Saves my crock and my poor crippled hands
Ok, here is the bad: it is not very easy to clean because it is pretty floppy (I hand wash; the dishwasher might work better), and it has retained some of the odor of the food cooked in it, and it is a little stained from the turmeric I use.Now the good: it works really well, my actual crock in my slow cooker is protected from being dropped (yeah, it has happened, which is why I bought this in the first place), and it much easier to wash than the crock as well, as I have carpal tunnel and arthritis and lifting that heavy thing to rinse in the sink is nearly impossible for me. And it has little loops on the sides that go around the protruding edges of the crock to help keep it in place while cooking and to hang dry after washing.It fits my 8 qt Beautiful (isn't that the Drew Barrymore brand?) slow cooker perfectly, except the steam gathers in the lid and sometimes leaks over the side of the cooker instead of back into the crock, so I put a cookie sheet under my slow cooker to catch the drips, like a half ounce or so of water, not much, but it took a bit to figure out where that puddle came from.Oh and I have seen pictures of these liners full of food sitting on a table as if you can serve from them: hahahahaha, no. These are floppy silicone liners, kind of like a condom for your slow cooker. I can not imagine you could pull them from the cooker full of food without it spilling all over the place - and I have never tried. But as liners, they rock, they're reusable and nontoxic, and pretty darn inexpensive for the service they provide. A really good buy in my opinion.I use it to cook my dog food about 4 times a week, and it has been holding up really well for the past several months I have had it. I have only used it on the low setting, which is hot enough to simmer so I have not needed the high setting, so I can't speak as to the heat it can tolerate, but it seems that it could handle it just fine..I don't use a slow cooker much except for making dog food, but when I do use it to cook for the humans in the house, I just use the other liner (there are two in the package) because my dogs eat meat and we don't, and there is a meaty kind of odor to the one used for dog food, which is normal.Overall, I have no real complaints about these liners, use them a lot and am really glad I bought them.