Rival SCVP600-W Oval 6-Quart Smart-Pot Crock-Pot, White

The leg broke in the first month, the lid handle broke after 6 months. This unit cooks too hot. You can get used to it but you shouldn't have to.

This is just an awful crockpot. Admittedly it's rather inexpensive but does have good functionality. But on low it will boil the food. On low it will burn the food onto the side of the crock. This is on low, not high. Maybe I received a unit with a poor thermostat. But I will be purchasing another one from a different manufacturer. It even boiled cheese dip...on low. I've used a few different crock pots over the years so I am not a novice.

As our family has grown so has our need for a larger slow cooker. We have a simple 4 quart Rival Crock Pot with 3 settings: off, low, and high. It's worked great for over 15 years, but it doesn't hold enough food. Since Rival served us well the first time we bought this Crock Pot at a store...without checking the reviews here first.

As others have said, this Crock Pot gets way too hot on low. I tried two different recipes and they both came out very overdone. Potatoes near the edge in a pot of scalloped potatoes came out black. I wrote to Rival's customer service about this but received no reply so I returned the pot to the store.

Perhaps it is the more recently manufactured pots that have this problem - those that say it cooks fine have been using theirs for years.

Avoid this slow cooker, at least until they iron out the problems with it.

We had an old Rival crock pot from the 80s that worked great, you could put a frozen roast in it on low in the morning, go to work, and come home to perfectly cooked roast after work. It finally gave up and died... so we went on a quest for a new one.

Bought this Rival oval crock pot. It got way to hot, it's only good for making boiled jerky out of your roast! This despite putting it on low. Even trying to cook on low for a mere four hours, this will turn a roast into a tough, boiled piece of leather. Tried putting in a frozen roast, it will STILL turn your roast into jerky in four hours!!!!

We thought perhaps Hamilton Beach would be a better choice, so we went back and spent the 40 bucks to buy a "stay and go" digital model. Same problem. Apparently all the "new and improved" crock pots have been made much hotter than the old ones, and cook much faster. This makes them virtually worthless for making a decent roast or slow cooked batch of stew. My old crock pot from the 80s made every roast so tender it fell apart. These new ones we bought will both speedily boil your roast into an unappetizing chunk of leather that is difficult to cut, let alone chew.

GET WITH IT Rival and Hamilton Beach! Make a NEW slow cooker that actually... ahem... COOKS SLOW.... on a LOW temperature for 8 hours or so, or don't bother trying to sell it to me as a "slow cooker". I'm going to some second hand stores hoping I can buy a REAL slow cooker in serviceable condition from back when they made them to BE slow cookers... rather than just an electric boiling pot.

Again, note: In four hours, on LOW temperature, these new ones will turn your roast into boiled tough jerky. Don't waste your money until Rival and Hamilton Beach wake up!

I just love my progamable crock-pot. It is so easy to use and save me so very much time and effort.