Slow cooker recommendation

[Anonymous]

I need to know what to buy! Please help if you have a high-end slow-cooker that works and tell me why you like it! Also, what is the difference between a crock pot and a slow cooker?

[Anonymous]

I would love a recommendation as well. I used to associate slow cooker meals with unhealthy canned ingredients but after talking to many people it sounds like you can make healthy meals in a slow cooker

[Anonymous]

A crock pot and slow cooker are the same thing. I would get

a Rival

big but not too big (depending on family size you want to get 2+ meals out of it but not 10 meals

one big ceramic bowl and not two compartments

Make sure the bowl can come out of the electric part and go in the dishwasher

a timer where it can switch to warm mode after it finished cooking

Stainless steel

[Anonymous]

The All Clad deluxe slow cooker (with the aluminum insert) has gotten excellent reviews. I'm thinking of buying it this year. It is very expensive but I like to save and splurge on electrics.

http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/8260341/index.cfm?pkey=cpressure-slow-cookers&cm_src=hero

[Anonymous]

for those of you who have the high-end slow cookers...does your meal ever have an electrical taste?
I have a cheap one and I hate using it because the food tastes like electricity, which doesn't taste good.

[Anonymous]

We have the cuisinart slow cooker (stainless exterior, ceramic? insert). These are the things that I don't love about it:

* I think it is too hot. "Modern" food safety means that the low setting is probably 275. Older recipes don't work.

* Probably related to the first, but we both work full time. When you add in a commute and school drop off/pickup, it is almost ten hours that we are out of the house. Even with the auto switch to Warm, things are often burned on the bottom or dried out by the time we get home.

I do love it on the weekends and want to get more recipes to make in it. If you are good at freezing and reheating, it is a good size. If you aren't good at freezing and reheating, it might be too big. It makes a LOT of food. You can't really cut the recipes to a smaller size, because the slow cooker needs to be at least half full to work properly.