Random cooking question

[KristinCB]

What do you use most often when cooking supper?

just curious here.. I bake alot of stuff but only because I often forget to start the crockpot early enough (which I was smart with today and have dinner in there) but really just curious (as always..)

[Gemma]

My oven is used nearly all the time! :)

[eranslow]

We used our stovetop for nearly all our meals. Especially since our oven takes forever to preheat - it also really warms up the house. Then it's probably our grill - especially in the summer months :)

[Nikki Epperson]

ours is stovetop, then grill, then crockpot. Our oven is the last resort during summer, lol! It's just too hot!

[LeeAndra]

I mostly use the stovetop. Faster and easier. Lots of baked things are casseroles which are not usually GF-friendly and not a type of food that SS will eat.

[dgreenshield]

For us it depends on the time of year. During the summer, we avoid using the stove or oven since it will just heat the kitchen up...so we usually do all of our meals and sides on the grill. During the cooler months, we use the oven and stove top.

[MamaBee]

I would love to use the crockpot more... but I just don't remember to put in on time or know how long to cook something and it turns into mush... haha... so it's the stovetop or microwave.

[maryinaz]

I avoid the big oven at all costs for dinner. We have a toaster oven that is used at least once a day. But for dinners, it's mostly the stove-top. I wish I used the grill more but I'm not great at it and I don't like to make DH grill on weeknights.

I too would like to use the crockpot/slowcooker more, but there are very few things my family will eat from there. :p

[nikkiARNGwife]

Right now with Brian gone I'm ashamed it's mostly the microwave! lol I just don't cook a lot of big meals with him not here..the kids are so picky that they eat the same things over and over and I eat a lot of frozen dinners :/

But when he is home and I do cook every day it's about 50/50 stovetop/oven.

[kendallt]

I picked oven, but really it's a combo of the oven/stovetop mostly. We do a lot of baked chicken dishes. I have sooo many awesome crockpot recipes, but sometimes I don't get dinner figured out and started in time to use it. I really should start planning ahead! :p

[gracelikerain]

It sort of depends on the time of year. Now I start using the stovetop more simply because the oven heats the house up, but I use my crockpot all year round at least once a week.

[chastml]

If I'm cooking, it's in the oven or the crockpot. I am scared of the stovetop. If DH is cooking, it's usually stovetop or grill, sometimes the oven.

[BrattyMeg]

stovetop here..i try and not turn the oven on when it's hot b/c it gets so hot in the kitchen

[Sherri Tierney]

I voted other.... microwave. I will microwave a meal any chance I get. I HATE to cook.

I do use the grill/oven/crock pot and stove top about the same amount though... but microwave rules. :)

[Keely~B]

The stove and the grill. It's hot here and my tiny house really heats up with the oven on so I use the it as little as possible.

[Kelly]

I'm a very lazy cook, so will cook most things in the oven where I can just forget about them, plus it gives me time to do other things like get the girls showered and do homework. In summer we have a lot of BBQ's, which is great because my husband does it and I get a night off, so I suggest alot of BBQ's in summer!!

[mariewilcox]

Mostly stove top for me. Being a vegetarian means no meat dishes to cook in the oven and most things are cooked stove top or not cooked at all. I do use the crock pot during sports seasons when I know we will be in late. In the summer we do use the grill quite a bit too.

[SmallMoments]

I voted oven. But it's probably a tie between oven & stovetop. In the summer we use the grill a lot too.

[taracotta7]

I voted stovetop but I think it is probably equal with Oven cooking. I am the same way with the crock pot........I always forget to start it in the morning and get really ticked off at myself. Today that was the case. ugh.

[Traci Reed]

We normally do a good combination of all of the above with stove winning out because it's easiest but tonight we're grilling the whole thing...corn, meat, sausage :wub:

[Darcy Baldwin]

Stove top and Geo. Foreman grill :D I do not turn on the oven in the summer if at all possible, and because our grill is broken, the Geo. foreman gets used tons.

[NeverendingJen]

stovetop, because we need to get a smaller crockpot now that we are cooking for only two again.

