Smoke Free home,Made in UK, not China .What a good old piece of cooking kit,no fancy electronics on/off,auto/high/low,so simple!, used to use this all the time in the winter when we had full household of 4 children and us, leave it on while u r at work arrive home to inviting smell in kitchen,ad just plate up.Only 135 watts ,so on for 8 hours will cost you 60pence,you can put clay pot in oven with a suet or pastry crust to make a huge pie which we did often, slight chip on pot, switch works fine even if it feels a bit vague, just used to leave it on auto , Heavy cook-pot,collect if u want north Doncaster or I will post07532704636,see my other family sized assorted cooking pots????down sized to a old peoples one !