I love this rice cooker ! I make a lot of rice - usually white , brown , and mixed . I could never get the brown & mixed grain rice cook right in my old-style rice cooker . it be turn out perfectly every single time in the Sanyo ! this cooker be very easy to use and the instruction that come with it be clear . the machine come with two inner pot and two inner lid - one for rice & another for everything else . the rice pot be heavier than the everything-else pot . both cook just fine . I have steam lot of veggy use the steamer basket . I even make the bread pudding recipe from the manual a couple of time -lrb- with the addition of brandy-soaked raisin -rrb- . the Sanyo cook rice so perfectly that I 'll happily overlook the two minor negative I have encounter . 1 -rrb- the interior pot be not non-stick . Rice do not stick to the rice pot . -lrb- I usually add a tiny bit of oil to the water . -rrb- but , thing really stick to the everything-else pot . 2 -rrb- the steamer insert be plastic & have acquire a faint orange tint from cooking carrot . that be probably the nature of the plastic . in my book these be really minor negative . I would buy this product again .