This is my first steamer, and I do not regret my choice; it is very compact (all elements fit together) and therefore very easy to store and really easy to use. Moreover, we can safely cook a full meal for 5 good eaters, it is spacious enough (eg rice, vegetables, fish.); heat is distributed well throughout, and it is not too noisy. A good investment! :-) If there was one downside is that there is no recipe in accompanying documents, except for some ideas for using the molds cake (which I do not use it). But there are enough ideas on the net ...