[YepBrook]

I voted stovetop, but I honestly use all of them fairly evenly. Often I'm cooking rice on the stovetop, roasting veggies in the oven, and DH is out grilling the steak or whatever meat. I also do a lot of crockpot meals and then make rolls or muffins in the oven & steam some fresh veggies on the stovetop or the microwave. We mostly try to do stovetop/crokpot/grill in the summer. :)

[LJSDesigns]

Mostly the stove top, but the oven a lot too. I don't grill much because I think it is a pain in the bum and takes too long. However, my new stove will have a grill/griddle on top. :)

[Milmomma]

well it depends if I can bare the temps outside, if so I grill out doors. If its too windy/cold/etc I grill indoors on the George. 90% of our meals are that way. :)

[julifish]

I cook most things in a pan on the stove top. Lazy nights seem to be oven nights because it's always something frozen that needs to be heated (pizza, chicken nuggets, fries). When I'm really planning ahead then it's the crockpot, but never more than one night every few weeks.

[rach3975]

Hmm...I don't know. I use the stovetop and oven about equally, but I also make extras of most things to heat in the microwave later. So I guess the microwave gets used a little more than the other 2, especially when you figure in things like veggies that I always cook in the microwave.

[Lyd]

I think I'm a tie between the first three. I use my crockpot at least once a week. But, I use my oven and stove top on a regular basis. We don't have a grill and I substitute with a broiler method that I really like.

[emmasmommy]

mostly stovetop, then oven, then crockpot. i personally never grill. dh does.

[Freckles]

Stovetop here. I had to look up crockpot a couple of months ago when I first read about it here. We don't have that. In the weekends when DH cooks, the oven is used regularly as well, but for me it's 95% the stovetop.

[webseitler]

I'm sooooo sick of cooking at the moment. My crockpot has gotten a real workout this year. I guess it would be more honest to say stovetop, but I voted crockpot. LOL!

[kscwgirl]

Stovetop or grill.. I hate using the oven in the summer, gets so dang hot in the house. I rarely use the crockpot...

[xboxmom]

I chose oven but only because Microwave wasn't on the list! I guess I could have picked other...hahah silly me.

[jessica31876]

we use the crockpot alot in winter because we make chili/stews more then. Now I like the idea of using it more in the summer because it puts off very little heat. We also eat a lot of no-cook stuff in the summer LOL. I hate cooking in the summertime.

[webseitler]

Meeeee, tooooo Jessica! I won't turn on the oven until December. LOL!

[Lizzy257]

Mostly oven here. The oven gets used every day, and the stovetop gets used probably 4 or 5 days as well as the oven. Oh, and there's the microwave - that gets used more than anything :D

[Libby Pritchett]

I voted crockpot, but oven is probably a close 2nd. I'm trying to think of anything we do on the stovetop besides sides like veggies or mac & cheese. I would say I use the crockpot at least 2-3 times a week, and we have a lot of leftovers.

[Sherri Tierney]

I'm sooooo sick of cooking at the moment. My crockpot has gotten a real workout this year. I guess it would be more honest to say stovetop, but I voted crockpot. LOL!

I am so sick of cooking, period. I have never liked cooking and probably never will. My husband likes cooking and is good at it (I'm not a terrible cook, infact, I get many compliments, I just don't enjoy any part of cooking) but he only cooks about once a month these days. I keep telling him he needs to cook once a week but truth is he wants to do these big elaborate meals and when he cooks dinner isn't ready until after 7pm and we usually eat at 5 on the dot so those nights I have grumpy kids trying to snack and wait on dinner. The irritating part is that once he makes a meal he hands me the recipe and tells me I'm making it the next time. He just doesn't understand how much I hate cooking. When we moved to this house I was excited about the fact that we have a kitchen that is open to the living room. We placed the TV so that I can cook and watch TV at the same time. If not for that, my family would eat frozen dinners every night. ;)

[Sharon Kay]

I like my pressure cooker ... it's a crockpot in only 45 minutes worth of time... LOL It makes cheap cuts of meat into very tender cuts ... and it doesn't "dry out" (like the top of a roast will in the crockpot) ... my beef & noodles (brown gravy) just falls apart in your mouth it is so tender ... makes awesome chicken & noodle soup ... etc etc

[sthomas215]

I use my oven quite a bit...whether for the main meal or for something like rolls or biscuits.

Stacey

[kristijoy]

Stove Top! Love to do pastas, stir fries, chinese, etc....

But I also use my toaster oven alot. It's a close 2nd!