# Can you suggest a good crock pot?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 2, 2004, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-suggest-a-good-crock-pot/267216 "2004-10-02T17:36:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lillith\_Fair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@Lillith\_Fair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lillith_Fair)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-suggest-a-good-crock-pot/267216/1 "2004-10-02T17:36:08Z")

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My crock pot won’t get hot enough to cook potatoes, cut up very small, after cooking 12 hours. Still almost crunchy. (in beef stew)

I’m afraid I can’t get the company to give me a refund because:

1. it was a gift @3 years ago…I know it was from Walmart but don’t have any proof.
2. I sent the company a really nasty message. They aren’t likely to want to help me. (I complained that the potatoes were crunchy–with a lot more verbage–and the response was something like “if you cooker gets too hot, take it back to where you purchased it” which caused me to send another e-mail about how could it get too hot when the potatoes were CRUNCHY–well you get the idea. It was not pretty.)

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**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-suggest-a-good-crock-pot/267216/2 "2004-10-03T01:11:28Z")

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I got a good one by Rival at Williams-Sonoma. It’s 6 quarts and pretty high powered, it seems. I probably paid more than necessary for it to get it at W-S, but since I figure it will last and cook a lot of cheap meals I’m not losing sleep over the price (about$60).