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It was time to retire my 26-year-old West Bend slow cooker. Not because it quit working, but because the non-stick surface was beginning to fade a little. As I shopped at a lot of local stores, the only slow cookers I could find were the ones that had temperature settings of just low and high. Not good enough for me, as my West Bend had a sweep-able thermostat that went from low, to medium, to high. Sorry it spoiled me.

What really surprised me was fact that I could not find the West Bend brand anywhere. I figured they must have gone out of business.

So maybe retirement wasn't going to happen after all. And I was not going to compromise. Not being able to find anything locally, I turned to Amazon. And as you have found out as well, West Bend is alive and well here. After reading some of the reviews, I settled for this model. Now first off, I'm not a slow cooker fanatic.

I use it for spaghetti sauce, beef stew, chili, roasts, and soups. You get the idea.

Nothing fancy. YES Its got a sweep-able thermostat!!! That in itself was enough for me. Some folks dislike the fact that this cooker is probably not one to leave unattended all day. Which is true, to some degree. You have to spend some time with this, to get to know its nuances.

I would rather not leave any appliance like that unattended. I don't with my washer either.

Some folks dislike the fact that the sides get hot while cooking. My lawnmower gets hot too, but I don't go touching the muffler. And I try not to touch the burners on the stove while I'm cooking either. Guess I'm just funny that way.

Cord too short? I have an outlet where it sits. The griddle was invented for just that reason. Why would you use the base of this for that purpose? West Bend says you can, but I don't.

They also say you can brown meat in the pot on your stovetop. I'm happy doing it the old fashion way. A little ol pan is not that hard to clean. Oh, and did I mention it has a sweep-able thermostat? Again, I'm not a slow cooker guru. This is just perfect for my needs.

Would I recommend this? But if you are really serious about slow cooking, this might not be your cup o tea. The reason I gave this four stars, was the fact that I would have liked the lid to be just a bit beefier.

Well sorry folks but I spoke too soon on this slow cooker. I was fixing a chicken dish in the West Bend slow cooker and had to brown the chicken in the pot on top of the cooktop. When that was finished I put the pot on the griddle/heater and found that the pot had WARPED! Had to have happened while browning the chicken. To say the least I am very, very disappointed.

For $73.00 you would think the quality would be better than the cheap stuff you can buy all day long at a big box store. I have SS Revere Ware that's 37+ years old and it has never warped. I didn't mean to mislead anyone with my previous review. I have my mother's cast iron oval cooker that fits perfectly on the griddle/heater and am using that in place of the SS pot of West Bend. Don't buy this item! The recent generation of slow cookers have been a huge disappointment. I have bought two (from two different companies) in the last year and I know several people who have bought one and they are also disappointed by them.

My son was using one that had meatballs with BBQ sauce on them. He put it on warm and several hours later when returning found them burned. My crock pots DO NOT simmer so therefore I would not be able to leave house fearing the contents would boil over or boil to being unedible. My sister has an old West Bend Slow Cooker that she has used for years. She loves hers. So I did a bit of research and after reading very good reports for the most part, bought the Stainless Steel 6 qt. With the glass cover.

Upon receiving the product, I have fixed small white butter beans and yesterday I fixed homemade chicken noodle soup. They both did wonderful and the fact that you can use the pot on top of the stove or even in the oven is a great feature.

Saves me from having to dirty up another pot. It simmers beautifully and when you want it to boil, it will on high. It has various degrees of heat in between low and high.

I think I have hit upon a winner. It cleans up great and has an added feature of a small griddle. 3d Sound Usb Driver Ubuntu Software on this page.

The pot and handles do get hot so always use a potholder when lifting lid or moving vessel off hot cooker. I'm just hoping it will last as long as my sister's. I think today I will be using it cook a ham. Well sorry folks but I spoke too soon on this slow cooker. I was fixing a chicken dish in the West Bend slow cooker and had to brown the chicken in the pot on top of the cooktop. When that was finished I put the pot on the griddle/heater and found that the pot had WARPED!

Had to have happened while browning the chicken. To say the least I am very, very disappointed. For $73.00 you would think the quality would be better than the cheap stuff you can buy all day long at a big box store. I have SS Revere Ware that's 37+ years old and it has never warped. I didn't mean to mislead anyone with my previous review. I have my mother's cast iron oval cooker that fits perfectly on the griddle/heater and am using that in place of the SS pot of West Bend. Don't buy this item!

