Hamilton Beach (33477) 7-Quart Stay-or-Go Programmable Slow Cooker Reviews

excellant.. works very well and holds a lot. We did a whole chicken and it was delicious. I especially like the timer that counts down the hours so you know how long is left

Overall is great but u need patiences for it heat up.. not good for instant cooking.

Cooked beef cubes in my new slow cooker. Came out nice and yender

i am happy with the slow cooker i already used and was very nice, I let a pork shoulder all night in low and in the morning was cooked very well.

Absolutely love this crockpot! It heats up quickly, the programmable feature is perfect for people who are away from home and want to come home to a perfect meal!

The cooker itself is fine and the dipper pot is a nice add-on. The shipping however was terrible. The carton itself had severe damage( a hole in the top flap that was about 20 % of the box top.) the packing bubbles were not adequate to the task(not enough of them) although the products inside were intact the possibility of fatal damage was high due to the shipping process.

The gasket smells of cooking items. Tomatoes sauce and onions odor stay on gasket. Wrote to the company who said use vinegar and baking soda. It didn't work. The insert is heavy. Also hard to clean. When cooking is done it goes to warm but lasts 10 hours. Too long

The package arrived late in the afternoon, so I didn't get anything cooked with it that first day, but the unboxing went smooth (I was very happy to see all the packing), and I gave it an initial washing. And, this is where I found the first thing to love. My sister and I both hold full-time jobs and take care of our elderly parents, without the aid of a lot of working major appliances. So, we tend to cook in large batches, making both fully-finished meals and components for meals that can be assembled and re-heated in the microwave. I also hand-wash all of our dishes. With our previous slow cookers, cleaning the lids was particularly awful because soap would get caught under the handle that is screwed tight against the glass, causing me to spend a lot of time bent over the sink (or bathtub for the large pots) pulling the handle this way and that so I could get the water jet under it to rinse the soap out thoroughly. This new slow cooker does -not- have that problem at all, and I LOVE IT SO MUCH! The handle is a raised, single piece of plastic that only touches the glass at the points where rivets have been placed. It is so much easier to clean and my back is so much happier now. I want to cook more, because now I don't need to dread the cleanup so much!!! For reference, my old slow cookers are a 4-quart 200 watt pot, and a 6-quart 260 watt pot that is so slooooooooow. By contrast, this new slow cooker is a 7-quart, 340 watt pot. The warming pot is 55 watt. I always cook with slow-cooker liners, and they fit this pot perfectly. One problem with slow cooker liners, though, is that you don't always get the lid squarely on the pot. This pot solves that problem -perfectly- by allowing me to just barely hook the clamps on the pot (but not cinch them down) so that I know the lid is in the proper place while it cooks. These are the dishes that I've tried so far: Morning #1) A pre-cooked ham, marinated in honey and pineapple. The automatic settings when the cooker comes on are "high" and "4 hours", so I turned it down to two hours and then checked it at one-hour intervals. After three hours, total, the ham was done perfectly! I couldn't believe it was done so fast! My previous slow cooker of this size would have taken twice as long at least! Morning #2) This is where I got daring. I let cold, filtered water heat for an hour, the put in a bunch of frozen ravioli. I should have checked it at the hour mark, but when I remembered at 1.5 hours the ravioli was just a smidge-overdone. It was still very good, and so wonderful that I can finally cook pasta again! You have no idea how much we missed this!! Evening #2) After the successful ravioli experiment, I tried something even more daring. I can't let my slow cookers run overnight because my lovely Siamese will caterwhaul as long as he smells something cooking, so with my old pots I rarely started anything after 1pm. This gives me time to cook, cool, and put all the food away. At 7pm, into the slow cooker went five pounds of 80/20 ground beef to turn into taco meat and a base for chill. After letting it saute for an hour in its own juices and spices (it was crackling pretty good by then), I added a cup of water to speed the process (and help me pull off the grease later), and by 9pm we had a late dinner of tostadas and tacos! It was SO FAST! Afternoon #3) Chill! The old standby, good for everything, and I left it cooking while I started to write this review! It turns out, this was a full four-hour dishes, but only because I added a ton of both fresh and dried ingredients. It cooked evenly, didn't burn at all, and everything was smooth and tasty by the time it finished. Day #4) I took a break from cooking because I had to work a double-shift. Morning #5) I was up super-early today, so I decided to try one last thing that I had trouble cooking in my old pots: instant mashed potatoes. This is a bit of a secret recipe of mine, but the process is simple: heat up all of the liquids and seasonings, then mix in the dry ingredients, and cook thoroughly. Normally I have to make this in the microwave because my slow cookers just burn them, even on low. Even when I had a working stove, I'd burn them. This time, I left the liquids heat for an hour, mixed in the dry ingredients, and then left it on low. Two hours later, everything was fully cooked, all ingredients were fully integrated, and it had a lovely, smooth consistency. The only thing I'm a little ashamed of is that I haven't yet tried the beautiful little warming pot because I've been having so much fun with the big pot. My sister mentioned a desire to take it to work to reheat the things we make in the big pot, though, and that would make my life just about perfect. More hot food for everyone! [This review was collected as part of a promotion.]

