So I got a new crockpot recently. Did not realize that new ones now operate much hotter than older ones. According to the internet, that is deliberate is apparently there were food safety concerns of older crockpots not cooking the foods hot enough.

On the upside, I can now add "burning food in a crockpot" to my magnificent list of other ways I have burnt food in the past. And yes, that's on the "warm" setting. I can't even imagine what "hot" would do to it.