🍲 Crock-Pot 4-Quart Manual Slow Cooker, Black: Effortless Cooking and Time-saving Convenience Review

Used 3 times. Big enough for many uses, but small enough to make a meal for 1 or 2 people. I mainly use it for bean soups. Temperature controller just right. With overnight cooking, you don't have to worry about overheating. It's big enough to hold a large chicken or similarly sized meat, and has room for any veggies you want to add. I would even recommend this size for one person as there are so many uses.

I used the slow cooker exactly six times to cook oatmeal overnight for six hours. Failed the seventh time. First thing this morning I thought maybe I absent-mindedly forgot to turn it on because I automatically set it to heat when I made tea, but it was still cold. So I turned it up big and went shopping. I came home and the oil still hasn't melted and now it's terribly cool, still damp. What a disappointing purchase.

Say what you want about the instant pot and I'll tell you who needs instant food! That's cool. You can make the whole place smell good and the food comes out perfectly cooked. High, low and warm temperatures. Very convenient! Yesterday I put all the chicken pieces, a packet of frozen carrots, a can of cream soup and a can of water in my freezer. Ideal. And people upstairs kept asking what smelled so good. Of course, I said an old family recipe that was passed down from generation to generation.

Unfortunately, the cheapest crock pot was also the least tech and most attractive (in my opinion), so I bought it. In fact, I've never had one before, and the novelty won't go away for a while. I like the simple dial with 4 settings (High, Low, Off and Warm) - no confusing digital controls here. Detachable iron stone pot hardly needs to be cleaned; it almost doesn't stick. The four liter size holds a massive amount of food. Not enough for a party but enough for a few days.

This multi cooker is life. You want that pot. With low, high and warm settings, what more could you ask for. You can leave it on low and go somewhere and then come back and have your soup or chili, or turn it on high and steam some BBQ pork or fry up some salsa chicken tacos. I can not cook. That's why the slow cooker does it for me. You would have to leave it for a very long time to burn anything. (Stir from time to time) I don't have an oven or those four-eyed things that appear above. But…

I have a more expensive slow cooker with all the digital bells and whistles from another manufacturer. However, after using both a few times, I pull this one out. It just cooks better. I don't know if the other slow cooker just cooks "too hot" or what the difference is, but the food tastes better when it comes out of the slow cooker. My only complaint is that I wish it had a power indicator so you know it's actually on. One day I put food in the slow cooker and flipped the switch to the down…