Review by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
Lakeland Slow Cooker
Lakeland Ref 12921
If the thought of coming home at the end of the day to a tasty casserole of tender meat, wholesome beans or flavorsome vegetables has already got your taste buds tingling, then slow cooking is for you.
Creating beautiful home-cooked meals from scratch with the minimum of effort, it will make rushed ready-meals a thing of the past and that is both good fore you and the environment.
This slow cooker which is exclusive to Lakeland and produced for and imported by Lakeland – made in the PRC – is simple to operate with three heat settings:
- LOW for simmering and slow cooking
- HIGH for faster cooking and
- AUTO which keeps food at serving temperature.
The cooker has an oval brushed chrome body with cool touch handles that houses an element that encircles the crock for even cooking.
The pot is a 3.5 liter earthenware crock with a glass lid, so you can see what's going on with the meal during the cooking without having to lift the lid all the time and letting out the heat. The crock can be removed to take to the table and for cleaning.
The small manual that comes with the crock pot (slow cooker) included four recipes to get you started.
Slow cookers can also be used to slow cook a joint of meat for instance and I have found meat cooked in that way to be very delicious indeed.
The only one single negative comment that I could make about this slow cooker – and this could probably apply to most, if not indeed all, modern ones – and that is that the outer body is metal and is connected to the inside “element” and hence the outside gets rather hot.
Crock pots of the older generation had different outsides, some earthenware themselves, just like the inside crock, others had plastics that remained cool to the touch.
Other than that this crock pot that is exclusive to Lakeland is a great slow cooker and does what it says on the box, so to speak, and will grace any kitchen and table, as you can, as previously mentioned, take the pot to the table for serving.
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