My SO has wanted a ricer for a long time. I kept offering to get him one but he couldn't decide on a brand and told me to wait. The opportunity to check this one out came up and I had to take it. This came around 8 o'clock at night and my SO was packing for an upcoming trip. I told him that this came and he dropped everything and went into the kitchen to make mashed potatoes. As a lover of this food, I couldn't complain. He said the insert fit in perfectly and it was really ease to use. He said he didn't have to use much pressure at all to press down and even thought I could do it without aggravating my wrist (which later proved correct). He said it cut down enormously on the time it took to make the potatoes which I noticed too as I thought maybe he'd already done something ahead like cleaned and boiled the potatoes, but he'd done no such thing. The potatoes were delicious with no lumps. He said clean-up was easy as well, that it took less time than ensuring beaters are clean.