used to marinate meat before cooking. The Extra-Large size can also be used in slow cookers as a slow cooker liner.
I also found that some people recommend McCormick Bag 'n Season Cooking Bags as they are also "oven" bags.
do you guys rinse and reuse these? (providing you are not using them for meat)
I spent more time than I cared for looking for some sort of segmented or 4 -in-1 crockpot liner, because I was CERTAIN that someone had invented it. It makes so much sense to me - just like some plates are segmented, there should be some liners made that way too. Oh well. I'm still pretty sure that this has been invented. You could search on Amazon in the liner section, see if any jump out at you.
I saw others online who use tin foil instead of liners, but I don't see how that would work with liquids.
I contacted the Reynolds Company, that makes Crockpot Liners, and they said they don't make smaller sizes.
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