Just purchased one of these from their website. Basically it's a food safe plastic box with a lid (which is only used for draining the pasta). It cooks the pasta in the microwave in about 10 minutes depending on quantity. This is overall much faster than the stove when you take into account the time needed to boil the water. I've used it a few times and followed their direction regarding quantities and time and been rewarded with perfect al dente pasta each time. I got this mainly because of eas