Customer Reviews

Nesco 4816-14-30 6-Quart Roaster Oven with Nonstick Cookwell, White

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This is a convenient,inexpensive, high quality, easy to clean up cooking unit with a great instruction and recipe book included. More recipes are on the NESCO website as well.

I do not know how to cook. If it weren't for my wife, I would have starved by now. When my son was small, and my wife was sick, he would beg her to get better so he wouldn't have to eat my cooking, which he likened to rubber chicken.

But a few years ago, my wife's aunt gave us a 6 Quart NESCO COOKWELL roaster and voila! I can cook meals that even my son would enjoy.

This is probably the gift for anyone living on their own for the first time, like a college student, since it is extremely easy to prepare and cook healthful, delicious meals EVERY TIME.

If you follow instructions in the enclosed recipe booklet, you can't make a bad meal! My favorite is the lemon pepper chicken with linguine.

The best part is that the COOKWELL roaster pan insert is removable, is used to serve the food and cleans up really easily. The electrical heating part never sees soap and water, since it only serves to surround the cookwell roasting pan insert with a "circle of heat".

This is not a crock pot, although you can set it up as such. Cooking times are usually 45 minutes to an hour and around 350 degrees.

EVERY student going away to college should have one of these. They are easily stored, cleaned and provide inexpensive and healthy meals. And even a lousy cook like myself becomes a gormet chef. You can use the recipes and instructions provided in the booklet that comes with the cookwell or if you are more experienced, like my wife, anything is possible. THIS IS A WINNER!

NESCO products have been heavily marketed on the shopping channel, QVC. I bought my first NESCO roaster, a 4-quart model, over 10 years ago. I have since given that one away but now own a 5, 6, 12, and 18-quart roaster oven. I have given them as gifts and every person receiving a roaster has absolutely loved it.

The 6-quart model is NESCO's most popular sized roaster oven. You can easily prepare a meal for a family of four. But what sets it apart is its versatility. You can cook from 150 to 400 degrees which separates it from a traditional slow cooker. You can bake, steam, poach, roast and slow cook. The heating element, known as the 'Circle of Heat' extends around the sides of the unit so there will be no burnt food at the bottom of the roaster.

What can you cook in it? The real answer is: What can't you cook in it? You are only limited by the size of the unit. For meats such as pork, poultry and beef, you will be rewarded with the most moist servings that you have ever experienced. Soups, stews and casseroles turn out wonderfully in the NESCO. One of my favorite dishes is Swiss steak as the NESCO tenderizes lean cuts of beef such as round steak and the 'circle of heat' blends the flavors perfectly.

NESCO also offers several accessories on their nesco.com website. I purchased a lid with a fan and that converts your unit into a convection cooker. There is also an expanded cookbook for the unit and a cookbook that discusses how to use the 6-quart as a convection oven (you'll need the Roast-Aire lid).

In summary, this is one of those appliances that I consider to be a 'Must Buy'. It is a mini oven and for busy families or just busy people. You will wonder how you ever got along without it!!!

I've only used my roaster once, but the chicken I made in it came out excellent! When I think roasted chicken I think of it dry but this was SO juicy and good. I have yet to try other recipes in it, but so far it's great just for roasting.

The only issue I had with it was "seasoning" it. You have to plug it in and let it heat up for about an hour. Try 3... and in a VERY ventilated garage because the smell that came from this device was horrible! I was told that's normal and that it goes away, which it did. It's just not something you want to do in a smaller, non ventilated area.

I gave it 4 stars simply because of the "seasoning" process. But otherwise, it's a great product and I look forward to using it a lot more.

I bought this roaster a few years back from a home shopping network, and I can say this is the best thing I have ever bought...

Nesco makes one that has a silver outside, and is cheaper then this one, But "Don't" buy that one.

It's made in china or something, and its awful, no comparison.

This one is American made and what a differents...

The lid on the other one's never fit right, I returned three of them and never got one that was right, just plain cheap..What you pay for is what you get.

After having this, you will never use your slow cooker again, what for?

This one can be a slow cooker, or like a regular oven.

I have made chicken breast's, soups, stews, roasts, you name it , you can make it in here...

Everything I have made in this roaster has been moist and juicy.

When I make stews or soups I like those thick, so I take off the lid for about one hour when the food is cooked.

I do have an 8qt, 18qt, and 20qt...

I use the big ones for turkeys...But this and the 8qt is used the most.

When I'm making something in this, I can leave the house and not worry I will burn it down lol...Just turn it a bit lower..

I just read where someone here said you can buy a lid that makes this a convection oven! This I have to check out, but I do have a convection oven, and convections toaster oven and truthful can't find too much differents, so if you have the confection lid to this, what differents does it make?...

Also there is a new type of larger roaster for turkeys that has sometype of heating element in the lid, so your turkey skin will brown. that will not happen with this one, but you can't fit a turkey in here anyway!

Also this is nonstick,which makes for an easy clean up.

When you have left overs, you can just take the well out and put it into the refig., then next day just have to reheat it.

What could be easier then that. No real clean up and you have dinner for at least two nights, or for company..

Enjoy this as you cannot go wrong...

This is our 2nd 6 qt.Nesco, as we beat the living daylights out of the first,but after 10+ years. Once you have one, it will be on your kitchen counter all the time, due to frequent use. It is especially great in the Summer, as you don't have to have your stove/oven going.

Pros: Can easlily make up a meal for at least four, and the removable cook well is easy to clean.Con: If you spill anything on the outside, you have to clean it up pronto, or you will start losing the lettering/temperature painted on. Nesco is one product that you will be glad you bought, and makes a great gift for anyone.

This is a convenient,inexpensive, high quality, easy to clean up cooking unit with a great instruction and recipe book included. More recipes are on the NESCO website as well.

I do not know how to cook. If it weren't for my wife, I would have starved by now. When my son was small, and my wife was sick, he would beg her to get better so he wouldn't have to eat my cooking, which he likened to rubber chicken.

But a few years ago, my wife's aunt gave us a 6 Quart NESCO COOKWELL roaster and voila! I can cook meals that even my son would enjoy.

This is probably the gift for anyone living on their own for the first time, like a college student, since it is extremely easy to prepare and cook healthful, delicious meals EVERY TIME.

If you follow instructions in the enclosed recipe booklet, you can't make a bad meal! My favorite is the lemon pepper chicken with linguine.

The best part is that the COOKWELL roaster pan insert is removable, is used to serve the food and cleans up really easily. The electrical heating part never sees soap and water, since it only serves to surround the cookwell roasting pan insert with a "circle of heat".

This is not a crock pot, although you can set it up as such. Cooking times are usually 45 minutes to an hour and around 350 degrees.

EVERY student going away to college should have one of these. They are easily stored, cleaned and provide inexpensive and healthy meals. And even a lousy cook like myself becomes a gormet chef. You can use the recipes and instructions provided in the booklet that comes with the cookwell or if you are more experienced, like my wife, anything is possible. THIS IS A WINNER!

My whole family tthinks that roasted chicken is so much better. If you like a good tender chicken or a great tender roast this roaster is great. Just the right size for a great dinner or other great foods. I love it Would recommend.

THIS ROASTER IS GREAT! SMALL ENOUGH FOR EASY STORAGE, AND EASY TO CLEAN.. EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE ONE. EVERYTHING I COOK IS JUICY AND TASTY. COOKS JUST ABOUT ANYTHING VERY WELL!

THIS IS MY SECOND ONE AND I LOVE IT

I bought this for my mom, and she both uses it all the time and raves about how well it is built.