I love my Zojirushi rice cooker ! I do not mind cooking white rice on the stove or quick oatmeal in the microwave , but I really prefer brown rice and steel-cut oatmeal . the problem be , by the time my wife or I get home to start dinner , it be too late to start on brown rice . it be the same at breakfast - there just be not enough time to cook steel-cut oatmeal on weekday , so I only have it on weekend . I be not willing to pay $ 100 for a rice cooker , but when I read that it could cook oatmeal as well as brown rice , and it could do it on a timer , and that it could keep rice warm for several hour , I be willing to give it a shot . if you follow the direction -lrb- rinse you rice ! -rrb- , it really do all of those thing . Rice come out great every time -lrb- I have try several variety of brown rice -rrb- , and so do steel-cut oatmeal -lrb- I use McCann 's -rrb- . Rice will stay warm for many hour . clean up be a total breeze , particularly if you do it as soon as the bowl cool . since I buy it , I have discover that my 1 and 1\/2 year-old love brown rice and oatmeal , so I have start set the timer every night so that there be fresh oatmeal wait for we when we get up . I have use it every day for about four month , and I do not have a single complaint . if you can cough up the $ 100 + , I would highly recommend this rice cooker . Update : I have now be use the rice cooker for over five year , and it be still go strong , and it still look like new . this be a classic case of `` you get what you pay for '' - this turn out to be a bargain , despite the high price .