The recall includes Rival Crock-Pot slow cookers with model numbers 3040, 3735, 5025, 5070 and 5445. The model number is printed on the UL label located on the bottom of the base.

Launched in 1971 by Kansas City's Rival Manufacturing, the Crock-Pot was marketed not just as a convenient way to cook, but also as a revolutionary aid for working women.

In 2011, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History collected a Rival Crock-Pot in a distinctly ‘70s hue of avocado green. The electric cooker with a ceramic crock shows a few signs of ...

Former Rival home economists Kathy Moore and Roxanne Wyss estimate that this vintage Crock-Pot was manufactured in the late 1980s. The pitch worked. Crock-Pot sales hit $2 million the first year ...