Morning all, I have used 3 crock pots now. The first a second hand one from a charity shop which eventually cracked. The second, my old home casserole slow cooker which allowed pickle to seep through to the metal casing which eroded and now am on my third. I thought I would buy a brand new one and thought genuinely I would have not problems as you see them everywhere on You Tube all crusted and yet still working and everybody seems to still use them. This time I thought I would be clever! just put water in the crock section and within that a smaller plastic pot with the pickle solution in it so it had no chance of touching the crock. When I lifted the crock pot out of its metal casing this was full of water - an electrical hazard to say the least. I thought previously it was the caustic nature of the pickle causing the problems and yet it seems not. Has anybody else had this problem or know of a solution. I took the crock pot out and left it in the kitchen with water in it on a towel to see if it genuinely leaked and it did. How do these things manage to cook watery food without this happening? All help very welcome.