Slow cooking is all the rage, touted on mommy blogs, Pinterest, and social media for its ease of use. There are hundreds of tutorials and menu plans out there to whip up easy, tasty meals for your family.
If slow cooking wasn’t easy enough already, there are once-a-month menu plans out there, where you can assemble the ingredients of a month’s worth of dinners in just one afternoon, to stock up in the freezer.
You just pull out the baggie for that evening’s meal in the morning, dump it in the slow cooker and follow the directions, and leave it to slowly cook all day while you go to work or run errands. At the end of the day you come home to a steaming hot meal of tender meats and perfectly-cooked vegetables!
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Introducing Crock-Pot SCVT650PS
The Crock-Pot SCVT650PS Programmable Slow cooker surpasses both of these expectations. It features a 6.5 quart capacity to accommodate up to a 7 pound roast. According to Crock-Pot, it is large enough to serve up to 8 people. There are larger slow cookers available, but this one is more than adequate to prepare the average-sized meal in. You could read more on their official website for more details.
Features
- What sets this slow cooker apart from most others is the convenient eLume Touchscreen, which helps you to plan your meal organization down to the minute.
- When the unit is off, the buttons are hidden to produce a clean, sleek appearance, but once activated the buttons light up for ease of use. The touchscreen display is very intuitive, easy to read, and produces quick access to all the controls. You have options to choose between three temperature ranges: warm, low, and high.
- You have the added flexibility of choosing any time cycle, from a 30 minute cook cycle to as much as 20 hours, on either low or high temperature settings.
- Designed with an automatic shut down and a warming cycle, when it reaches the end of the scheduled cooking time, it will automatically shut the cook cycle off and switch to the warming cycle to keep your meal warm for you for up to six hours. You’ll even know how long the warming cycle has been active, because there is a timer that is displayed beginning at the start of the cycle.
- The digital display is a countdown timer appears as the cook cycle proceeds.
- The stoneware comes with a glass lid so that you can see your food as it cooks without the need to remove the lid. Simply spray out the stoneware and then place it into dishwasher with the rest of the dishes from your meal.
- The stoneware is dishwasher safe and also oven safe up to 400 degrees. Crock-Pot recommends that if you are going to cook with it in your oven that you do not preheat the oven first, though. Instead, place the stoneware into the cold oven before turning it on, so that it heats up along with the oven. This will ensure that your stoneware does not get cracked by the sudden temperature change.
Design
The design and styling fit effortlessly into the modern kitchen.
Has an elegant exterior featuring mirrored stainless steel with silicone-wrapped stainless steel handles. This makes for safer handling, keeping the handles cool to the touch. It’s also a convenient feature, because you can carry the whole Crock-Pot assembly to the pantry or drawer where you store it, without worrying that it will slip out of your hands.
- Its large oval shape is sufficient to fit most large cuts of meat inside it, and still have room to add vegetables to the dish. This eliminates the need to wrestle with a large roast, trying to cut it up into manageable pieces—you just set the meat inside, with no trouble.
- The SCVT650PS is lightweight and very portable, making it easy to tuck away in a cabinet when not in use. It includes a 1 year limited warranty, which is always something to look for when purchasing any type of electric device. You want a company that stands behind its product.
- The ceramic liner of this model is thick, like many of the older Crock-Pot models, and provided a very even heat. The thicker lining is a great improvement over other slow cookers with thinner linings, which often heated too quickly even on a lower setting.
- The longer timer function is a truly fantastic addition, as it means you can make use of overnight slow cooker beef recipe for items that need a long, low heat. You can make overnight steel cut oats, and have it warm and ready in the morning.
Final Verdict
For anyone who has been hesitant to try slow cooking, a cooker like the Crock-Pot SCVT650PS Programmable Slow cooker is likely to be the one thing that finally breaks through that last reservation. Between its sleek, attractive finish and the incredible range of new features, there’s no reason to hold off, because the convenience and the amount of time you can save with this Crock-Pot makes it just too good to resist.
