this be actually a 7 cup rice cooker , the sorry excuse in the manual try to explain , that it be 7 cup of uncooked rice which be equal to 16 cup of cook rice . but feel mislead give that you can pick up a 7 cup rice cooker for much less . have say that the cooker do what it be suppose to , the non stick coat work beautifully , and I like the fact that you can take out the lid and wash it rather than try to clean with wet paper towel when the lid be attach like in some other cooker -lrb- that just yuck !! imagine how much bacterium end up infest all that warm starch -rrb- , another problem I have be the rubber bush for the vent be miss , not a major problem but something which should be note .