From full-flavored veggies to fork-tender meat, slow cookers provide time-saving cooking convenience to easily prepare delicious meals including breakfast foods, soups, and stews to game-day appetizers, main courses, and desserts. A multi-purpose cooker is an all-in-one appliance that can replace so many different meal preparation appliances such as pressure cookers, rice cookers, steamers to name a few. A multi-purpose cooker can sometimes be called an instant pot. They are a great option for cooking meals quickly--up to 70% quicker than conventional cooking. Because a multi-cooker has preset timers, it's hard to ruin your food. As multipurpose cookers use less oil for cooking, it can reduce the calories in your food. Also, using multi-purpose cookers can be a healthier choice because food cooks more quickly helping to retain vitamins and minerals compared to traditional ways of cooking. Convenient one-touch settings for various pressure-cooked meals allows you choose to eat sooner, or you can use the slow cook setting to come back later to a delicious, hot meal. You can also steam, brown, sauté, simmer, and boil. Some models feature an upper steam tray that allows for healthy steaming of meats and vegetables, even as rice cooks below. Aside from its preset settings, you can also use it manually to cook your food. You can set your desired temperature and the time for it to complete.