The recent generation of slow cookers have been a huge disappointment. I have bought two (from two different companies) in the last year and I know several people who have bought one and they are also disappointed by them. My son was using one that had meatballs with BBQ sauce on them.

He put it on warm and several hours later when returning found them burned. My crock pots DO NOT simmer so therefore I would not be able to leave house fearing the contents would boil over or boil to being unedible. My sister has an old West Bend Slow Cooker that she has used for years.

She loves hers. So I did a bit of research and after reading very good reports for the most part, bought the Stainless Steel 6 qt. With the glass cover.

Upon receiving the product, I have fixed small white butter beans and yesterday I fixed homemade chicken noodle soup. They both did wonderful and the fact that you can use the pot on top of the stove or even in the oven is a great feature. Saves me from having to dirty up another pot. It simmers beautifully and when you want it to boil, it will on high. It has various degrees of heat in between low and high.

I think I have hit upon a winner. It cleans up great and has an added feature of a small griddle. The pot and handles do get hot so always use a potholder when lifting lid or moving vessel off hot cooker. I'm just hoping it will last as long as my sister's. I think today I will be using it cook a ham. It was time to retire my 26-year-old West Bend slow cooker. Not because it quit working, but because the non-stick surface was beginning to fade a little.

As I shopped at a lot of local stores, the only slow cookers I could find were the ones that had temperature settings of just low and high. Not good enough for me, as my West Bend had a sweep-able thermostat that went from low, to medium, to high. Sorry it spoiled me.

What really surprised me was fact that I could not find the West Bend brand anywhere. I figured they must have gone out of business. So maybe retirement wasn't going to happen after all. And I was not going to compromise. Not being able to find anything locally, I turned to Amazon.

And as you have found out as well, West Bend is alive and well here. After reading some of the reviews, I settled for this model. Now first off, I'm not a slow cooker fanatic. I use it for spaghetti sauce, beef stew, chili, roasts, and soups. You get the idea. Nothing fancy.

YES Its got a sweep-able thermostat!!! That in itself was enough for me. Some folks dislike the fact that this cooker is probably not one to leave unattended all day. Which is true, to some degree.

You have to spend some time with this, to get to know its nuances. I would rather not leave any appliance like that unattended. I don't with my washer either. Some folks dislike the fact that the sides get hot while cooking. My lawnmower gets hot too, but I don't go touching the muffler. And I try not to touch the burners on the stove while I'm cooking either. Guess I'm just funny that way.

Cord too short? I have an outlet where it sits. The griddle was invented for just that reason.

Why would you use the base of this for that purpose? West Bend says you can, but I don't. They also say you can brown meat in the pot on your stovetop. I'm happy doing it the old fashion way. A little ol pan is not that hard to clean. Oh, and did I mention it has a sweep-able thermostat?

Again, I'm not a slow cooker guru. This is just perfect for my needs. Would I recommend this? But if you are really serious about slow cooking, this might not be your cup o tea. The reason I gave this four stars, was the fact that I would have liked the lid to be just a bit beefier. I grew up knowing the West Bend slow cooker as the go-to cooking appliance in our home. From appetizers to desserts, my grandma & mom cooked it all.

So of course I received one when I moved out and used it for many years until the internal coating became too scratched up. It was difficult to find a replacement as this particular slow cooker is not found in stores. Once I located them on amazon, I purchased the 6 qt. As I now feed a growing family.

I am happy with the cooker's performance and results (tender roasts, perfectly cooked one dish meals, soups, using the griddle in camper trailer, having a temp control dial not just low-high, etc.) But the construction is disappointing. At purchase, I realized it had a different lid than its predecessor ( glass lid could be used as a serving tray) and it just doesn't provide the same fit seal as older version. The pot is also a lighter material and it was 'warped -wobbly' from first use. Even with these imperfections and changes, I still prefer the slow cooker over the round 'crock pot' cooker. I have not been as successful with the crockpit being able to 'leave it and forget it,' as even the low teperature will scorch overcook by my return from work. I have called a manufacturer about the issue and was told that the thermostats are set to cook food at a certain temp. To prevent food borne illness and really should not be used to cook food all day.

