This product is fantastic. Rice cooker, slow cooker, great. My wife is a professionally trained cook, and I like to eat meat, and I am cheap. There are a lot of delicious bone-in cuts of beef and pork and lamb that are inexpensive and delicious, but hard to cook. This device makes it easy to do a four hour braise in less than a quarter of the time. My wife could fill you in on the details, but all I can say is we are buying these as
gifts for our pals, because they are the bomb. Downside is, when you run this unit like we do (four times a week) the gasket will need replacing, and we had to replace the vent, too. But the Fagor site sends replacement parts pronto and for cheap.