I purchased the B&T proofer, and am enjoying using it for baking. Am not so happy about it's performance in the slow-cooker department, which I am very interested in. My first attempt was a failure, with the temperature never getting high enough. My plan is to cook a corned-beef, which I want to cook at a controlled temperature. (My commercial slow cooker is too hot, even on the low setting). Today, as an experiment, I brought a heavy pot of plain water up to 190 degrees on the stove top, so that the proofer didn't have to generate the heat in the first place, and then put it in the proofer, on slow-cook mode, set to 190. Set up a recording thermometer to monitor the temp, which proceeded to drop to 175 over the next half hour. I bumped the set temp up to the max, at 190, and the temperature did come up, but only to 178 degrees. Is this the best I can expect from this unit, or do I have a faulty device?

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