I rarely have rice as a child and when I do , it be boil-in-a-bag or rice pilaf . well , my husband and he family eat rice every day . in fact , they do not consider it a meal unless there be a side of rice . they also have this tradition where they would scrape the burnt portion off the bottom of the rice cooker and divide it up evenly so that no rice be waste . needless to say , I be not a fan of this tradition . so I get rid of the $ 20 rice cooker and get this guy . and I be in love . I have make at least one batch of rice every day for a year and I have never have a burnt batch or mushy batch . it come out perfectly every time . I cook many type of rice : white , brown , black , basmatus , jasmine , short-grain , wild rice , etc. . it be suitable for all of these . my husband hate brown rice before this cooker and now he eat it several time a week . there be two negative , but I do not think they be bad enough to warrant fewer star : 1 . -rrb- for anything other than white rice , this be really a 2-cup rice cooker . 2 . -rrb- it do not make brown rice porridge at all . it make a great white rice porridge and even do well with half white\/half brown . but when I try to make brown rice porridge , all I get be some cook brown rice sit in a puddle of water . great rice cooker ! Worth every penny !