This happened to be a BestBuy Sale of the day, and I nabbed it for 39.99. My dad hopped on the bandwagon and nailed him one too. The only reason why I did not give it a 5 star rating is because the manual is quote confusing if you have never has experience with a pressure cooker and I have not. I did go to pinterest and Google some recipes and play around with the settings. Some of the buttons like rice, saute, have preset time limits and they only go through certain numbers. In order to cook something for exactly 4 minutes, I pushed the saute button and made it go down to 4 minutes. It was an experiment, to see if it worked . The directions do say not to make macaroni and cheese in this, but I did and it worked just fine. It cooked fresh mac n cheese in 4 minutes. It made chicken and rice in less than 8 minutes. It is a learning curve to use one, but once you get used to it, you will wonder how in the world did you live without it!

It has the perfect size for me (6 quarts). It works well with both soups and also meat dishes like pot roast. I like the safety features especially since once it reaches pressure, you don't hear it whistling or rattling. The reason I won't give it 5 stars is the instructions need to be written better. I kept pressing the preset button which means you are setting the time the unit turns off and that you need to click one of the meal presets and wait till the time shows up so you can adjust the cook time until I experimented.

I used a pressure cooker once at work and I was hooked. It steamed carrots in about 4 minutes. It's very easy to make any meal in this pressure cooker. The one thing I didn't like is that there's no preset button for meats. I first used the chili button for chicken per recommendation in the manual and the meat was overcooked and dry. I think it's best to use the Saute button for chicken and maybe for beef as well. You can use that with the lid off or lock it to steam it a bit. Because of that there's a bit of a learning curve but a little trial and error and it's very easy to make any meal. Vegetables are the easiest; steam them in about 3-5 minutes. I have many more meals to try in this thing but so far so good!

Overall, this is a pretty good pressure cooker. It has a nice stainless steel bowl and appears to be of pretty good quality. For the price I purchased it for, I am quite pleased. The weirdness comes from trying to cook using different settings from the standard buttons. For some strange reason the manufacturer decided to increment the timer in 30 minute intervals vs. using minutes which makes custom settings virtually impossible. Rather, I choose to use my own separate timer to avoid the confusion. That said, I'm happy with my purchase and it does a good job.

I got this on a deal of the day for a good price. Quality and construction is good but it has only basic buttons and the instructions are not that helpful. We've used it once for white riceand another time for chicken adobo. Both came out good but since there is no specific setting for chicken, you just have to kind of cook it manually and time it yourself.