I’ve been “burned” more than once by this crock of crap! My mom bought a crock pot for us for an anniversary present a few years ago and I swear the new ones DONT cook! They heat. That’s about it. I can put in potatoes on high for 6-7 hours and they’re still hard. Maybe I have a faulty one but today I’m THROUGH with it! Took my corned beef out and put it in a good ol Dutch oven to cook properly!!!
I may hang onto the crock pot to try and render fat and make soap. It deserves a crappier fate tho. I’d like to take a crowbar to it.

I've taken to cooking my corned beef in an instant pot, pressure cooker. Only takes a short amount of time and gets nice and tender and stays moist.

I don’t have one of those. But my cousin was married to a Cuban fellow and he made us a roast in a pressure cooker. It was amazing!

Well, you need to get one. They aren't overly expensive and you can cook a pot roast from frozen to falling apart in about 90 minutes.

The El-Smash-O ...has arrived !

Now younz see how mean I can really be

My last crockpot before this one had the opposite problem. Even on the lowest setting it would supercook everything. Forget about putting something in it and going to work. It would be charred when you got home. The one I have now is a Hamilton Beach and it works as it should.

Mine is a large one and is fine too. I love slow barely simmering bones in water all night to make the best bone collegian ever. Freeze in jars and use it for thick great chook soups, stews, anything.

It cooks everything else fine too. Like Angela's, sometimes it wants to simmer a little too hard for good gelled collegian, so all I do is set the lid off kilter a wee bit so it has more air to keep it slow simmer.

Good tools make a happy chef, bad ones make smashingly unhappy ones ...

We do have a large crock pot that works well. It is a Kenmore. It's bigger than we need, most of the time, so use the instant pot in slow cook mode for all day cooking.

I think there was a big issue with the Frontier Woman or something similar sounding crockpots that were garbage.

You ain’t kidding Smash is unhappy with it!!!
Get the right tool for the job, right?!

You women that cant cook need more practice in the kitchen.

Ill tell ya another tool that has made my rice cooking days fun and easy. A rice cooker. Mine is small, holds around five cups, but can measure for anything less too. Add water. All to the line indicated. Push "cook" and 45 minutes later, perfect rice every time. The aroma of jasmine rice as it cooks is pure heaven. No more stirring or worries.

I have SJA to thank for his advice on some fine tools for Asian stir fry.

A happy chef indeed. No cussing....unless they are happy exclamations of success

LOL ! There ya go again ! Troublemaker....

I feel the same way about new countertop grills. They have hot spots and spots that don't cook. Will pay ten times more for one that works but can't find one!

I can’t BAKE.
I can cook very well, smarty pants!
I always tell Chuckie (who has a sweet tooth) “I’ll cook you a flamingo before I’ll bake a pie….and it’ll be the tastiest flamingo you’ll ever have”

How do you get them out of the zoo?

The one I have is a 6 qt. I don't who makes it but it cooks good .

Providence, they’re real easy to snatch up by the neck . You just gotta watch out for them long legs

what brand Crock pot is a brand but lots of knock off slow cookers

I just dug mine out this week have not used it since pre-covid

we had a potluck at work

it was interesting probably 10 slow cookers at work and most of them were nearly the same model virtually all crock pot brand

mine has high low keep warm with a timer for how long you wat before it switches to keep warm
it must be 15 + years old

I wasn't asking it to do a ton just get it hot from refrigerator temp as I had made up 6 quarts earlier in the week
it works I used it for a month of perpetual pot and would set it to cook for 4 hours every night .

We got rid of the crock pot. The instapot took its place. Love being able to brown a roast up in it prior to pressure cooking. We use the thing twice weekly.

I've got a Rival, a Hamilton Beach and never had issues with em. Sometimes ill borrow my moms when I need to do a group thing and need extra cookers, hers is a Ninja. No issues there either

I used my insta pot alot.
Pressure then slow cook.

Based on the commercials on TV you are supposed to call a doctor.

She heads the hubby heels.

I've bought several over the years and they all boil grease into oil no problem sounds like you got a bad one.

I have 3. Just bought one that has the lock down sealed lid. Got it for taking meals to potluck cookouts. You have to cook on low to match the regular ones. Never had an issue with not cooking. But new ones they changed the settings. All the way to right is warm now used to be high. Ask me how I know! Lol

very True

that sounds like I would have the paint marker out labeling it is short order

Love my digital one, is goes to keep warm after cooking at the set time. Works great for all day cooks while out hunting.
A roaster is also a handy cooking device for all in one pot meals.

Sounds like you got a lemon so you think they are all bad. Not really good logic.

I have several of different sizes and they all work great. One is brand new.

Our 20 some year old one gave out so we bought a bit larger one (8 quart) slow cooker. This one has 3 settings, high, low and warm. We have no problems cooking roasting chickens in this machine and potatoes, carrots etc. will be soft in a couple hours when on high. We often brown say a loin or meat then put in the slow cooker on high. I have learned now to put the veggies in later so they don't get too soft.

No complaints with ours.,

Bryce

I agree I prob got a lemon. I never claimed to be logical; thus the crowbar.

Get a Pressure cooker. Love them and save time.

Take it easy on the crowbar, LOL!

We've tried a few over the years, not a fan, they were either too hot on high or too cold on low, never had a "good" meal out of them.
What works for me is a cast dutch oven, brown your meat on the stove top, add your liquid and into a low oven. Yeah, it's not fast, or quite as "easy" but the results are far superior. YMMV....

There is no way a potato should take seven hours and be rock hard. Something is wrong with that one. Get another one. Sam's club had $50 ones on clearance for $40 last week but it was the digital one with buttons and a display.

see there you are with that not logical , so much better pounding ,beating , destruction tools than bar intended for prying.

if you don't have a pressure cooker they are very handy for fast cooking , I cook most of my pheasants in 19 minutes under pressure then pick the meat
good for all sorts of stuff then , same with chicken thighs for making soups or other things you can dump bunch of thighs in and 19 minutes pressure pull let cool and pick .

yes you probably got a lemon of a slow cooker

potatoes in a pressure cooker only need 7-10 minutes under pressure unless they are huge most of the time it works fine to fire it up get up to pressure let it cook 5 minutes then shut off the stove and leave it 10 more minutes before opening the valve they keep cooking and stay under pressure for a while with no additional heat.

You have to plug it in y'know?

Feel the cord while plugged in. If hot you may have a poor lead or connection. If it has a liner take that out and see how hot the shell gets. As many have stated you may have a dud.

Bryce