I guess that good home cook BROWN rice be a pipe dream ! I have have delicious brown rice in restaraunt , but have yet to find good result with a rice cooker . inevitably the rice come out too hard . I have also try the aroma digital rice cooker with no better result . if all you want be plain white rice , I guess this Black & Decker be as good as any . it be still go into the donation pile today though ; noone in this house except I will eat white rice !