The Common Kitchen Appliance That's Pretty Overrated, If We're Being Honest - Chowhound

Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock On the surface, the best slow cookers seem great. You dump a bunch of ingredients into a single receptacle, turn a knob to a designated preset, put the lid on top, and you're good to walk away for a few hours and come back to a complete meal. But if we're being honest, the slow cooker, or Crock Pot (since it's like the Kleenex of slow cookers), is pretty overrated, and there are quite a…