Hamilton-Beach Slow Cooker for $26

After five years, we finally gave up on our old slow cooker.

Food had bubbled over the sides and baked into it, making the inside impossible to clean, even with steel wool. 

My Fella scrubbed out the pot and lid (both in great condition) and we donated them to charity. It's still a good pot for casseroles, but too heavy for us to haul around in JohnnyDisco.

Here's the new slow cooker we found at The Kitchen Collection in the Foley Tanger Outlet Mall: a Hamilton-Beach 6 quart 'Stay Or Go' - $24 USD, $26 with taxes.

We put it to work right away making a roast and I was surprised at how much roomier a 6 quart pot was compared to our old 4 quart one. The 2 extra quarts mean double the amount of veggies. 

The roast cooked very evenly and I love that the new pot is low and wide, compared to our former slow cooker that was tall and skinny.  

And it's called a Stay or Go 'cause it has this nifty safety feature - small metal clips on the sides of the pot that you can close if you wanna roast something, then pack it up and haul it around the block to a friends house.

2 enthusiastic Paws Up for the Stay or Go slow cooker.

Outside of food and a few items of clothing, we haven't bought much since we've been in Alabama, although consumer goods here (like most of the USA) are priced much cheaper than Canada. This cooker in BC would be about $40, plus tax.

On the downside, light or reduced fat foods are very hard to find in Southern Alabama.You really have to hunt for low fat Pringles, lite cheese, etc.

I basically had to knock someone over yesterday to get that last can of low fat sour cream Pringles. Good thing the kid was so short or he would've taken me down.  And it was super immature of him to kick me in the shins.

Comments

[Don]

Looks good and an excellent price! We always put a heat insulator mat under ours when we are using it. Most of the cookers we had left the counter tops too warm for my liking, and I don't know how much heat the arborite glue can take.

[kelsi]

Mr P - good tip on the heat mat - I'll look into it.
More importantly, tell me what kind of weather we're missing in the Okanagan... has it snowed yet?
It's a humid 22C right now (7pm) in Alabama. The armadillos all say "hi, and get well soon!!!"

[Don]

You aren't missing out on anything weather wise. Snow last night, low cloud a lot, highs near 5 and lows just below freezing have been typical. Guess you heard our Armstrong news, people are very fearful now, there is an big absence of pedestrians out at night. Reading your blogs and thinking of using our RV next summer is fast tracking my healing. What are you going to do while they repair your motorhome?