Emeril Everyday Pressure Air Fryer, Stainless steel, 8 Qt with 5 Pc Accessory Pack, Silver

I have two other pressure parts of a well-known brand. My EPAF is by far my favorite pressure pot. It has easy controls, designed much better for customizing and no problems with “burn” notices. It is precise, controlled cooking. I make coldstart yogurt & many other recipes with the Sous Vide feature, perfect “boiled” eggs every time, our 8 to 9 lb Christmas ham, cheesecake, proof yeast dough, ribs from frozen to fall off the bone in minutes, etc.No pressure pot is “instant” there is heat up time, pressure time & pressure release time, but it will greatly reduce the typical cook time and tome “hovering” over your food.It has made me a better cook. My family loves it! Lots of Youtube videos & recipes on the web for pressure pots now. I convert many of my own.

A few years ago I decided to explore cooking by pressure cooker. Especially with today’s free standing electric units, 100% different than a pressure cooker in the 1950’s on a gas range where one had to be conscious every minute of the gauge and time. The best experiment I undertook. I used a few of today’s kinds, now owning a 3, 6, 8, and 10 quart size. But this 8 quart style, similar to my 6 and 10 quart, with the stainless steel pot and option of changing the time and temperature caught my eye. For me, the stainless steel pot makes foods taste wonderful, clean up is easy, simply wash and to refresh the looks of the inside of the pot to new, clean only the inside of the pot with Cameo or another stainless steel cleaner. This unit includes necessary trivet, basket, glass lid for regular cooking. For pressure cooking, there is a wealth of preset choices, however, there is a Custom setting too where one can adjust the time for pressure cooking increasing it up to 2 hours or more by simply increasing the time after the timer is counting down. For braising, (browning) meats, sautéing (frying) onions, and vegetables by way of the Sauté setting, the ability to adjust the time and temp comes in handy. Also, while cooking, rotate the pot round and round, it swivels easily, helpful when frying hamburger meat down for spaghetti sauce, etc. This clever adjustable pressure cooker is so functional. SUGGEST: Place flat trivet in bottom of cooking pot (optional); water, (don’t forget the water), seasoned Roast, layers of onion, quartered, carrots, (diced about 1/2” pieces), potatoes, cubed, (not too small, keep large or whole if small), season with salt and pepper between each layer, set Custom approximately 1 1/2 - 2 hours. When done, remove each layer to serving dishes, make gravy with juice in pot on Sauté setting. Wonderful quick meal. Hint: Make extra of everything, lots of gravy. Allow leftovers to cool in frig. Cut leftover meat into bite size pieces as well as vegetables, mix all together with gravy for Beef Stew as second meal. I don’t call this serving “left overs”; I call this serving “PLAN OVERS”. Smile.Must also mention, the crisp it up top came in real handy when needing to serve a leftover Onion Blossom brought home from a restaurant. And the glass lid with 2 steam holes works perfect on the Sauté setting after adding homemade dumplings to Knoefla or Paprikash Soup. Experiment, so many uses. Just love modern technology to make things easier.

Would recommend this product to anyone. Have no issues and works as expected.

Update:I reduced to 4 stars because after about a year, it just quit working.original review:I have cooked several meals with this product so far and everything came out great. We've been making microwave white and sweet potatoes because the oven always has something else in it when making dinner. Now it's very easy to bake a couple potatoes in the air fryer, and they come out tasting like real baked potatoes. Also I like falafel, but that's always been a problem because you really need to deep fry them... I don't like that because it can be dangerous and you end up with a lot of used oil to deal with. Falafel in the air fryer worked out great!... Another one is fried chicken... Air fried chicken turned out great. We also like brown rice. In our rice cooker it takes over an hour to cook, in the pressure cooker it took about 35 minutes...I will probably use this product every day now.

Bought one of the "used" units that supposed to be cosmetic damage. Huge dent in unit the size of my hand. Metal band across the top missing, and gasket to seal steamer cover nonexistent. All that for a 25.00 or so discount. Returned and ordered a new unit. Gave it a 3 star because I'm hoping new unit works.UPDATE: Received a NEW unit. Upgraded to 5 stars. These are really great additions to your kitchen! Cook a roast from frozen to falling apart in 90 minutes! Make homemade yogurt for less than 1/4 the cost of store-bought (and tastes better too)! Air-fry steak, pork chops, chicken...SO easy. I should have bought one of these YEARS ago.

Love the stainless steel liner. No more teflon that will get nicked and flake off. Easy to use. The lid is so easy to clean. Seals like a dream and I even canned all my green beans in it and then air fried some cheese curds.

We bought this item in February, I loved that it was really big and worked great for my big family, the only down side was the air fry function took a lot of batches for fry’s to get done. Until about 7 months in and was using the pressure cooker setting and it dented in during the cooking cycle. I’ve been reaching out to customer service since then and have been told to reach out to another email, and it never responds to you. Just a warning from a mom and wife that if you do end up with a defective item they won’t help you.

There was nothing wrong with this product. I just found it very heavy for me to handle. My age and physical condition played a role in this decision. Also, it was much heavier than the 8 qt unit that I had to return because it of a recall. I was surprised by the increase in weight.