my old , standard , one-button rice cooker seem so primitive compare to this device . I have use it to cook white and brown rice , slow cook , and steam . the rice come out properly cook , and truly taste better than with my older cooker . I presume the other space age rice cooker -lrb- e.g. make by Tiger , Zori -rrb- make great rice as well , but I have never compare . two bowl be provide ; they be heavy and high quality , and zero rice stick they , make clean up super easy . steam be also a snap -lrb- although everything have to fit in the unit , so size might be a limitation -rrb- . for some reason , on two occasion , the rice cooker malfunction -- do not heat up to temperature and rice stay uncooked . the past few time it have work fine . so , the verdict be still out if this be as reliable as the trusty one-button cooker .