Not a dumb question at all, but if the sauce is cooked, it's fine. I'd serve it over the chops as a sauce and if it's not thick enough, maybe make a slurry with cornstarch and thicken it up just a little. Maybe some rice.....

It sounds good to me!

Annie

Your problem is putting something as easy and quick as pork chops in a slow cooker.
Try it again flour those chops and put them on a cookie sheet, cover with your hawiian BBQ sauce and put them into a pre heated 350 oven for 20 minutes. Then take one out and cut into it to see if the pink is gone, of so serve, iof not add more sauce and cook another 10 minutes.

Is the gifted bbq sauce thick?...probably bottled with a thickener like exanthan gum that is in most bottled dressings and sauces. Could use some moisture like stock or, if not too late, a chopped big onion and celery rib that will sweat down for more moisture, or just a 1/2 cup water. If the sauce is cooked with the meat it is fine to eat. If you marinated the raw meat in the bottled sauce it needs to be heated to a safe high temp. Never use a raw meat marinade on the side of a dish without heating. Just add the meat in the pot with the marinade. -as your post seems to mention.

Some bottled sauces need a bit of help by adding some fresh ingredients to perk up the flavors.

Well chops are done and they are tasty. The bbq, (really more of hosin sauce, is still watery). I am going to try thickening the bbq sauce in the pot with some corn starch so it is more of a glaze.

Thanks for the help!

Have you ever brushed a sauce over meat while it was oven roasting or on the grill. Remember how it thickened up as the moisture in it evaporated?
By putting sauce on meat in the slow cooker, all the juices from the meat come out and dilute the sauce. Next time stick the chops into the oven for 2o minutes....quick and easy and soooo good.

Anyone remember shake and bake? I never used the product, I made my own seasoned flour/crumb mix, but the principle was to shake pork chops or chicken pieces in a bag with a seasoned breading mix, and slap onto a baking sheet and into the oven for 20 to 25 minutes....and after 10 minutes, if you were really rushed, you could shake out some frozen french fries into a pan and stick them into the same oven...and if you wanted to be fancy and didn't have picky kids, you could add some hoysin or sweet and sour or even bottled BBQ sauce.
Easy-peasy....dinner on the plate in less than 30 minutes, unless your chops were really really thick or your chicken more than say 4 pounds.

If you have oil or fat on the chops, nothing will stay on them for too long.

dcarch

Besides what Lindac said about choosing a different cooking method, you have to be extra vigilant and avoid buying meat that has been so-called 'enhanced', i.e. water-logged with sodium/ broth solutions. Hormel 'Always Tender' is a brand to avoid...particularly awful product both taste & texture wise. But by no means the only offender. I goofed and bought some chicken pieces in Aldi that was enhanced with supposedly up to 12% solution. In truth, after I drained the water that freely flowed out of the meat and weighed it along with the absorbent pad, the amount of solution was a lot more than 12%. It's out right thievery, IMO. And dangerous if you are on a low sodium diet.

Oh, duh, 'watery' is in the header post. I read the copy as thick and sliding off...

Yet i don't find thin and watery as a problem. It needs moisture to braise. should reduce and thicken especially with a chopped onion and veg, then stick blend will make a nice sauce. Corn starch a back-up thickener.

I strained and thickened the sauce with cornstarch and boiled it for a few minutes -- it was delish!

I wish I hadn't use so much of the BBQ sauce. I had way more sauce then meat and I can't get it again since it is from Hawaii.

Yeah, that's a problem that I don't think can be solved. Unless they ship! I see that World Market has "World Famous Huli Huli Sauce" available....

Annie

Sooo....you are saving maybe 20 minutes by cooking the pork chops in a crock pot....but spending easily that much time thickening the sauce....and the result is not nearly as good as just baking ( or grilling!) them.

LindaC, if I've been working for 10 hours in the snow, the last thing I want to do is "just toss a pork chop into the oven" and I don't like anything grilled well enough to grill it, I HATE to grill. I want to take off my 3 layers of clothes, take off my boots, put something hot on a plate and eat it and then just sit down for a while. Seasoning, breading and baking a pork chop is not on my "to do" list, especially since the last time we had pork chops I gave mine to the dogs and just ate the side dishes, I don't care for them very much. Plus, I think long cooking actually makes them edible, especially if there's a decent sauce. Amanda won't eat pork chops at all and Ashley will only eat them marinated and grilled. I don't even really want them grilled if someone else grills them! Elery loves the darned things, though, so he and the dogs eat them and I'll usually just pass.

So, you go ahead and toss them in the oven, I'll find the Raisin Bran, LOL.

Annie

Well....as someone who lives where "Pork is King"....and who has done a share of 12 hour days ( but for sure not as many as you have) and who is NOT a morning person.....I would much rather come home, toss a chop in a bag of "stuff" and pop it into the oven than even THINK of dinner at 6 AM. At 6....my thoughts of dinner would be "I'll worry about that later!" LOL!
I'll cook your dinner....you feed my family breakfast!!

Stirfry--I would save the left over sauce and stash it in the freezer to stir into some baked beans or shredded pork for bbq sandwiches at a later date.

LindaC, that's what leftovers are for. Breakfast. (grin) My Grandpa came here from Canada when he was about 4 or 5, his family were farmers and he was always a farmer. It was not at all unusual for him to have a cold pork chop, leftover fish or whatever for breakfast before morning chores. His favorite was pie and hot coffee, right off the wood stove, he had it for breakfast regularly. He would tell me that it wasn't all that different from toast and jam.

So, would your family eat pie for breakfast? Now that's a meal I could get into, LOL.

Annie

Oh yeah....pie is just bread and fruit....and popovers are eggs toast and milk.
When i had family at home, they always knew "don't talk to mom in the morning"...or " If you want something ask Mom in the morning, she'll just say um-hum".
I married my husband for better, for worse, but not for breakfast....LOL!