Rival SCRBC909-BS Trio 3-Quart Slow Cooker Crock Pot Crock Buffet Server, Black/Stainless

Too hot for a warmer
Received this as a gift chosen from my wish list.
Looks great, although the elegance is greatly diminished by the Crock Brand name logo on the front.
To determine the temperatures, which are marked as low, high and warm,
I filled the crocks with water and set the dials.
Turns out, low and warm heat to 190 degrees and high heats to 200 degrees.
That's way too hot to be labeled "warm."
Buffets that I host usually go on for hours.
Typically, hot foods should be kept at 140 degrees.
When you are hosting a dinner or a super bowl party, you don't have time to turn the heater on and off periodically;
that's the job of the thermostat.
So, if you buy one of these, be prepared to see the bottom layer of food cooked to a crust
if you don't add water periodically.
Maybe the Crock guys will read this and tell me how to lower the temperature by turning a screw or something.
I won't hold my breath because few U.S. companies seem to...

Crock Pot Trio 3-Quart Buffet Server
Crock Pots worked great. My wife loves the 3 quart capacity versus the 2.5 quart that most trio buffet servers are. Have two of them. Ordered Rival but the name brand is Crock Pot on the buffet servers. Did not realize the two companies are the same. Only minor thing is that the spoons were all the same. Would be nice if one or two of them were slotted so the juice would drain through. The really disappointing thing is the Crock Pot and Rival Company do not sale any slotted spoons.

Rival SCRBC909-BS 3-Qt Slow Cooker and Buffet Server
Well I bought this three pot buffet style slow cooker for my 82 year old mother for mother's day. It is beautiful and was exactly what she wanted with the ability to cook three separate dishes at the same time.... The problem is that none of us considered that the darn thing weighs a TON with three crockpots in one unit! My poor dad had to walk the box through the doorway because he couldn't pick it up and carry it into the house when it was delivered. My mother also forgot to consider the 3X storage requirement for a three pot unit too. So I'm sad to say we will not be keeping it even though this is a very nice piece of buffet ware. Too bad they didn't give us the weight of the unit in the technical details. We could have been spared the headache of trying to figure out what to do with it. The seller won't accept returns of factory sealed packaging that has been opened unless the item is defective, so we can't return it...sigh.

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