BETTER Than Pot Roast - SIMPLE Slow Cooker Beef

can you talk to the use of a dutch oven instead? I started this recipe this morning but chose to use my a le creuset dutch oven instead. Now doing some reading I'm seeing that the cooking times can vary DRASTICALLY between slow cooker and dutch ovens. Any additional direction to add here? I'm hoping to have this for dinner but now it's seeming like it might be a late late lunch or early early supper.

I tried it and it came out great. I adjusted because I had a 3 lb chuck roast. Do you think I could use beef stew meat? Asking for a friend....

enough pepper to form a kidney stone

Delicious! I used beef shank and it came out so tender. The liquid was too peppery for me, but the roast reminded me of italian beef. Can’t wait to make it again.

4-6 Tbsp of pepper? I just added 2.5 and 1/8 tsp white pepper and concerned it's too much.

Making this for the first time tonight with the instant pot duo and after tgree hours the liquid was still luke warm. I thought 6 hours sounded like a long time as I'd brased beef using an oven and stainless frying pan with a lid. I decided to pressure cook it before finishing a coue of hours on slow cook. I don't think a traditional crock pot will need to go for that long. Might have been fine if I got everything ready amd set it in the morning, but I think a good alternative would be to start hot and then slow cook an hour or 2.

I tried this recipe today, December 17,2023 and I must say that the beef was very good and tasty. HOWEVER....my experience has been that when I eat at many establishments in the US, the food (meats and gravy, baked potatoes etc) is far too salty. I have always said that Americans LOVE salt. (I live in Canada) I have cooked for 45 years, and I would say that this would be much better with LESS. I only used two tablespoons of Kosher salt and it was STILL way too salty. And I'm not sure exactly what the cocoa powder was supposed to do. I didn't find much difference between this and other slow cooker roasts that I have done. Anyway, besides being too salty (especially the gravy) I certainly enjoyed the meal.

WTF with the faux English accent?

Bases loaded, full count.....pitch comes in - its gone!!!! Home run, well plated :) Yes, I shall try, and smash it!!!

Can I make this in my oven? And if so, what temp and how long would you say?

Making this right now! Slight alteration on the quantity of some ingredients (not by choice).

I'm looking forward to seeing what the mushrooms and chocolate do when cooked down with the beef and broth. Sounds incredible.

I think I'm going to eat it over some egg noodles with a side of sprouts.

"He cooks up the rabbit food over medium heat...."

I wouldn’t add so much black pepper. 4-6 Tb? No.

I know someone that actually can’t eat mushrooms, even when the texture is gone. I wonder if maybe using a miso or Korean flavor paste might be a good substitute for mushrooms?

Could I add red wine or would that mess up the flavor

The cooker is due to ding in 30 minutes. Didn't have Dutch cocoa so used the cheap domestic . Sprouts and about 6 small gold taters have been tossed with K salt and dried thyme and sit , cut-sidedownon a small parchment lined sheet pan I'll turn on the oven when the timer dings. My roast was less than 1.5#. But we're a 2-person fam so I hoping for a half hour of play to get the veggies roasted after meat is done!

He rubs the lotion into the skin

Came out as instructed, BUT, not sure why you suggested so much pepper? I even eased off on that much pepper. The finished product has too much pepper. I had to serve with Cottage Cheese to ease off on the heat.

Beef flavored onion stew!

Served this to my family of 8. EVERYONE LOVED IT! A definite winner in our home

4 TPS salt is WAY too much!! Couldn't even eat it as it was so salty!!

This was a very disappointing meal. I followed directions to the letter. My husband and I were so excited to try it. Meat would not shred, very tough. And I believe it was good quality beef.☹️

A few packets of instant coffee along with the cocoa is great with this recipe and chili too.

I like it. Im going to try it soon.

I made this today and it’s fabulous!

Man, I did this exact recipe in my Instant Pot slow cooker for 6 hours and the meat was barely tender. I ended up finishing with 90 min of pressure cooking. I don’t know if my slow cooker just doesn’t work as well or what. It is, in fact, a pressure cooker with a slow cooker function, so it’s probably not the best for the latter.

Anyone tried this recipe with a pressure cooker right out of the gate? Ive always felt like the fat and connective tissue needs time to breakdown, but maybe the pressure cooker does the same faster?

I love the Better Than Bullion, but my daughter can’t have it because of the corn stuff in it. I use beef bone broth… and I recently made some beef stock (unsalted). Can I substitute that for the Better Than Bullion?

I don't get it - this was way too peppery for me and I used less than called for, but much worse it is so salty that the liquid (and therefore the gravy) is inedible. The meat is okay, but very salty. I had to mix a bunch of plain yogurt into the dish to be able to eat it all.

Tony Angelo in disguise 🥸

Actually this is ok but I'll stick to slow cooker recipes that are simpler....the whole feature about slow cookers is you can throw everything in a pot and come home and have the whole meal out of that pot! This is way too complicated

Made this for dinner and it was so delicious! Thank you for sharing it.

The "English commentator" is hysterical. A captivating video. I want to make this!

Trying this today and have another hour to go. One minor change I did was rather than top off the sauce to cover the meat by adding water I accidentally topped it off with red wine. I hope that was ok?

For me, 16-20 cloves of garlic may not be enough. I've never had anybody suggest not eating onions and garlic because of their carbs. Not eating them can cause artery clogging. Doc wants me to take garlic pills. I say no. I'm not a big fan of xanthan gum. Since it is a corn sugar, I might as well use corn starch. I use chuck cuts for all kinds of meals. Remember Brisket used to be junk meat too. Rib-eye is way too expensive. But if we use enough chuck, maybe rib-eye will come down? I'll check out the Better than Bullion. I have dutch oven; maybe I'll try this there. Thanks for the delicious ideas.

I don't know why, it sure wasn't the amount of black pepper, but I followed the recipe to the letter. Maybe because I had most everything, including the special cocoa. Whatever the reason. I'm so glad I did! I had what I thought was the best slow cooker roast recipe there was, but it doesn't come anywhere near this one! My best recipe is in the trash, this is by far the very best! It's incredible! Just to the naysayers that like to change things, follow the recipe to the letter, it's better.

This recipe is wasted on me, due to the fact that I'm seriously allergic to both onions and mushrooms.

I’m always looking for recipes for roasts/ meats. I tried this last night and MY GOODNESS, delicious!!! Followed recipe exactly and YUM! It was an instant hit with the family. Thank you for expanding my go-to recipe list.

I have a bunch of chuck roasts in my freezer that I need to eat up before my next beef is processed and delivered so I’m definitely going to try this soon.

Mushrooms are not grown in poop. It would violate about a billion food safety laws. Why do people keep saying this? It's so weird 😳😙😙

Glad I read the comments. 3 tsp of salt instead of 3 Tbsp added to the broth. Looks Devine. Making it this tomorrow. Thanks 😊🙏

Hmmmm what is brown swerve?

I didn't care for this recipe, way too much pepper. I might try this recipe with 1 tbsp of pepper and no garlic. In all my taste is too different from this shef and won't be cooking his recipes.

Can you taste the cocoa at all? I'd like to try this but the thought of cocoa in it freaks me out a little lol.

found your channel and spurted coffee on the devils weed. :) brilliant humour and look forward to investigating your channel further for keto carnivore stuff

Mysteries? He said its chuck?😂

I'm glad you overcame your distaste for mushrooms, but for those of us who can't, that was a legit question. The shrooms must go.

Omg! Dying to try this!

Quit being a snobbish pedantic. It is a pot roast. You are cooking a chuck ROAST in a crock POT. FFS.