Pickled to death

[caroleallen]

I got my new one from Argos and it's great. I'm afraid it is new though, so that can't be the reason for the problem.

[Polly]

I was lucky enough to get a slow cooker from Asda for £7 the other week. Unfortunately, my husband now thinks he's now going to get lovely warming stews this winter, (haven't had the heart to tell him... bless!).

[Boo]

Carole, is yours the one linked to earlier:
Buy Cookworks Round 3.5 Litre Slow Cooker. at Argos.co.uk - Your Online Shop for .

What sort of outer physical size is it - it says it's 3.5 litres capacity and 8 cup capacity - which doesn't make sense to me - I can't picture how big it is. My husband is off somewhere near Argos later and offered to pick it up for me - but I have very little space to locate it, so wondered what the outer size is? 3.5 litre capacity sounds quite big to me - considering that I only use a cup full of pickle at a time.

[mizgeorge]

Boo, if it's any help, I use a 1.5 litre slow cooker for my pickle, and I barely cover the bottom inch with liquid - I use about a cup at a time too.

[Ominicci]

I only use 250ml of pickle in my mini pyrex dish on top of a tealight plate warmer too. That is a small cupful and lasts for a couple of months (unless I use the wrong tongs lol). 3.5L is a medium sized slow cooker and does meals for 4 people.

[Boo]

Thanks.

It's irrelevant now - we'd decided to get one for food anyway, we've been talking about it for a while and I'm having to seriously modify my diet now as I've come off my diabetes medication (thought chunky veggie soups might be good for my lunches) - but they're out of stock within about 50 miles of me anyway. I'll look at it again in a week or two.

I shall continue with my tealight warmer for pickle. I found a little chocolate fondue set I had kept aside for a raffle prize or something and that is smaller than the plate warmer I use, so I might try that instead - I'm just trying to reduce my footprint on surfaces.

[Solunar Silver Studio]

Well, although a lot has changed since I took this (I now have a turntable with my brick on) but the tea-light powered chocolate fondu set with a mini lidded ceramic casserole dish inserted is still going strong!!http://i558.photobucket.com/albums/s...dio/spots7.jpg

I don't know if you have 'Poundland' around your way Boo, but the casserole dish came from there...and I also use massive tea-lights (about 5cm across) from there too at 6 for a pound. They don't need replacing so often!