[NFB-InTheKitchen] looking for a new slow cooker

[sandrastreeter381 at gmail.com]

Thanks--I did a new search on Amazon, and found one I think will work--supposed to arrive Monday! Just in time to make jambalaya for our Center of the Blind Mardi Gras potluck in a couple weeks! Reviews highly-rating, and there was a lot of good descriptive info.  Here's the Amazon title: :


> Slow Cooker, Techwood Electric Skillet 7.5-Quart Extra-large Capacity


Sandra

In these days we find that our hands are more often upon the bowstring than the harp. . . Yet there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater .
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Subject: Re: [NFB-InTheKitchen] looking for a new slow cooker

Hi Sandra,

Sounds like you and I had the same slow cooker and I think mine had a nonstick coating issue. I don’t have any suggestions except that you might try using a cooking bag. It’s a plastic bag that’s heat resistant and it’s like one of those oven bags that you put in for turkeys or whatever you want to use it for. There are bags that are created for cooking in a slow cooker. That would save you some cleanup and then you wouldn’t need to deal with the nonstick coating issue. I loved my slow cooker. I have several now, but none of them have the metal croc. I always found that to be light so maybe we don’t have the same cooker? Anyway, try that and see if that doesn’t at least help you till you get a new one. And then I promise you by the time you get the new one you won’t need to clean it up because you’ll have cooking bags. I’ve gone to a Hamilton Beach glass cooker And I haven’t had any trouble with those. The controls are invoked by using a dial which clicks into each setting. That’s still pretty standard. Your best bet might be target that’s where I’ve always found my cookers.
Shelley, Queen of bells, out
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> On Jan 17, 2026, at 11:45 PM, sandrastreeter381 at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> Hey, all:
> 
> Open to suggestions here. The West Bend slow cooker I've had for about 3
> years now-metal, rectangular, 6-7 qt with a removable griddle underneath and
> a simple dial control for temp-is losing its nonstick coating, so I need to
> replace it. It's very similar to one I grew up with, but that one didn't
> develop the nonstick coating issue-apparently, a different company
> manufactures them now-lesser quality, for sure. So, I looked into slow
> cookers at Amazon, and there is one, a rare one, that doesn't require the
> heavy lifting of a crock off a base or for carrying anywhere, but the temps
> are controlled by a touch pad, of course. I love the lightness, portability
> and convenience of the one that's on its way out, but I'm not likely to find
> a quality unit like that. You could even brown your meat as the unit sat on
> its griddle-super-simple. Any thoughts from someone who's recently bought a
> blind-friendly slow cooker and maybe is as picky as me, LOL? I look forward
> to getting some clarity here. Thanks, in advance, for any suggestions.
> 
> 
> 
> Sandra
> 
> In these days we find that our hands are more often upon the bowstring than
> the harp. . . Yet there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love
> is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater .
> (JRR Tolkien)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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