The Company also has exposure to the higher-priced, higher-margin global commercial foodservice and hotel room amenities markets. The Hamilton Beach Set & Forget is a high-value programmable slow cooker with excellent cooking performance. It’s incredibly easy to set and gives consistent results every time. This was a favorite of ours for those meals you throw in the pot in the morning and let cook all day while you are busy working or playing.
Our experts test thousands of products each year using thoughtful test plans that bring out key performance differences between competing products. And, to assure complete independence, we buy all the products we test ourselves. Just real, honest, side-by-side testing and comparison. This slow cooker made great steamed veggies that were evenly done, with not a mushy zucchini in sight. The screen of this slow cooker is not lit like many others, so you’ll have to bend down to see it. We found the programming buttons on the Set & Forget very easy to use, but if you happen to go past the setting you want, you have to cycle through the whole range again.
Moreover, you still need to go through the trouble of filling up your coffee maker each day and pressing the Ready to Brew button before you can control it remotely. You can also use Alexa Routines so it automatically brews your coffee at a specific time each day. To brew with voice commands or the Alexa app, you must first fill your machine Cuisinart Coffee with water and ground coffee, then press Ready to Brew. A green light next to the Ready to Brew button will illuminate, indicating the machine is ready to be controlled remotely. If you forget to press the Ready to Brew button, you won’t be able to control the coffee maker by voice or through the Alexa app, which is frustrating.
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They won’t scald your fingers, but they are hot, so be careful. Another thing to consider is that the screen is not lit, so you’ll have to bend down to counter level to program it. When you’re ready for coffee, just say, “Alexa, turn on my coffee maker,” and a red brewing light on the machine will turn on. If you don’t have an Alexa speaker in the room, or you don’t feel like talking, you Hamilton Beach can navigate to your coffee maker in the Devices section of the Alexa app and press the power button. I’m PCMag’s expert on fitness and smart home technology, and I’ve written more than 6,000 articles and reviews in the 10-plus years I’ve been here. I unbox, set up, test, and review a wide range of consumer tech products from my home in Florida, often with the help of my pitbull Bradley.