The infomercial made the process and product sound so easy but in reality it is not. There are only a few recipes that allow putting all the ingredients in at one time (mostly the ones shown on the infomercial) but most other recipes call for many steps in the food prep that it really does not save that much time and becomes very labor intensive. Our primary reason for the purchase was to have one-step, one-pot meals but unfortunately that is not the case. The fact that it takes over 30 minutes to come up to pressure alone is cause for disappointment, but if a recipe calls for that to be done 3 times in 3 steps, which some do, it is not really a time saver at all. All of this to say: after experimenting with this pressure cooker, we will be returning it.