Crock-Pot 5025WG 2.5-Quart Slow Cooker
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Crock-Pot 5025WG 2.5-Quart Slow Cooker
Customer Review: Love It
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this Rival 2.5Quart Crock Pot. I love it even more than my programmable, large Crock Pot Versaware Pro.
I love the smaller size. Whether it's a hearty soup or slow cooking a roast or pork shoulders (western style ribs), the smaller size is perfect! It makes 4-6 servings which is good for dinner, and lunches tomorrow.
The hunter green liner does not match my kitchen, but my kitchen has little counter space so I store the crock pot out of sight. The hunter green liner is a breeze to wash up. You can even put it in the dishwasher, and it comes out new looking every time. My Crock Pot Versaware Pro can not claim to easy clean up, or keeping appearances new looking.
I think the 2.5 quart's cooking temperature is a little hot, not warm like vintage crock pots. It is certainly not as scorching hot as my big Versaware Pro.
The Rival 2.5 Quart Crockpot will get used. Bigger crock pots might be used at Christmas, or during the year by big families.
Customer Review: What a Buy!
Summary: 5 Stars
My pot is a different color than this one; I purchased mine from Wal-Mart for $9. It has a colored patterned body with a white insert, and has a plastic lid.
This is the smallest Crock Pot I've owned, and I've had Crock Pots over 30 years. I had serious doubts about doing recipes in a pot this size. My concerns proved unfounded. As a single person I find now that I can cook enough just for me and don't have to freeze a bunch that may not get eaten. It is indeed an adjustment and after using this one dozens of times it's still strange to rinse and cook such a small amount of beans.
My pot operates at the proper temperatures; low setting just under boil and high setting will boil. I've had no problems with timing at all.
Purchasing a $9 pot for stovetop cooking will ensure cheap construction and disappointment. This little pot has provided many, many great meals and shows no sign of stopping any time soon. A great little investment.
Customer Review: Great crockpot for the price.
Summary: 4 Stars
It doesn't take a chef to figure out how to use this thing. It also doesn't take a genus to realize what you're getting for $19.99.
I've had this crockpot for 2-3 years now and the only problems I've had with it were my own fault - i.e. filling the pot too full or etc. I made soups, stews, and chili in this thing and it always turns out fantastic.
Seriously you folks out there expecting this thing to be solidly constructed and to be able to handle making more sophisticated meals - maybe you should consider paying a bit more than $20. I'm sure this thing would have problems with more complicated recipes (I've never tried personally)...but I'm stressing this point again...it's a $20 crockpot...
For the price and for what this thing can do, you just can't beat it. Nothing beats coming home from work and having stew or soup hot and ready to eat.
Customer Review: Fast Cooker - Do not leave on while at work!
Summary: 1 Stars
I will be returning this soon. It cannot be left on while at work or overnight.
I filled it up with bbq sauce and 4 chicken breasts. 8 hours later on "low" the chicken was brown and black, and the sauce was boiling rapidly.
Tried the same thing with ribs, but this time I checked on them. The pot was filled to the top with ribs and sauce, set to low. 4 hours later the ribs were well-done and dry. Any longer would have burned them.
Frozen chicken wings and bbq sauce burned after 4 hours on "high".
Tried leaving pot on "low" while at work. I filled it with frozen vegetables, 2 diced potatoes, and a chopped-up steak. Upon arriving home 10 hours later, the vegetables were fused into a brown mush that did not look like vegetables, the potatoes were brown, and the meat was black. Nothing was edible.
Customer Review: It works.
Summary: 4 Stars
It does cook things faster than some larger crockpots will. But I live in a dorm, so I'm usually not away for 9 to 12 hour stretches. I can cook lunch at breakfast, or I can get up at noon and still have something ready for dinner by 5 or 6.
If you want something that you can start before you leave for work in the morning and have ready and not overcooked by the time you get home at night, I would NOT recommend this, because it doesn't have a timer that will switch it to "Warm" when it'd done cooking. It'll just keep cooking.
But it is a good buy for dorm residents that want to eat real food every once in a while, or who are looking to save money on meal plans or eating out.
Just don't start something unless you know you'll be back within four or five hours to turn it off.