I'm genuinely confused here.
You put the time into a slow cooker?
I thought they were basically like mine and degsy's - high, low and maybe auto.
I think degsy is suggesting a timer plug that you bung in your socket and then you plug your SC into that so, for example, you set the timer plug for 2pm bung the SC in and it will eventually turn on at 2pm just as if you were at home.
Degsy may correct me or agree?

With mine when 2pm comes around the power will come on to the cooker - it will power up and then it will sit there waiting for you to tell it what to do. It doesn't have the capacity to remember how long its to cook or what temprature once its powered off.
As I originally posted, its a big stumbling block to how I would want to use a SC. I should've got one with a sleep function or one where the settings are mechanical not electrical (which I assume yours is). But its hard to know what the stumbling blocks are going to be when you've never used one before

There's a rice setting on the Cook's Essentials one.

Is this SC of your's still on the market?
Can you tell us the make/model, I'm baffled.

Its a Russell Hobbs

Don't think its still available - I've had it years tbh.

I have the Cooks Essential one now and it is fine - no problems with it but the new Instapot Duo is somthing else. Lots more features and does not have a non-stick lining (which I prefer). Also it allows you to saute things like onion and garlic before pressure cooking with other things. On sale on Friday.
Son is waiting in the wings to take the CE one away for me.

Go for it smarty pants

Why do you prefer to not have a non_stick lining?

[quote=Toby LaRhone;75496993]Go for it smarty pants

Why do you prefer to not have a non_stick lining?[/QUOTE


So that I can use any utensil in them and I don't get annoyed when it scratches.