crockpot/slow cookers...recommendations?

[oddjob]

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You can't leave your oven on all day while you are out of the house, you can with a crockpot.

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Well, that's why I included the caveat about safety features. If there's some auto-shutoff or something, then a crock pot makes a lot more sense for a home, where the cook is going to be absent, than a real kitchen, where people are always there. But even that doesn't make a ton of sense to my limited electrical knowledge. Why is there a greater danger of an oven electrical short than there is a crock pot electrical short? Is it something to do with the oven heating a bigger space than a crock pot?

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do you have a toaster?