Pineapple Chicken Failure

I wanted to make something yummy and easy for dinner.

So, I found this in my "Sounds Yummy" Board:

Looks fabulous right?!  And the instructions were super easy....

"Try this. Crockpot! 1 cup pineapple juice 1/2 cup packed brown sugar 1/3 cup light soy sauce 2 pounds chicken breast tenderloins. Cook on low 6-8 hrs and they should just fall apart."

As usual when cooking, I don't think I read the directions thoroughly before starting.  I thought starting four or five hours before dinner would be plenty of time.

Here are the ingredients I used:

The instructions were pretty straightforward.  Since I was starting a bit behind schedule, I cut up the tenderloins a little so they would cook faster.  I also cooked them on "high" thinking "if it takes 6-8 hours on low, surely 3-5 hours on high should do the trick!" 

About two hours in, I wasn't getting the results I was expecting.......

The whole mixture was still pretty soupy.  The picture looked like the brown sugar kind of caramelized.   So that's what I was expecting.  I thought the liquid would cook off and the chicken would end up with kind of a gooey coating.  After two hours, this didn't seem to be happening.  I wanted the whole thing to be over in about three hours (hence me turning it on high), but I decided to just keep cooking and hope for the best.

Well past my 3-4 hour dinner time, the chicken was still looking pretty soupy......

Some of the liquid had boiled away, but still not nearly enough.  I let it cook for another hour or so.....finally we just got too hungry and decided to try it.  The mixture was still REALLY soupy and not even close to what the Pin looked like, but the chicken was well cooked.

So, after cooking the mixture on high for just over 5 hours, this is what came out:

The chicken was really moist...a little too moist...and was still covered in liquid.  I never got the texture I was expecting from the picture, or the look.  It actually looks more appetizing in this picture than it did in real life.  It wasn't something I was excited about eating....but we tried it anyway.  The flavor wasn't half bad.  You could definitely taste the pineapple and it was very sweet.  It was hard to get over the look of it though.

Thanks for checking out my newest adventure!  Stay tuned for the next one!


Afterthoughts:

Has anyone else ever tried to alter the time on a crockpot with these results?  Or could it just be this recipe is a dud?