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Title: Excellent for the first few uses
Review: I love this slow cooker at first. The flexibility of using it on the stovetop or in the oven, and storing it in the refrigerator is fantastic. And it's nonstick. Using it about 4x a month, I loved it for the first 3 months. While it is dishwasher safe, I hand washed it because of the nonstick coating, and after about 12 uses, the nonstick coating was beginning to flake. Yuck. Worse though, just after that, I used it on the stovetop to brown meat before putting it on the base, and even over a very low stovetop flame, the pot "popped" and warped. The pot no longer sits snugly on the base. I called West Bend's customer service about this and was told that it was common but would not affect performance. However, since then, it has not been distributing heat properly a recipe that cooked in 8 hours previously had to be left overnight and still was not done. What a waste of $70. I will be replacing it with a $30 crock one.
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