My crock pot finally bit the dust so I've been researching

>>8483697
I only fill my pressure cooker 2/3rd full. I think that's the recommendation.

I wouldn't buy some dual use device. Crock pots are cheap, and you should buy one that fits your needs for slow cooking, whether that need is a browning function, clip on handles for transport in your car, oval shape for roasts, or maybe a preference for a stay warm setting, or glass lid. Pressure cookers are speedy, so yea the opposite of slow cooking. I use them mostly for making tought meat tender fast, beef stews, brisket, corned beef. They are supposed to be fast for beans, but bean skins can clog the opening and that's the reason for most issues with explosions. Most of all I use my pressure cooker to make chicken stock fast.

>>8483697
I have one of those (the big version), it's awesome. Definitely don't get the small one even if you only cook a little food at once. The more you fill it the more likely you are to get food splattering on the lid, which means you have to clean it. If only steam touches the lid then you never have to clean it. The main benefit of an electric pressure cooker is enabling laziness, so why compromise that to save a little space?

>>8483718
It has slow cooker mode but there's no reason to use it because the pressurized modes make the food just as tender in less time. And I cook dried beans regularly and I never have anything touch the lid because I don't fill it past 4l and let it depressurize naturally. And even if I didn't there's a metal guard covering the pressure release valve so it's not going to clog, it just means you have more work to do cleaning it. And it has multiple safety safety mechanisms - modern pressure cookers don't explode.

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>>8483697
i saw a bad ass hamilton beach model at target yesterday morning. it's the one i'd get if mine bit it.

i wouldn't trust anything that advertises itself as a slow cooker / pressure cooker

they literally serve opposite functions and i imagine it's at best mediocre at either

you'd be better off getting a cheap old vintage one (new ones are crap, they have a higher low temperature and do not cook slow at all)

and the biggest pressure cooker you can find (mine is 24 quarts)

>>8485758

A slow cooker is nothing but a ceramic insert with a heating element. Why wouldn't a pressure cooker with a heating element be just as good?

>>8485824
too small as a pressure cooker
too hot as a slow cooker
expensive