Rival SCVE500-A2 5-Quart Slow Cooking Crock Pot Cooker, Decorative Stoneware

I have had this slow cooker for a good long time now and am asking my mother for another one for my birthday this month! I love the keep warm feature and even reheat food in it on this setting (yes, it says not to but I know what it can do!).

I have tried other brands including the ''famous'' Crock Pot brand thinking that if I paid more, I'd get more. NOT so!! My mother adopted my old Rival slow cooker that was given to me at 23, I am now nearly 47 and it is still going strong. I have been using slow cookers for what feels like 100 years and have found no better than this. I have also used the crock in the oven with great success though not often as the point of a slow cooker is to use it as a slow cooker and save my electric bill from the evil oven. ;=). I bake in this, stew, braise, make steel cut oats for a ready made breakfast when I get up and a thousand other things. It also makes my baked beans to perfection!

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This crockpot is both functional and beautiful. It works very well and I'm always satisfied with the finished dishes, and best of all it's a beauty on the countertop when I'm cooking. One drawback, the lid is made from very cheap material and the handle cracked and broke. I'm now in the market for a replacement lid. I'd highly recommend this product.

First of all we bought this crockpot for its looks ... not always a good thing to do. I've had it for about 3 years and since we don't usually have need to use it a great deal I would say it's probably been used about a dozen or so times since we've owned it. Problems: the low setting cooks way too high but that wasn't much of a problem since I'm usually home when I use it; the warm setting does basically nothing so I pretty much ignored that feature right off the bat. Now for the biggie: it's our fault that we didn't notice it when we purchased the crockpot but there must have been a hairline crack on the outside that developed into a major crack. We can see where it probably had started on the bottom of the crock. I have learned since reading other reviews on this style of crock that this is a major flaw in the manufacturing as others have had the same problem.

Now for the irritating part: try calling this crazy company to see if a replacement crock can be...Read more