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Question: How well does it cook brown rice?  What is the minunum amount of rice to cook with this unit?
Document: It works great an as described... I like the aspect of setting it an forgetting it as i do happen to forget the time once in a while. The reason for four stars is that it does scorce brown rice, very lil but it does...but compared to what happed to pot cooked rice ill take a small amount of scorching
I don't have a stove, so I replaced my old rice cooker with this model. It's great for steaming, slow cooking, and stewing. For example, if you need to bring something to a boil and then cook for X minutes, use the Smart Steam feature that starts timing when your water comes to a boil.
We have barely had this rice cooker 6 months and use it about 3-4 times a month. At first, it was wonderful. It cooked perfectly but now it barely cooks the rice. I end up putting setting it several times just to cook 2 cups of rice. The water doesn't cook out and when it finally does, the rice is still crunchy. I thought I was putting in too little or too much water, but I follow the lines and the directions and it still happens.
I dont cook. Period. I bought this thing so I can be lazy. Needless to say it cooked perfectly! So far is has been white rice and I did the whole finger notch extra of water.Things to note.The steamer tray is plastic.You can only set the soak timer in hours. 1 - 15 hours.I prewashed my rice and let it soak for 1 hour in the rice cooker.Thats all I can say. I dont know how to cook. lol
I love this machine! Rice comes out great. Even brown rice. Next I want to try making some Spanish rice.
but it cooked brown rice great yesterday when I got it, oh and it also cooked pinto beans (I pre-soaked them the day before) perfectly also. Aroma has a recipe (hundreds actually) for pinto beans on it's website. [...]
Terrific unit! Produces really fluffy rice cooked exactly right, much better than our older 30 dollar cheapo. We were originally going to go with a big-name (starts with a Z) Japanese rice maker, but I'm very glad we decided on this one: all the same features at less than 1/2 the price!
As we were putting it in the cart I noticed this aroma.. hmm.. half the price! At one time I had tried a fuzzy logic Zo and hated it so I had went back to on/off make the rice. It worked for me. However, this rice maker says it makes rice, brown rice, steams, and has a 15 hour delay! It also sautes. My goodness!
The manual is very helpful in figuring out how to use the buttons and different settings, although the aroma is not hard to use.It steams, sautes and cooks, makes white rice, brown rice, and meals. I feel guilty, having been happily using the Zo for years, but I got a lot of bang for my half the bucks in this versatile and easy to use, easy to clean rice maker.
I was so excited to finally get a rice cooker, but I can't seem to get the proportions right. We use brown rice and the brown rice setting just turns it to mush and then burns it, but even the white rice setting toasts on the bottom. If I could go back, I wouldn't have bought it. It's easy to clean and I gave it two stars because it does great with steel cut oats on the white rice setting.
Answer: Brown rice cooks really well.  And you measure it the same as white rice which makes it very easy.  The smallest amount you can do is 2 cups.