crock pot or slow cooker???

[Nemo2007]

Which one would you buy and why?
which one cooks rice or do they both?
What size for a family of 2 adults and 3 young childrens/baby portions?

I think they're the same thing, aren't they? Crock pot is the american term for slow cooker.

what is a crock pot?

you wouldn't really use a slow cooker for rice (in fact you may not be able to cook it in it). slow cooker is for stews, pot roasts and caserole type dishes.

mmm I thought one of them you could use for rice, only asking difference as was looking in argos catalogue and they had both?

so are they the same?

I have a slow cooker and use it a lot. I have a cook book for slow cookers that I bought in a book shop and it does say you can cook rice, in fact, a larger quantity than you can cook in most rice cookers - I've never tried it but it can be done

thanks mrsmckjnr I was lookgin at a tefal one last night that said it was a rice/slow/steam cooker but if normal slow cooker will do it then will get one of them

I actually have two (one's from the 70s - belonged to my Gran) and I call them my slaves, if I make a bolognaise and a chilli I leave them to cook over night, it's a bit funny to wake up to those smells my Mum puts hers on in the morning before work but I'm not that organised!

i think she meant Stockpot and not crockpot. here is a stockpot....ive got a slow cooker and its fab as you can put the things in it and go out all day without worrying about burning the house down!

arrghh on the link click on the 23rd August and its on page 7

definetly a crock pot
www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4227597.htm

bought a slow cooker and ebook of recipes..lol

YIPPEE! i cant live without mine in the cold winters