Its called Life…

Keep your kitchen slow cooker cookin’ with the timely use of replacement crock pot parts.

This may seem obvious and this whole post may seem like more of a public service announcement than a blog, but recent experience has me wondering just how many people are aware that - especially during these tougher economic times, a lot of money can potentially be saved by simply maintaining your existing appliances instead of just giving up on them and moving on and buying a new one? Courtesy of your local department store, there are always shelves full of shiny new things available for you to buy for your home, but is it really always necessary?

Our own recent experience is with a well known brand of kitchen appliance that is widely used in the home. My wife has been itching to start using her trusty Rival crock pot again but when she hauled it out she was reminded why she has not used it in a while: it has a broken lid.

This isn’t the first time her plans to slow cook have been foiled: this is probably the second or third time she had pulled out the rival slow cooker and realized that it was unusable in its present shape; like each time before, she went and put it back up on the shelf thinking that it would be dealt with (ie thrown out) at a later date. Thats the thing though: you don’t want to throw out a perfectly good appliance but you are not motivated enough to find a way to get it back up and running … or cooking … or vacuuming … or whatever it is it should be doing instead of just sitting in the closet or on a shelf.

Well I decided that it was time to make an effort so I went online and did a quick search with Google and found a few useful sites that had information on which Rival Crock Pot replacement parts are actually out there and available for you to purchase from various sites including the official Crock Pot site . A cut a long story short, by going and finding this information online we were able to order a replacement crock pot lid for our crock pot slow cooker and pay less than a quarter of what a completly new rival crock pot would have cost us! ($10 instead of $50 or $60) Since slow cooking is an economical and convenient way to prepare ameal in the first place, it is nice to find a way to save more money on top of that, too. I would think that you can pretty much apply this principle of timely maintenance to many other appliances in the home, so why don’t we do this more often? Maybe deep down we all need something shiny and new once in a while…

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