Hamilton Beach Programmable Slow Cooker With Temperature Probe (Refurbished)
- It’s got a probe to measure the food’s temperature and the brains to cook it how you like
- 6 big quarts of slow-cooking stoneware action: anything less and why bother?
- Digital programming gives your weary dial-turning muscles a rest
- Locking travel lid so you don’t ruin yet another Labor Day by dumping tandoori chicken all over Aunt Patty’s brand-new white carpet
- Model: R1510 (yet another short and snappy model number that’s too short and snappy to be meaningful in Google - this product loses out to a Sharp microwave, some downspout tubing, a rack-mounted power strip, etc.)
Robot chef for hire.
Most robots don’t look anything like C-3PO or Johnny-5. They have no interest in making friends or going on adventures. They just go about their humble way, executing their artificially intelligent tasks, like this Hamilton Beach Set 'n Forget Slow Cooker.
It is too a robot. Think about it: why do people use slow cookers? For low-effort, high-quantity cooking. The quantity thing is covered by that non-robotic stoneware crock, its ample 6-quart capacity making a mockery of those pointless 1.5-quart or 4-quart models.
Then there’s the low-effort part. That’s the lazy essence of slow cooking. You find a recipe you like: something Mom used to make or something totally different. Mix it all up. Put it in the slow cooker. Set the timer. Return home hours later to a home redolent of deliciousness. Go ham on that shit.
But sometimes you’re out a little longer than you thought. The timer goes off. The food cools off. You’re left with a huge vat of lukewarm vegetable stew or bacon jam or what-have-you. Maybe you could have kept it warm if you’d been paying attention. But the luxury of inattention is why you used a slow cooker in the first place.
Meet your new robot chef. It isn’t much on personality. It doesn’t shoot any lasers or drop amusing quips or advise you on intergalactic protocol. But it does fine-tune your food during and after cooking. Whether it’s using the probe to keep meat at your specified internal temperature, or just warming a big one-pot meal after cooking time, the Hamilton Beach Set 'n Forget is a slow cooker that actually does, y’know, cooking.
Best of all, you get to give it a robot name. We’re thinking either S.L.O.W. 9000 or the Probulator.
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