The majority of posts that you may have read on here before have been, for the most part, positive, however I have come to the realization that there are many devoted Rival Crock Pot users out there that have been inconvenienced - and even worse in a few cases, by the apparent failure of their home Rival slow cookers. What I am talking about here is the widely reported problem that many crock pot owners are having with their crock pot lids. At first, I was aware of the occasional random posting by someone online on one forum or another telling whoever would listen of how the handle on the lid of their particular crock pot had failed to stay together and had broken off during use. This of course means that while cooking with their Rival slow cooker, the individual had been lifting the lid and had had the lid drop down back onto the slow cooker because of a failing or broken handle; of course the implication here is that the lid probably dropped into a slow cooker full of hot food and or hot liquid which could potentially burn the person checking on it at the time. Well this is obviously regrettable for the person involved in an isolated incident, I would think to myself, but it was hardly a widespread concern for most regular crock pot users, right? Well, apparently not: as I came across more of these reports during mty time spent online I started to wonder just what was going onhere. I was wondering why so many people would be experiencing the same kind of incident, where the handle of their crock pot lid would crack or break, leaving the crock pot lid still with he metal screw in place and the lid uncracked but with the handle showing clear signs of fatigue, even (in some cases) after just a limited amount of less than rigorous usage. Well, after I did some more digging, I came across a very recent media story on the subject which made it clear to me that this was a sign of amuch larger isue: a weakness in the design of some of the more recent Rival Crock Pots that can result in the fauilure of the plastic lid handles on some models of crock pot. From what was said in this report, it would appear that while acknowledging some uncovered issues with some models of their slow cookers, Rival has not been very quick to deal with this particular issue of handle failure, offering only astatement tot the media when pushed on the subject. I hate to think that it might take a serious injury to someone somewhere using one of these affected models of crock pot slow cooker and the resulting lawsuit for the company to take any real substantive action on the issue, especially when all it would take is the recall of the lids of the specific models of crock pots, something that should not cost Rival too much considering it is a replacement Rival crock pot part that costs the company less than $5 to $10 per piece to have manufactured. (assuming that the average $15 retail price of the item as offered by Rival on their website is around double the cost of what it would cost Rival to have it kept in stock for them)
I have included below the video of the news story that I came across that covered this subject in more detail. Below the video I have included a link to the forum where the cheaper "$2 fix" of using a stronger replacement handle, screw, bolt and washer is discussed. I have also included a link to the page of the website which contains the text of the actual news story, as well as a link to a page offering more information on various Rival Crockpot recalls that are out there in case it might be of any help to any Rival Crockpot slow cooker owners out there.
Here are those links that I mentioned before:
For more information on the "$2 hardware store fix", click here.
For the full text of the Rival Crock Pot faulty handle story, click here.
For more information on various Rival Crock Pot slow cooker model recalls, click here.
