With the Max, Instant Pot achieves its vision for a smart cooker, providing you the capability to cook in the full temperature spectrum - fermentation, sous vide, warming, simmering, slow cook, boiling, pressure cook and completing the circle with saut and searing. The Instant Pot Max is a revolutionary multicooker featuring sustained 15psi pressure cooking capability and NutriBoostTM technology which further enhances the cooking process, using up to 70% less energy. Above all, it produces nutritious, healthy and tasty dishes in a convenient and consistent manner. Offering the industry s highest sustained working pressure at 15psi. Historically, this pressure level has only been achieved by stove-top pressure cookers. With 15psi pressure you can now do home pressure canning. It is positioned to be the industry s first USDA approved electric pressure cooker for home canning. With the Max, pressure cooker recipes perfected over time can now be prepared as the recipe is written, another great advantage!