Hi Greengoddess
You can get a slow cooker from Jashanmal in Abu Dhabi Mall (food court end, ground floor). I got mine from there and was around Dh160 and works brilliantly. Doesn't have a timer, but I found a solution - Ikea does a delayed timer plug (in lighting section) so you plug your slow cooker in with the timer plug and set it to run from e.g. 4 hours from now until 9 hours from now. Hope this helps!
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Thanks Wikkid but thats a bit more than we were hoping to pay :-( It looks like the Cordoba is the one for us after all.
Thanks also for setting up the very informative website and sorry that you seem to be getting such a lot of hassle re comments!