RPCookin
Executive Chef
Well, that shoots that idea down. But I don't give up that easily. Aren't the electrical coils at the bottom covered so that when you take out the pot itself, they are not exposed? If so what if the danger of just letting the screw fall down inside?
The body of the crockpot has a double wall, with some sort of insulation protecting the outer wall, and the pot sets inside of the inner wall. That's so that the outside wall doesn't get dangerously hot. The screw would fall down between the two walls, and the element may be exposed down there. Since there is no way to touch it, there is no reason to suppose that it is protected from the screw resting on it. I certainly wouldn't take the chance. I got shocked when I was a kid by sticking a table knife into a toaster while it was on. I learned then that the electricity flowing through the the element is not always insulated.
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