Oster 5712 Electronic 2-tier food steamer is just superb! I never used a food steamer before and I didn't have any problem to use it rightaway after reading the manual. I prefer to do things parallely so that I can finish my cooking in less time. My Oster food steamer helps to do that. Steamer is not the option to cook faster but certainly it helps you not to stand in front of your stove to monitor. So you can practically do anything out of your kitchen while cooking in this steamer. It has alarm system to let you know when you need to put more water. It has a 95 minute timer with LCD display....