Fill it with water, dish soap, and let it sit for a couple hours or overnight (depending on how dirty it is). These tips will help your crockpot cleaning process go as smoothly as possible: Soak Your Crock Pot Right AwayĪs soon as dinner is served, you should empty the leftovers from your slow cooker into a different container, and soak your slow cooker right away in the sink. Instead, we have some tips for those of you who would rather go liner-less. In order to keep your food safe, we don’t recommend substituting store-bought liners with DIY slow cooker liners or anything like that. If it’s old, you may have to replace it or get it repaired. Take a look at your crock pot and try to see if you can sort out the issue.
Both of these problems could affect how well the liners work. If your crock pot is a bit older, it may be heating unevenly or even overheating. If a ton of people are having success with these liners but they’re leaking or causing a weird smell for you, it may be the crock pots fault, not the liner. We’re not sure why, but this should help stop the liners from melting. The solution is simple: before you put your liner into the crockpot with your food, spray the inside of the crockpot with cooking spray. If you try out the liner and it DOES melt, this tip should help fix that problem. Before trying this tip out, we recommend just trying a liner on its own first because this problem is pretty uncommon. This is a tip to help fix the melted liner problem. Here are the top 3 common problems they were reporting:Īll of those sound pretty bad, so to ensure that your slow cooker liner experience is a good one, here are some tips to make your slow cooker experience a success! Spray Your Crockpot with Cooking Spray While reading reviews of crock pot liners on the internet, there were a ton of positive ones and there were also a small number of people who had some negative things to say about them. Less water waste – If you use a liner, you won’t need to soak your crock pot meaning you’re using less hot water.Clean up is fast – As I said above, clean up with a slow cooker liner is as easy as removing the liner and throwing it in the trash.You don’t have to use a liner every time you cook with your crockpot, but you’ll love having them just in case.