Product Description

4 Quart Oval Slow cooker with full body coo touch handle design for easy carrying & moving. Holds up to a 5 lb chicken .3 Heat settings- Hi, Low & Keep warm. Beautiful black with chrome accent color design.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6474 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Color: white & chrome
• Brand: Hamilton Beach
• Model: 33141
• Released on: 2005-05-01
• Dimensions: 10.93 pounds

Features

• Versatile family-size slow cooker with 3 heat settings
• Removable 4-quart oval stoneware crock doubles as serving dish
• Glass lid designed with stainless-steel rim and cool-touch knob
• Dishwasher-safe lid and stoneware crock; recipes included
• Measures approximately 12 by 12 by 9 inches

Amazon.com Product Description
Enjoy healthy, home-cooked meals even with a busy schedule thanks to this easy-to-use oval-shaped slow cooker. With its generous 4-quart capacity, the unit works great for cooking up soups, casseroles, pot roasts, curries, and more. Simply add ingredients to the unit's stoneware crock, insert it in the cooker, and turn the temperature-control dial from off to keep warm, low, or high. The slow cooker's see-through glass lid, with a stainless-steel rim and stay-cool knob, traps in heat and moisture and allows for checking on food at a glance. For added versatility, the removable crock doubles as a serving dish and can go in the refrigerator to store leftovers or into the dishwasher, along with the lid, for quick cleanup. Integrated stay-cool handles provide safe transport, and recipes come included. Perfect for meals at home or to take to a potluck, the slow cooker measures approximately 12 by 12 by 9 inches.

Customer Reviews

Loved it, for a while
I bought this cooker seven months ago, and really liked it. It's quite handsome, and I have no complaints about how it works. I've made many fine meals in it. Sadly, the knob broke a few weeks or a month ago. I glued it back together, but today it broke apart again. I don't think it will take a second gluing any better than the first, so now if I want to use it I have to use pliers or something, and I have to count clicks--which are not as distinct as I'd like--to know quite which setting it's on.

Such a shame this otherwise great cooker is now incredibly difficult to use because of such a "small" detail!

This was my first full size slow cooker (I have a 1.5 qt one too) and I've learned a couple of things I'll share for people looking for their first. The 4 quart size has been really good. I first bought it when I was living alone, so I'd have lots of leftovers, which I love. Now I live with my boyfriend, and the size is still good--we usually have enough left over for one or both of us to have lunch of it the next day. The oval shape has worked out well also; it's possible to fit larger things in it than I'd be able to in a round cooker of the same volume.

My next one, though, will be programmable. I'd thought the feature was silly, because you can only go from high to warm or low to warm, not high to low, or high to low to warm. Now that I have some experience using it, I see that the ability to switch to warm automatically at a certain time would be immensely useful, for those times when a recipe calls for 6 hours on low, but you'll be away from home for 8 hours.

Good luck choosing one!

I like it a lot!
Like most other slow cookers the high setting is burn setting if you have SLOW cooking in mind. The high setting is good for bringing the contents up to temp fast, just don't leave it there much over one hour! For $20 I thought this crock might look and feel cheap. It does NOT. I was surprised that it had a glass lid! We've only used it a few times, but so far it has far exceeded our expectations!

knob broke after 2 uses...
This unit cooks well and heats well. It is not easy to clean ( I guess because it is black; I always think it is clean until it dries and then you see it's not). The biggest negative issue I have with this unit is the temperature control knob breaking after only 2 uses. It cracked in half and fell off while sitting there heating. This must be cheaply made for it to do this.