I tweak this a little bit -- put the baby carrots and potatoes (with skin on is better) in the bottom of the crockpot. Place roast on top. Empty a can of Campbell's golden mushroom soup into a small bowl. Take one envelope of Lipton's Beefy Onion soup and stir it into the golden mushroom soup. Dump the soup mixture into the crock pot on top of the roast. (If you're real anal like me you can spread it around.) Turn on the crock pot (low) & go do something else for 6-8 hours (work, play, whatever). The roast practically falls apart on its own and the soups end up making a nice sauce that's just like gravy and really doesn't need any thickening at all.
This two-soup combination also makes a killer beef stew if you switch out the roast for beef stew meat & add some frozen mixed vegetables, although for that I put the stew meat in first, dump in 1/4 cup of flour & stir it around to coat the meat before adding in the rest of it.
As for steaks, everyone in the family likes medium rare and I get the ones that get too close to the flame & get charred! I can only eat them medium rare if I put lots of pepper on it!