Crock-Pot SCVP600-W Oval 6-Quart Smart-Pot Slow Cooker, White
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Crock-Pot SCVP600-W Oval 6-Quart Smart-Pot Slow Cooker, White
Customer Review: Don't waste your $$$ on this pot of disappointment!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
We received this crock pot for a wedding gift. I was really excited because I remembered my mother making lots of slow cooker meals while I was growing up. During the first month we were married I tried to use the pot but ended up with an over cooked, burned mess! I was very disappointed and figured it was because I was a newly wed and had little experience preparing meals! Here we are 5 years later and my cooking has much improved, but the pot has not! Every recipe I have tried has ended up over done and burned around the edges. I have tried various recipes, meats, veggies and tried using the different time settings. Nothing seems to help! This product cooks way too hot! I thought maybe we received a faulty model where the thermostat is set too high, but after reading other people's experience I think it is just poorly designed. I will be looking for a new pot that actually cooks slowly. What a disappointment from Rival!Customer Review: Overcooks food!!
Summary: 1 Stars
I received this as a housewarming gift over a year ago. Since then I have used it a handful of times and only once did it produce what I would consider to be quality food. It typically overcooks and dries food out. Just this week I put together a crock pot egg bake recipe and left it overnight on low, the 10 hour setting. I checked it at 8 hours (knowing that it typically cooks faster) and the food outside was completely burnt, completely ruining the dish as every bite had the same burnt taste. My mother actually has the same crockpot and has had similar experiences, just recently it overcooked her twice baked mashed potatoes, again burning around the edges and drying everything else out. The only reason I'm writing a review is that I'm on Amazon trying to find another crock pot and found this one in my search results. I just threw mine away. It's a complete waste of money and I will not be buying another Rival crock pot.Customer Review: Gets way too hot
Summary: 1 Stars
As our family has grown so has our need for a larger slow cooker. We have a simple 4 quart Rival Crock Pot with 3 settings: off, low, and high. It's worked great for over 15 years, but it doesn't hold enough food. Since Rival served us well the first time we bought this Crock Pot at a store...without checking the reviews here first.
As others have said, this Crock Pot gets way too hot on low. I tried two different recipes and they both came out very overdone. Potatoes near the edge in a pot of scalloped potatoes came out black. I wrote to Rival's customer service about this but received no reply so I returned the pot to the store.
Perhaps it is the more recently manufactured pots that have this problem - those that say it cooks fine have been using theirs for years.
Avoid this slow cooker, at least until they iron out the problems with it.
Customer Review: Don't use this pot around small children
Summary: 1 Stars
I've had this crock pot for a couple of years, and I rarely use it. I agree with other reviewers that it gets too hot too fast, and tends to overcook food.
But that is not my main concern. For me, the biggest problem with this crock pot is that the metal exterior of the pot gets extremely HOT. I mean untouchably hot. I suppose this is the component that is meant to heat the ceramic insert. I have 2 small children, and on the rare times that I do use this pot, I have to put it in a far-away corner of my kitchen for fear that someone will get severly burned if they touch it.
I am shopping for a new crock pot that is safer. I wish I had known before I got this that it heated from the outside-in. I would not recommend it.
Customer Review: A Failure
Summary: 1 Stars
I've owned Crock Pots since the seventies and purchased this pot when a sibling broke my old crock insert.
I ended up returning this pot for two reasons:
1) The pot would happily boil ingredients on the low setting. That setting is supposed to be approximately 200F with the high at 300F. The 300F would boil violently. It appears to be a trend that these Red Chinese made pots simply don't have the quality control that the old Pots made here had.
2) After a couple of weeks on the counter, the touch pad began working only intermittently; that sealed the decision to return this pot.
I replaced it with another Crock Pot with the old-fashioned manual control and have been satisfied with it.