Hamilton Beach 8 QT Slow Cooker 8 Quart

I had a smaller slow cooker and purchased this larger one at Amazon simply because I'm accustomed to cooking for many days and freezing the extra. I'm fairly new at slow cooking. This cooker not only sloved my problem but also turned out to be a very good cooker. Of course, I first looked at it's reviews and Consumer Reports rating. Exceptional slow cooker at an exceptional price.

I bought this Hamilton Beach advertised-as-8-quarts crock pot to replace a so-called 7-quart Rival crock pot, that the control knob had broken off.

When I unpacked the Hamilton Beach unit, the pot looked hardly any larger than the 7 quart Rival's pot. So I used a marked container to measure it's capacity with water, and found that it holds only 6 quarts, 30 oz. when filled to the brim (2 ounces less than 7 quarts).

Incidentally, I measured my broken Rival's 7-quart pot, and it holds only 6 quarts, 14 oz, which is 18 oz short of 7 quarts.

2. SAME FLIMSY BASE AS THE RIVAL POT ~~~~~~

The Rival crock pot I had worked fine, until the control knob broke off. They used a thin plastic rod, which apparently from the effects of time and heat, just snapped off after a couple of years.

Even though this new Hamilton Beach unit is from a different manufacturer, unfortunately it appears to have the same type of base as the Rival...Read more

This unit cooks as well as any crock pot. I suppose they all work pretty well since the older one I had previously borrowed from my neighbor worked fine too.....

This is a Nice and big crock pot so you can cook large meals for freezing....I have been very happy with the purchase, although I kind of wish I had gotten a programmable one