Sure takes a while.

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It smells like roast in here.  Of course.  At about two and a half hours in, I checked it.  I mean, it could be called done.  By how I usually do things, this would be called done.  Overdone, really.  And, yet, that isn't how pot roast is down.  My way, to date, has been to take a chuck and turn it into something between a prime rib and a ribeye steak.  It has a lot more bite to it, my way.

Do I even like pot roast?  I'll... find out.  Though I will go to the less done side of things?  Will see.  Hoping to have the pulled beef sort of texture, without it having no structure whatever.  I'm not sure if that is possible.  I really do want to have pulled beef, for tacos, taco salads, and such.  Burger is... just... off, lately.  I think they have started filling it with the bone slurry they pull from the carcass.  Or is it just that they store burger, or the meat they grind it into, too long, sometimes?  I just can't be sure.  Just that burger isn't very good lately.  It seems... off... too squishy.

I may even try other types of roast.  Though, honestly, chuck isn't much more expensive than various round, and yet is much tastier.  Beef, of all sorts, is way too expensive now though too, generally.  No way to get away from it, I guess.  It's really the government not wanting us to eat beef.  It really is.  I don't think president Trump is going to do much there.  He may agree with his advisors on that.  Wrongly, as time will tell.  Though, whether people are wrong, or understand and want the "unintended" consequences is totally a different thing.

Hoping it will taste as good as it is smelling.  If the numbers are right, I still have another... two hours?  Minimum.  Three to five hours if it just doesn't work.  Though, from what I am seeing, it looks more like between two and three hours, with the veggies and potatoes.  I may even put those in now.

The carrots and potatoes will take the longest.  The slicing of the turnips will make those the shortest, save maybe the celery chunks.  Those will probably be done about together.  What else was I going to put in?  Ah, mushrooms.  Those will be done before the turnips or celery, but... close enough I can probably ladle those all out together.  Yeah, I'll put them in now, and check in a half hour, then every fifteen minutes.  Uhm... so hungry.  

Oh, should pull butter out, so it is warm enough to use by the time the foods are ready.  Will be adding butter to the gravy, as well as with a few slices of keto-ish bread.  I tried that Irish one, but that tasted... bitter.  There is bitter butter, but this wasn't that, and I don't like that.  Found another, name(r) brand, on sale.  So grabbed... plenty.  Unsalted.  Bleh.

Later.