Experiment in the Kitchen - Chicken Adobo

Posts from the past!

On this day I attempted to make chicken adobo (a recipe from my husband's childhood - we have had it a couple times previously and once when his mother was visiting and made it for us). Normally, this is a dish cooked for 1 1/2 to 2 hrs in the oven at 350F. It is one whole chicken, cut up; a cup and a half of soy sauce; a half cup of water; and 3/4 cup of vinegar served over rice.

Now, I thought that this would be a recipe that would lend itself well to being in the crockpot - a recipe that needs to cook for a decent length of time, has a goodly amount of liquid and where the meat would taste good the more tender you managed to get it. Unfortunately, due to some quirk of physics, this was not to be the case. The chicken came out strangely dry and stringy after it's time spent in the food sauna and the flavor did not penetrate well. All in all, this experiment was a Failure.