I am a recent convertee to the miracle of pressure cooking, so I may not be the best critic...but I was impressed.  I am still getting the hang of cooking on a flat cooktop, so I misjudged when to calculate the cooking time originally.  When I finally got that part worked out with when the little "bobble head" started rocking back and forth...it did exactly what it said and the food was perfect.  So, once you get the rhythm of how this works, this was a good deal for the money paid and it is the perfect size for most every day cooking for a family of four.  I would like to find an advanced cookbook now to make more recipes, so I can use it all the time to cut down on my cooking time.  Bon appetite!!