Potroast question

"BlueCarp.com" > If I slow cook a pot roast in a crock pot, and include
potatoes for my

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family, can I eat just the meat without getting unwanted carbs? Or do
the potato carbs somehow leach into the meat?

Thanks.

Okay. I'll put aside my "troll radar" for a second. Carbs do not "leach"
anywhere. In the case of the pot roast cooked with potatoes, though, the
carbs will be in the gravy. If you eat gravy-coated meat, you will eat some
of the carbs.

Pat in TX

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BlueCarp.com said:

If I slow cook a pot roast in a crock pot, and include potatoes for my
family, can I eat just the meat without getting unwanted carbs? Or do
the potato carbs somehow leach into the meat?

Thanks.

It kind of depends on how you cook it.

If you cook it just long enough that the meat and potatoes remain
discrete entities, you can avoid the potatoes as they do not "leech"
into the meat.

However, if you cook it long enough to become a stew-like meal, you
won't be able to avoid the potatoes, as they'll wind up in tiny bits
all through the whole thing.

I have been cooking low-carb for myself and higher-carb for my husband
and daughter for years. I put together a site with our family
favorite recipes. It may give you some ideas: http://ornery-geeks.org/text/cooking/

Thanks! I have bookmarked your site.

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BlueCarp.com said:

If I slow cook a pot roast in a crock pot, and include potatoes for
my family, can I eat just the meat without getting unwanted carbs?
Or do the potato carbs somehow leach into the meat?

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It kind of depends on how you cook it.

Quoted message said:

If you cook it just long enough that the meat and potatoes remain
discrete entities, you can avoid the potatoes as they do not "leech"
into the meat.

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However, if you cook it long enough to become a stew-like meal, you
won't be able to avoid the potatoes, as they'll wind up in tiny bits
all through the whole thing.

My crock-pot instructions say to put the meat on top of the
vegetables, because the vegetables take longer when you're
slow-cooking. In that case, I'd think if you pulled some meat off the
top of the roast for yourself before mixing it all together to make a
stew, you'd be pretty safe.

--
Aaron -- 285/235/200 -- aaron.baugher.biz

Pat said:

BlueCarp.com said:

If I slow cook a pot roast in a crock pot, and include potatoes for my
family, can I eat just the meat without getting unwanted carbs? Or do
the potato carbs somehow leach into the meat?

Carbs do not "leach" anywhere.

Starch doesn't. Sugar does. Potatoes don't caramelize so
their starch stays starch. Compare with onions which do
caramelize into sugar. Cook onions long enough and their
carbs do leach into the other food.

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In the case of the pot roast cooked with potatoes, though, the
carbs will be in the gravy. If you eat gravy-coated meat, you will eat some
of the carbs.

A matter of strictness. How strict does bluecarp want to
be? It isn't that hard to cook the potatoes separately. It
isn't that non-strict to include potatoes and pick out the
meat. Judgment call.

I know what you're saying about the onions, but a solid block of beef is not
going to somehow "inhale" a bunch of carbs inside it. Everything will be on
the outside, as coating.

Pat in TX