I give this nifty rice cooker 4 star because its expensive . I eat mostly a asian diet where most dish be serve with rice . after lose the battle to eat or not eat lower nutritional value white rice , I have to buy a brown rice cooker . do you know another benefit of eat brown rice be the extra fiber slow down the absorption of carbohydrate mean you will not experience the blood-sugar drop that send you mind into eat like a pig tomorrow with never come . with that say the Zojirushi 3 cup do a fine job with cooking short grain brown rice . my cheap rice cooker do not have a longer cooking-time setting require to cook brown rice most cheap one do not . I live a speedy lifestyle . if this rice cooker could cook short grain brown rice in 30 minute instead of 1 hour 20 minute , I would of pay twice as much . otherwise , this handy appliance be cute and functional . as long as it do not break . I be sure I 'll get my money worth . I 'll definitely get my money 's worth if I drop ten pound because I switch to brown rice : - p