this be a great rice cooker ? i have no messy spill like so many people be claim to have ? it look very well construct ? i recoment it if you live in a small house hold . i just cook for my self but its large enough to cook rice for I and my guest without have to make a second batch ? look sylish , perform as advertise , good price . . what else be important ? I read someone complaint that steam come out of the top of this cooker and they demand that no one else buy it ?? that seem so odd to I -lrb- for lack of a better term -rrb- this be a rice cooker not a crock pot ? if the steam do NOT escape then the excess water would never leave the pot after you rice be cook then you would have rice flavored goop ? so if you never have a rice cooker before and this be you first one then know this , during the last few minute of cook the very tiny hole in the top of the glass will vent the steam from excess water after you rice be full cook .