The Presto 307912 6-Quart Stainless Steel Pressure Cooker is a great value. We've used it to quickly cook collard greens (5 minutes cook time), mustard greens (4 minutes cook time, smoked ham hocks (35 minutes cook time), stewed beef for soup (9 minutes), and to pre-cook (par-boil) chicken wings before deep frying them. The cook times are AFTER the unit starts its steam spewing cycle which usualy takes about 5 minutes on our ceramic top stove.We typically turn the stove on high (10) and once the cooker starts to generate steam we turn it down to medium (4 or 5).Assembly is straight forward and simple. Clean-up of the stainless steel unit is also easy. It is a very welcome and cost effective addition to our kitchen.