Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

In less than a week after we received it, this little wonder has already cooked 3 meals for our 3-person household: oatmeal for breakfast, a small roast for dinner, and some beef ribs for dinner. The steel-cut oats (1 cup in 4 cups of water) cooked overnight at Low. Creamy and delicious with some added sweetener, half n half, and cinnamon. The roast and the ribs cooked all day at High for 2 hours, then 6 hours at Low. The oatmeal and the roast were great, but the ribs . . . ahhhh, the ribs! Fork tender and oh so flavorful. (Now the ribs had the longer bones on them but the bones were short enough to set upright in the slow cooker; we lucked out on that, but we should have measured the cooker's depth and the rib length before buying them!) We really love that the cooker doesn't generate a lot of heat into the kitchen. Don't worry that the lid doesn't have a steam hole in it; 3 small steam-outlet grooves are built into the rim of the stoneware pot where the lid fits. This cooker isn't fancy like the big expensive ones, but it's well-designed and its 3 settings (low, high, and warm) get the job done, so don't be afraid of the low price. Can't wait to cook some chili!