I love the small micro-cooker from Pampered Chef because I use it for everything; it is very versatile and extremely useful.

It's great for warming milk for hot chocolate, water for tea, melting butter and chocolate, heating cans of soup or vegetables, making rice, boiling hot dogs, boiling potatoes, which is faster than baking them, and just as good.  It also makes it much easier to peel the skins off if you need to use the potatoes for a salad or other dish like mashed potatoes.  Boiling frozen or fresh vegetables.  You can do just about anything with this pot that you can do on a stove,...