Crock-Pot 4865-W Recipe Smart-Pot Slow Cooker, Chrome

by Rival

Product Features

• 5-1/2 quart oval slow cooker with a digital cookbook of more than 200 recipes
• Touch-pad keyboard for programming time and temperature
• Removable stoneware insert and a tempered glass lid
• Automatically shifts to warm when cooking is complete
• Measures 16-1/2 by 15 by 8 inches

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 18.5 x 16.4 x 9.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0000BVNXJ
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #184,014 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

What sets this extra-large slow cooker apart is its digital recipe box of more than 200 recipes and its ability to be programmed for cooking time and temperature. When it reaches the end of the cooking time for the recipe you've selected, it turns itself down to keep warm until it's time to serve.

Its curvaceous, white design is handsome and the rubberized keypads (easy to wipe!) are easy to use. The screen where the recipes appear is at a slight upward angle, so there's no having to crouch down to read it. An audible tone lets you know when cooking time is over. And there are enough recipes in this Smart-Pot--from casseroles to soups and even some great desserts--that dinner will be anything but a routine.

Clean-up is very easy; warm soapy water will do the trick. (The programmable base unit is not immersible; just use a soapy rag or cloth.) Do not use scratchy, abrasive cleaners on the chrome exterior. Glass lid is dishwasher-safe. The slow cooker measures 16-1/2 by 15 by 8 inches. Rival includes a one-year warranty against defects and comes with a detailed booklet of instructions, recipes, and tips. --Garland Withers

Product Description

Rival Recipe Smart-Pot Slow Cooker

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Far from ideal...., January 1, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Crock-Pot 4865-W Recipe Smart-Pot Slow Cooker, Chrome (Kitchen)

I love crock pot cooking and was pleased to see this one on the market with some new features. Since I have a long work day--sometimes 12 hours away from home--I needed to be able to fine tune cooking times so things would not overcook. So far, so good. The Smart Pot does that; you can set temperatures to high or low and program in the number of hours. After that, the pot shifts to "keep warm". And it performs cooking functions as well as any basic crock pot.
Please note, however, the comments on tops not fitting well. I have had to return a pot for that reason, and it's worth paying attention to while you still have your original packaging and receipt.
Next issue: Rival cheaped out and did not enclose a recipe book with this $80+ pot, they listed only the names of the recipes. So to scan the recipes to plan a meal and ingredients called for, you have to look at the tiny led display and scroll through screen after screen. Not user friendly, not easy to see. This negates the recipe function for all intents and purposes.
Finally, if you have a small kitchen, don't buy this monster. It's huge! My advice: wait for the next model and improved design.

42 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not-so-smart crock pot, January 7, 2004

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Carl E. Parry (Olathe, KS USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Crock-Pot 4865-W Recipe Smart-Pot Slow Cooker, Chrome (Kitchen)

My wife and I both work (long hours) outside of our home so we've used crock pots for many years to help prepare easy, wholesome meals for weeknights. We have been looking for a unit that will automatically shift the "keep warm" after a specified cooking time so my wife gave me one of these new "super-pots" for Christmas. I've tried to cook 2 meals (seafood chowder & ham with navy beans) on the low setting in this pot and it has burned them both. As mentioned above, you'd think an $80 crock would come with a printed recipe book but it didn't so if you're preparing your grocery shopping list you have to drag this monster out, plug it in and mess with a very unfriendly program to try to find the list of ingredients for a given recipe. What a pain! Lastly, the LCD display screen is VERY hard to see in a lighted room. You have to shade it with one hand while pushing buttons with the other to try to find and read the text. It REALLY needs its own backlight. I understand marketing and the fact that it must be very hard to continue findings ways to "improve" something as basically great as the original crock pot but the folks at Rival REALLY missed the boat on this thing. Save some money and buy a more conventional model with fewer bells and whistles and maybe a little better temperature control!

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great Features but Disappointing Performance, November 30, 2003

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Pam (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Crock-Pot 4865-W Recipe Smart-Pot Slow Cooker, Chrome (Kitchen)

As a crock-pot owner and user for 20 years, this crock-pot seemed ideal. It had all the features I was looking for, plus many wonderful others. Unfortunatley, the lid doesn't fit well. I had read this in other reviews about other newer models, so was sure to be home during my first use. After a few hours of cooking a roast, I noticed a lot of water on my kitchen counter. Moisture was running down the inside of the lid and collecting on the rim of the pot and spitting out. I'm sad to say I'll be taking this one back to the store and pulling back out my 20 year-old model.