Slow Cooker Pot, or Regular Pot?

[lordkenmore]

Yesterday, I got this pot on clearance at a local thrift shop. I grabbed it, because it looks like a West Bend slow cooker pot. I remembered having a West Bend slow cooker that had a pot I didn't want to use (severe interior enamel damage).

Today, I unearthed the slow cooker, and discovered this new pot is different. Upon closer study, I discovered that the new pot says "Scandia by West Bend." With some Googling, I've discovered that West Bend apparently had a pan line named Scandia. I'm now wondering if this pot is a regular stove top pot.

Possibility #2 is that this is a variation on the West Bend slow cooker design--a slightly different style of pot, labeled "Scandia." If so, is it safe to use on a regular stove (with the care that any enamel cookware needs)?

 

[coldspot]

That would have had a hot plate thing to set on. I have a bean crock that works the same.

I think you could use it on a stove if careful.
Here is a photo of one

http://www.etsy.com/listing/77619891/the-scandia-pot-by-west-bend-lazy-day

 

[coldspot]

Duh brain fart kicked in. The plat is like a griddle flat solid. If you have a cheap stove top griddle to set it on it would be safe to use at med heat to low. Or even a electric griddle.

 

[westie2]

LordKenmore

We had the slower cooker you had it was ovals in shape.  When the bottom plate went out I think the bowl and lid went to Good Will.  We like it to slow cook bean in did a great job on them.

 

 

 

[norgeway]

This Was!

A Slow Cooker, I know because we had one in the 70s and somewhere I still have the book, It did sit on a heated base, that had a temperature control, I never liked it as good as I did the Rival, because the heat just came from the bottom instead of the sides, But My Mom got a lot of use out of it.

 

[lordkenmore]

Thanks for the answers!

The pot does match the Etsy pot linked to by Coldspot. So it's reasonable to think this pot is a slow cooker pot. Although I do wonder if it wasn't available separately, too. I found an ad for Scandia. The ad did say that there was a 6 QT Dutch oven. The photo is, unfortunately, poor, so I can't tell if it matches my pot.

Although this is irrelevant. As I said before, I'd bought this pot with the idea of resurrecting a West Bend slow cooker. That won't be happening, since A)the lid on that slow cooker won't fit my new pot (so much for the thought that all brown West Bend slow cooker pots "must" be the same!) and B) I discovered that the hot plate part has issues and probably is beyond hope.

Here is a link to the Scandia cookware ad. It's sort of sad seeing this. Taking the worst price ($77 open stock) and adjusting for inflation with an on-line calculator, it comes to $228...which would now buy Made in China.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19790831&id=s2MaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DCsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3772,8044033