On Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 11:51:46 AM UTC-4, Cloudbuster wrote:
> On 4/30/2016 9:06 AM, Steve Freides wrote:
>
> > We've been using our slow cooker for a few months and are very fond of
> > it ...
>
> I think you suffer from the same malady many of us do with newer "slow"
> cookers, they are set too high on their thermostats.

Our new one has a thermometer probe that switches it from cook to hold. Still too high a temperature but it helps.

I remember a slow cooker that had a setting called "Automatic". It cooked on high until the thermostat triggered then switched to low. The low then was lower than the hold is now.