this be a great little rice cooker . Worth every penny ! a couple of cooking note . as someone who grow up on white rice , I find switching over to brown be difficult . I have spend the last few month wean off of it and as of right now I do a 1 to 5 white to brown ratio . for every one cup of cook rice , 4\/5 of it be brown medium grain and the remain 1\/5 be white . for this type of mixture I recommend use the brown rice setting . fill the water accord to the tick mark in the cooker pot . for medium grain , I fill it until the desire tick mark be submerge . -lrb- basically for 1 cup of rice , I fill the cooker just a hare over the 1 cup water mark . -rrb- for those who grow up on white rice , I strongly recommend wean yourself off of it by do a brown\/white mixture . increase the brown rice every 4 serving or so . this be the perfect machine to do it with . the rice cook perfect every single time once you get the water level right . -lrb- for I it take two mixed rice batch . -rrb- my biggest complaint use to be that brown rice taste awful compare to white rice . it take buy this rice cooker for I to realize that 90 % of the bad taste be because of how the brown rice be cook ! 10 % be still get use to the texture but get over 10 % be no big deal compare to the 90 % improvement in taste . do not bother look at other rice cooker . I look at 5 other rice cooker of similar spec -lrb- Sanyo , Black & Decker , Aroma , Oster , and Panasonic -rrb- and this one be by far worth more in price and quality .