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Frozen chicken breasts perfectly cooked in 18 mins! The manual isn’t very helpful, so you’ll want to get a recipe book or search online for cooking tips. Here’s how to manually set the cook time on this unit: press one of the preset menu buttons FIRST, THEN press the Time Cook button, then use + or – to add or subtract from the preset cook time, then press Start. For those complaining that the machine chimes when active cooking is finished (rather than a few minutes later, after all the steam is naturally released), you want to know exactly when cooking is done so you can use the quick release valve if you want. It’s the little black dial on the lid, you want to turn this about a quarter-way so it opens and lets the steam come blasting out; use a utensil to open it rather than your bare hand and don’t stand directly over the valve. Quick release takes less than 1 minute rather then 2 or 3, and prevents fast-cooking foods like pasta and eggs from getting overdone. Last tip: larger solid items like roasts or chicken breasts (you can even cook a whole chicken!) will cook better if you use one of the metal stands that conveniently comes with this unit.