I love this appliance! Perfect rice each time. I even cooked  a box of Goya yellow rice and  beans along with Salmon steaks and plantains (my cooker came with a steamer tray). To avoid the rice browning on the bottom I add a teaspoon of Olive oil to the water. Steaming ripe plantains is great and the juices from the steamer tray falling in and  mixing with the rice tastes so good.