Rival 38601 Smart Pot 6-Quart Slow Cooker

Pros: Large size; Neutral color
Cons: No way to set it directly to warm; Exterior gets very hot

Crock pots are good for those times when speedy completion of a meal is not a priority. With the slower speed of cooking, crock pots can often bring out more flavors in your food and they allow families and individuals the opportunity to begin ...

Pros: Cooks a great stew every time without worry.
Cons: Nothing except you need some space to store it.

One of the things we try and do for the Christmas holiday is purchase something for the home. It's not really a present but rather something we've wanted or needed and we use the holiday gift giving as an excuse for purchasing it. This year I was ...

Pros: I love the Oval shape.
Cons: Doesn't prepare dinner on it's own :-)

While I use our crockpots more in the colder months, I use them all through the year. We actually use two since we have a big family and some of the members are vegetarians. Therefore, I often have two versions of one meal cooking. The main and...

Pros: large capacity, settings are easy to figure out
Cons: cooks everything too quickly

I've been happily using a 4-quart Rival Crock Pot for several years now. I had no issues with it but apparently my family was sick of watching my Sunday Football chili overflow every single week... I received the Rival 6-Quart Smart Pot Slow ...

Pros: Timed cooking; keep warm setting; large capacity; adaptation instructions; holds heat well
Cons: Can't cook small amounts (need to adapt most slow cooker recipes); gets hot

Once before I owned a crock pot, but it was a second-hand thing bought for $10, and it didn't heat very well any more. I threw it out some time ago, and kept telling myself I'd get another one. Finally I made good on that promise. I love gadgets, so I...

Pros: Easy to use, works well, wonderful tasting food
Cons: Heavy

A wonderful cook, I am not. In fact, get me away from the grill and my renowned spaghetti, and I should not cook anything other than a PB&J. Imagine my surprise when my sister decided to send me a crock pot for Christmas (I am still trying to determine...

Pros: lights for each program, easy to use, meat still tender at 4 hours of cooking
Cons: Whole Slow Cooker, outside gets very hot,you have to be careful not to burn yourself

When my father came to visit in October of last year, he wanted to get me something for my home. I wanted a "Crockpot" which at the time was something I couldn't afford on my own because I wanted a nice one. For $49.99 my father and I picked out the ...

Pros: pre-set timers with touch pads, "keep warm" feature, indicator lights!
Cons: longer cook times, exterior gets HOT

At this date, I have 4 slow cookers, or "crock pots" (I learned that's a trademark with Rival, and that other makers make "slow cookers"0 in my collection of kitchen appliances. Three are in actual use during a given week in my home. One of these, as ...

Pros: Capable of holding large cuts of meat, easy to use and to clean.
Cons: So large that it's hard to store and is inappropriate for small quantity cooking.

It's hard to believe that in 40 yrs. I've never owned a crock pot until now! I'd heard from slow cooker owners that all the food tastes the same and that they're more trouble than they're worth. With the reemergence of "comfort food" I decided I'd give...

Pros: Does everything it should, and does all of them well too.
Cons: Heavy, not necessarily easy or convenient to clean.

Crock pots, or slow cookers (I only recently learned from another epinions reviewer that "crock pot" is a proprietary name for Rival slow cookers) have been around for quite a long time. All the rage in the 70's, and probably the most popular ...

Pros: Large, cooks well, simple to use!
Cons: Hot unit; bulky!

We needed something to cook larger roasts and meals with that we didn't have to babysit so we bought this crock pot.

The look:
The unit comes in "plain-jane" white.

Stoneware insert:
This stoneware is bulky and hard to...

Pros: Dependable, size, shape, different cooking temperatures, warm setting
Cons: Not enough time/temperature choices

My old large crock pot died. It was a sad day for our household, well for me, rest of them didn't notice. I needed a new one but the price was keeping us from buying one. For Christmas 2003 my husband gave me the Rival Smart Pot 6-quart slow cooker. ...

Pros: Insert is pretty.
Cons: Seems to heat too high and turn rice and vegetables to mush.

I received the Rival Smart Pot 6-quart Slow Cooker for Christmas a couple of years ago. I wanted a Crock pot, because the idea of them sounded easy and great. I also thought it would be a great way to make meals that I could freeze. I am a Vegan ...

Pros: Home cooked meal ready for your family when you get home from work!
Cons: None!

The Rival “Smart Pot” Programmable Crock Pot is among the best gifts I have ever received (well, within the practicality genre at least). I particularly like that it comes in plain white so that it fits in with any décor. I just always have hated...

Pros: Nice design, easy to use, glass cover
Cons: Feel unsafe leaving this crockpot alone

I work full time and barely have time to cook dinner when I get home. Buying this crockpot at Bed Bath and Beyond for $59.99 was something I hoped would be set to cook a dinner meal while I was at work. This is a Rival CrockPot “Smart-Pot”. It is “smart” ...