Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Update 11-27-15: The manufacturer suggested to replace the fuse. Based on its failure mode, I was certain that would not work. But I did it anyway because it was cheap and easy. Lo and behold my cooker is back in action. Back up to 5 stars since a $3.00 fuse and fifteen minutes of my time does not bother me at all. Here's the fuse: Thermal Fuse 128 Degrees Celsius Update 11-8-15: The electronics have failed. Awaiting feedback from the seller. Reducing from 5 stars to 1 star for now. Standby... Update 9-26-15: A number of reviews describe failure of the electronics. Mine has not failed for two and a half years, and I use it often. I see that Amazon offers a three year warranty for 9 bucks and I would take that if I bought another one. Update 4-8-13: You might consider getting a spare lid or at least spare gaskets to use for savory versus non-savory foods. After cooking jambalaya, the gasket retains some onion and garlic smell. That did not seem to bother the final flavor of the bread pudding I next made. But I can imagine it might at some point. So I am switching gaskets for savory versus non-savory foods. I cooked three dishes with this the first day I had it. Mexican rice, Creole chicken, and a big pot of McCann's steel cut Irish oats. The speed is amazing, a few minutes of prep, a few minutes in the cooker and a few minutes to de-pressurize. It is truly awesome on the steel cut oatmeal, normally you have to stand there for about an hour stirring every few moments. With the Secura, I dumped in the oats and the water at bedtime, and set the timer to cook the oatmeal for 5 minutes at 6:30 this morning. When we got up the oatmeal was perfectly done, the pot had depressurized and it was ready to eat!!! That is really unheard of. With a small kitchen here at the office, I can prep and cook all or part of dinner while at work. I bought two extra gaskets so I won't have to scramble for them when the time comes. Check out hippresure dot com for tons of info on pressure cooking, (that's not a typo on hippresure, two p's.) Also missvickie dot com; another excellent pressure cooking website. Miss Vickie is not keen on electric pressure cookers but it is still a super resource. I really wish I had been using this cooker for the last 25 years, but glad to have it now. It will change your cooking life.