The Most Ingenious Way to Clean a Slow Cooker Is Also the Easiest — Cleaning Lessons from Kitchn

I love a slow cooker. I inherited mine from a friend a few years ago (it's an older version of this). It's amazing and probably will be for decades to come: My mom still has the one she got for her wedding in the '70s and it works great. I love that I can throw a few ingredients in there in the morning and come home from worked to a perfectly done meal.

The thing I don't love — and I'm sure other slow cooker fans will agree — is that the long cook times sometimes leave you with a ring of crusty, baked-on food that's a pain to remove.

Well, it turns out you don't need to waste your time or energy scrubbing, because you can actually get your slow cooker to clean itself! And unlike other hacky ideas in this genre, this one is actually endorsed by Crock-Pot, so you know you're not going to accidentally ruin your slow cooker.

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