So, for a true slow cooker, this item, despite some flawed changes, is preferable and welcome in my kitchen. *I am considering the purchase of the smaller unit that comes in colors as it appears to be constructed more like my first cooker. UPDATE May 9: Attempted to call West Bend customer service today using their customer telephone number listed in the slow cooker user guide. No one answered the phone. Downgraded review to three stars based on this experience. The call was about the very loose lid that does not fit.

The lid is so loose it could slip off and fall into the slow cooker pot or elsewhere. This is handy slow cooker as you can brown food in the same pan but the poor lid design ruins what could have been a five star product. Long ago I had a West Bend slow cooker similar to this model except it was oblong and had a glass lid that could be used as a small casserole dish.

In fact, I cooked many slow cooker meals in my college dorm room using this slow cooker. That slow cooker's lid was secure and fit the slow cooker tightly.

At the end of April, and almost 40 years after my college dorm room slow cooker, I purchased the 6-quart oval slow cooker. Sadly, this slow cooker came with a regular glass lid that does not fit the slow cooker well. In fact, the lid is so poorly fitted to the metal pot it almost wobbles. I have to carefully place the lid on the slow cooker to make sure the pot is covered by this poor fitting lid. As to cooking: The slow cooker heats from the bottom rather the typical wrap-around heating found in most slow cookers or crock pots. There are trade-offs as the heat is distributed from the bottom upward rather than surrounding the food cooking. This means the food could burn a bit more easily than the wrap-around slow cooker/crockpot models.

A bonus to the West Bend 6-Quart Versatility Slow Cooker is the ability to brown meat in the slow cooker pot. This means one less pan to wash. You can also use the heating unit as a small grill.

The enclosed slow cooker cookbooklet tells how to use the slow cooker and the grill. Overall, this is an good slow cooker and it would have been better, if the lid was manufactured to fit the slow cooker pot. Instead the lid fits loosely.

Recommend with caveats given. I've wandered into those kitchen shops where you drool over everything and can't afford anything. And I lusted after one of their upscale brand slow cookers that move from stovetop burner to oven to fridge with ease (for a few hundred dollars). And it made me wonder whether there wasn't a cheaper way to have the utility (if not the cachet) of those things. Enter the West Bend Versatility Slow Cooker.

Because the pot is really just a stainless steel dutch oven (with a teflon base to prevent sticking), you can do whatever you want with it--including putting it on the burner unit that comes with it. But you can also use it to brown your meat on the stove in the same pot you use for slow cooking (saving you the trouble of putting a second pot in the dishwasher).

You can also dispense with the base and put the thing right in your oven, if you choose. And it's light enough that you won't dislocate a shoulder doing so. But the mystique of the crock pot, with the stoneware container emitting radiant heat all around your roast or stew--is gone. What you get here is--just a pot and a spare burner. But really, for most things, that's what you need. You don't really need the radiant heat; you need a burner that you can leave on during the day without worrying about burning your house down. And that's what you get here.

You can even use the base as a small griddle (though we don't). But that extra versatility raises some problems for people who aren't paying attention. The dial on the base goes from 'keep warm' to 'high' -- and then it keeps on going (kind of like the amplifier on 'Spinal Tap' that goes to 11, instead of 10). The upper heat levels are for griddle use (I guess), not slow cooking. So you can burn things up if you don't watch what you are doing. If the All-Clad crowd is too rich for your blood (or you want to see whether the concept will work for you at a tenth the price), you might want to give this one a try.

Even if you don't often use the base as a burner, you will gain another pot to cook in. But if for you a crock pot is all about the mysteries of radiant heat, you will want to stick with the tried and true (and heavy) crocks of yore. I had a very old version of this slow cooker and loved it. The base broke from dropping, but still worked with duck tape, and the pot lost its no-stick surface, so I decided it was time to replace it.

This newer version is no longer made in the USA, and the quality is not quite as good, but it still works like I want it too. After my first time to use this new pot it became warped and was not able to sit flat upon the cooking surface. I was unable to remove spots within the pot from searing my meat before cooking.

I complained about the pot and immediately received a brand new pot (and a new glass cover, which I really didn't need) at no charge. So I am very grateful to West Bend for their excellent customer service.

