Slow cooker (1917?)

[A. Maberry]

I took a look at the thesis mentioned below. The "slow cooker" is pretty
much just that. A thermostatically controlled element incorporated into
the bottom of a large, cylindrical, pot, with heavily insulated
(w/asbestos) walls and a lid. No crockery involved, however.

allen
maberry at u.washington.edu


On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>    There's not a whole lot for "slow cooker" before 1970 (full text NY
TIMES and trademark records were checked), but there's a ton of stuff
_starting_ that year.  Here are the first two OCLC WorldCat citations, and
notice the large gap.  A "crock pot" in 1917 at the University of Washington?