oh, my GOSH, out of the frying pan and into the fire.. so now i have to worry about my old one containing lead, and my new one containing some kind of non-stick chemical! that is terrible.
to answer your question, i *did* persist w/ the customer service person, the second time i called rival, to ask whether or not the crock pot stoneware was non-stick just by virtue of it being ceramic, or b/c of a non-stick chemical, and he said it was a non-stick chemical.
i guess the ideal would be to find a crockpot made in the early to mid 90s, after the lead thing came out, but before the non-stick!!!
alycia