Despite the replacement and the excellent customer service, I must report that the NEW pot also warped. The company desperately needs to do something to replace these poorly made pots. I HAVE PURCHASED SLOW COOKERS BY WEST BEND FOR MANY TEARS, I AM 73, AND I CAN TELL YOU THIS ONE IS NOT UP TO THEIR PRIOR STANDARDS. I HAVE USED IT ABOUT 10 TIMES IN THE PAST YEAR AND AFTER THE 3RD TIME IT DEVELOPED A HOT SPOT ON THE LEFT SIDE, BURNT EVERYTHING. I TRIED TO USE IT THE OTHER DAY AND AS I WAS WASHING IT THE TEFLON STARTED COMING OFF, NOT ON THE BOTTOM BUT ON THE SIDES NEAR THE TOP OF THE PAN.

AT THE PRICE THEY CHARGE I WOULD EXPECT SEVERAL YEARS OF USE BEFORE PROBLEMS START. WEST BEND WAS A TRUSTED BRAND FOR ME, NOT SO ANYMORE. British Standard Bs 1363 Download Music.

I WILL NO LONGER RECOMMEND IT. DO NOT BUY IS MY ADVISE. I highly recommend the West Bend 6-quart Versatility Slow Cooker in Stainless. I had to replace my 35+ year old butterscotch-color West Bend Slo-Cooker Plus. The glass cover was chipped on the edge.

The no-stick interior had worn spots, but no peeling. It continued to cook well, so I was lazy about doing the research to replace it. My husband bought a CrockPot Slow Cooker for me in December, 2014. I used it once.

All it did was boil no matter what setting it was on. The cooking elements in that type of ceramic CrockPot go around the bottom and up the sides. We returned it, thanks to a very liberal warehouse return policy. In contrast to the CrockPot, the West Bend Versatility Slow Cooker has complete temperature control with a dial.

The cooking element is in the base, so heat rises in the pot making for balanced cooking. You can use the pot on the stove for browning. The glass lid with metal edges fits tightly.

Steam doesn’t escape when I use it. I wipe the interior surface with cooking oil before every use to condition the non-stick finish. I don’t remove the cover during cooking unless necessary since the cooking time will be increased due to loss of temperature. I use only recommended cooking tools on the non-stick finish.

If you use metal, you will scratch the finish. I clean the pot by hand, although the manual says you can clean it in a dishwasher. It is so easy to clean due to the non-stick finish. I use it mainly to cook soup, chili, and stew. I have never used the base as a griddle. The biggest benefit is I can leave the meal cooking safely while I go out.

I don’t feel it is safe to leave something cooking on a gas stove top. This slow-cooker makes cooking so much easier. This is my 3rd West Bend slow cooker in almost 48 years of marriage and I could not be more disappointed! First had a round one but broke the glass lid. Then bought oval and loved it's many years of service but eventually the non stick coating was thin on bottom.

I saw this, read the reviews and really thought the coatings problems were from using the stainless steel pot on high stove burner heat to brown meat etc. Mine has NEVER been heated on anything but its base, never put into dishwasher and only gently hand washed. After almost a year thumb size pieces of coating are pealing off.

Plan to call West Bend Monday. Says it has a one year limited Warranty. I will update with results. This is my third West Bend Slow Cooker, each replaced when the nonstick coating wore through (following 10 or so years of loyal service). My favorite feature of this pan, is the stove top use for browning and reducing stock. The oval shape is fantastic for pot roasts, and the pan is pretty enough to use for serving.

So why the two stars? After the first use (pork shoulder for about 9 hours) the nonstick stuck, in the center of the pan. After the second use, there was a noticeable wear spot (a pot roast cooking for 6 hours).

So nonstick issues aside, the lid is my next complaint. It simply does not fit. The previous casserole design was amazing, you could rest the roast while thickening the gravy, or shred your pork while reducing your sauce.

Plus it was heavy enough not to be lifted by steam, in the cooking process. This new design makes a nice mess on your countertop. One last point. This pan seems to be a lighter weight than my previous West Bend cookers, and it takes quite a bit of fiddling with the dial, to keep the contents from boiling. I had no problems whatsoever, with the 5 quart models, and have purchased 3 for gifts in the past year.

Too bad they don't come in stainless.