Some of you guys are going to HATE this. I was looking to see when it was invented and found that the crock pot was invented by a Jew to cook a traditional Jewish Sabbath meal.
Irving Nachumsohn
An inventor named Irving Nachumsohn received the patent for the device that became the Crock-Pot on Jan. 23, 1940. Nachumsohn, who went by the surname Naxon, invented the slow cooker to cook cholent, a traditional stew eaten by Jews in eastern Europe on the Sabbath.
That said, we got ours probably in the late 70's. We still have the original one although I had to find a replacement lid.
