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slow cooker

electrical cooking appliance used to prepare food by simmering for several hours, mostly unattended
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slow cooker

Summary

slow cooker ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (872 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • slow cooker is credited with the discovery of Irving Naxon[2].
  • slow cooker is a type of cooking appliance[3].
  • slow cooker is a type of home appliance[4].
  • slow cooker's Commons category is recorded as Slow cookers[5].
  • slow cooker's different from is recorded as retained-heat cooker[6].
  • slow cooker's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+3632342'}[7].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include cooking appliance[3] and home appliance[4].

Why It Matters

slow cooker ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (872 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . The Washington Post. Retrieved . washingtonpost.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_slow-cooker_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{slow cooker}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/slow-cooker}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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  1. 27d ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Discoverer or inventor → Irving Naxon
    Subclass of → cooking appliance, home appliance
    Social media followers → {'amount': '+3632342'}
    Subclass of → —
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0008089-rimsky-hrnec, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
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