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I need a weaning period with my slowcooker. I put it in my garage for a few months (actually 3. I owned THREE.) to see if I needed them before giving them away. I admit I still have 1 of the 3, but haven't used it in a long time. I liked the weaning approach because the IP does have a learning curve and if there was a day I really wanted a CrockPot recipe and didn't want to deal with figuring out how to adapt it for the IP, I could use it. But I learned prettttty fast to use the IP for most things. I do keep a crockpot mostly for warming/serving uses for large get togethers - I think it holds things like dips and soups and chilis better on the low setting than an IP would.

Long story short, just stash it somewhere for a few months and if you don't use it, give it away! But if you want to give it away now, I imagine there's no shortage of crockpots you can snag for a few bucks at Goodwill.

I have kept my 2 other slow cookers for 2 reasons. 1) I love to batch cook so there are definitely times where I have both slow cookers and the Instant Pot going on the same day. 2) I've tried the slow cooker function on my IP and have never liked it. It didn't cook as well as my actual slow cooker.

I kept my slowcooker but haven't used it in over a year.. but then it came in handy for Thanksgiving! I was using my instant pot to make something, and also had the slow cooker to make creamed corn. So I guess I won't be tossing mine after all.