I bought a tefal electronic rice cooker last year which also functions as a slow cooker. The rice is really good (I am useless at cooking rice so thought I had to try something). I have had a slow cooker before and loved it. I tried making beef stew in the new one (I still have the old one in the attic - it's only thirty three years old!) and it was just awful. I don't know if it was something to do with the bowl being metalic, tefal lined. My old one has a ceramic bowl. Or maybe it's just my cooking...!