Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

So many other positive reviews on here that I feel mine is just an echo. But I will say this from an absolute rookie in the kitchen...this little gadget is worth almost triple the price to me. I lost my wife to cancer about 10 months ago. While I've always been able to cook, and indeed did most of the family cooking the last 18 months of her time with us, I was never what I would call a "variety" cook. I was the backup to my wife's cooking, the "Mom isn't feeling well so dad is cooking for you tonight" kind of guy. Or if the weather was nice, I was the grill/smoker kind of cook. Dinner nights with dad usually meant spaghetti, chili, taco's or some other very simple dish. About 2 years ago, I went mostly paleo and organic, trying to give my wife some comfort food that she could handle in her late stages of liver cancer. So while I upped my repertoire a bit, it was still pretty basic. After her death, I was left cooking all meals for two kids every night, or up to five people on the weekends with visits from daughters' boyfriends and such. I had to really step up my game. But I'm a working executive also and planning meals is hard enough, let alone having a free hour every night to actually cook them. That's where this little guy comes into play beautifully. Grab this, go grab Bob Warden's two cookbooks and you simply have almost 100+ fast cooking, easy prep, very common ingredient meals to choose from. Most of them are kid friendly, and with very little changes, you can make many of them 100% paleo compliant if you want. Literally the best money I've spent in my life. Time saving, easy to use, easy to clean (love the stainless steel removable pot), usually able to sear and cook without even removing drippings. Pork loins come to life, chicken has never been more tender, beef is fork tender and even seafoods come out perfect. While nothing helps soothe the pain of loss, gadgets like this help to give you back some time to deal with the struggle of bereavement. I just bought two more for holiday gifts for family members who are now raving about my cooking.