Wish we'd had a slow cooker when my Dada was alive - false teeth MOD supply so not very good at chewing, and needed his meat practically in liquid form (slight exaggeration
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Seriously though, slow cookers are a wonderful invention and you can get them with bells and whistles too - mine is a simple soul with 2 heat settings, but there are versions with numerous heat settings, timers, buzzers, and in all shapes and sizes