Farmquilter - great tip on making eggs for salads or sandwiches.
If you want to speed up the pre heating time just add your liquid to the pot & then put it on saute mode. It will start heating up the liquid pretty quickly. While that is heating, start putting your "food" items together. Put your food in the pot & then cancel the saute mode & change the setting to your cooking mode. It does shave off a bit of pre heating time.