The package arrived late in the afternoon, so I didn't get anything cooked with it that first day, but the unboxing went smooth (I was very happy to see all the packing), and I gave it an initial washing. And, this is where I found the first thing to love. My sister and I both hold full-time jobs and take care of our elderly parents, without the aid of a lot of working major appliances. So, we tend to cook in large batches, making both fully-finished meals and components for meals that can be assembled and re-heated in the microwave. I also hand-wash all of our dishes. With our previous slow cookers, cleaning the lids was particularly awful because soap would get caught under the handle that is screwed tight against the glass, causing me to spend a lot of time bent over the sink (or bathtub for the large pots) pulling the handle this way and that so I could get the water jet under it to rinse the soap out thoroughly. This new slow cooker does -not- have that problem at all, and I LOVE IT SO MUCH! The handle is a raised, single piece of plastic that only touches the glass at the points where rivets have been placed. It is so much easier to clean and my back is so much happier now. I want to cook more, because now I don't need to dread the cleanup so much!!! For reference, my old slow cookers are a 4-quart 200 watt pot, and a 6-quart 260 watt pot that is so slooooooooow. By contrast, this new slow cooker is a 7-quart, 340 watt pot. The warming pot is 55 watt. I always cook with slow-cooker liners, and they fit this pot perfectly. One problem with slow cooker liners, though, is that you don't always get the lid squarely on the pot. This pot solves that problem -perfectly- by allowing me to just barely hook the clamps on the pot (but not cinch them down) so that I know the lid is in the proper place while it cooks. These are the dishes that I've tried so far: Morning #1) A pre-cooked ham, marinated in honey and pineapple. The automatic settings when the cooker comes on are "high" and "4 hours", so I turned it down to two hours and then checked it at one-hour intervals. After three hours, total, the ham was done perfectly! I couldn't believe it was done so fast! My previous slow cooker of this size would have taken twice as long at least! Morning #2) This is where I got daring. I let cold, filtered water heat for an hour, the put in a bunch of frozen ravioli. I should have checked it at the hour mark, but when I remembered at 1.5 hours the ravioli was just a smidge-overdone. It was still very good, and so wonderful that I can finally cook pasta again! You have no idea how much we missed this!! Evening #2) After the successful ravioli experiment, I tried something even more daring. I can't let my slow cookers run overnight because my lovely Siamese will caterwhaul as long as he smells something cooking, so with my old pots I rarely started anything after 1pm. This gives me time to cook, cool, and put all the food away. At 7pm, into the slow cooker went five pounds of 80/20 ground beef to turn into taco meat and a base for chill. After letting it saute for an hour in its own juices and spices (it was crackling pretty good by then), I added a cup of water to speed the process (and help me pull off the grease later), and by 9pm we had a late dinner of tostadas and tacos! It was SO FAST! Afternoon #3) Chill! The old standby, good for everything, and I left it cooking while I started to write this review! It turns out, this was a full four-hour dishes, but only because I added a ton of both fresh and dried ingredients. It cooked evenly, didn't burn at all, and everything was smooth and tasty by the time it finished. Day #4) I took a break from cooking because I had to work a double-shift. Morning #5) I was up super-early today, so I decided to try one last thing that I had trouble cooking in my old pots: instant mashed potatoes. This is a bit of a secret recipe of mine, but the process is simple: heat up all of the liquids and seasonings, then mix in the dry ingredients, and cook thoroughly. Normally I have to make this in the microwave because my slow cookers just burn them, even on low. Even when I had a working stove, I'd burn them. This time, I left the liquids heat for an hour, mixed in the dry ingredients, and then left it on low. Two hours later, everything was fully cooked, all ingredients were fully integrated, and it had a lovely, smooth consistency. The only thing I'm a little ashamed of is that I haven't yet tried the beautiful little warming pot because I've been having so much fun with the big pot. My sister mentioned a desire to take it to work to reheat the things we make in the big pot, though, and that would make my life just about perfect. More hot food for everyone! [This review was collected as part of a promotion.]

I just received the slow cooker a few days ago and made a chicken and rice dish that was absolutely delicious! The slow cooker works perfectly and is very well constructed and is very classy looking. Looking forward to creating more dishes with it. You can never go wrong with Hamilton Beach products! [This review was collected as part of a promotion.]