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What is the difference between a crock pot and slow cooker? Both terms seem to be used for the same thing. Is this correct? Are they the same? Or is there some key difference between them?

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Crock-Pot is a brand name. Slow cooker is the generic term.

It's like Kleenex & tissue or for the Brits, Hoover & vacuum.

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crock-pot is a American brand-name slo-cooker is a British brand-name

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"slo-cooker" may be a brand name for a generic 'slow cooker', it just happens to be that the British chose a brand name much closer to the generic. – Bryson Oct 5 '11 at 0:20

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