Crock-Pot & Slow Cooker Hats

The Crock-Pot launched in 1971, when Rival showed it at Chicago's National Housewares Show. Sales went from $2 million that year to $93 million by 1975, and the early models came in avocado green and orange-red; the Smithsonian collected an avocado-green Rival Crock-Pot in 2011. The original ad promised that it cooks all day while the cook's away. By 2015 about 81 percent of American homes owned a slow cooker, and owners swap the same habit on forums: throw the goods in the crockpot in the morning and don't touch it until dinner time. There is even a standing argument over whether to say Crock-Pot or slow cooker. These hats take both sides of that argument, since CROCK-POT and SLOW COOKER are the plain badges. LIVE FAST, COOK SLOW and CROCK STAR are the puns, and SET IT AND FORGET IT is the phrase every owner knows. The longer designs carry the bits: a cooker that has been on since Tuesday, a potluck record of 41-0 with the Crock-Pot as the weapon, and a Crock-Pot with its own seat at every potluck. LIVE FAST, COOK SLOW and the settings design each come in a second colorway. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one to the next potluck, or give one to the person whose dip always arrives in a Crock-Pot.