Maxi-Matic DRC-1000B Elite Platinum 10-Cup Stainless Rice Cooker, Black

Comment: I owned this rice cooker for less then 4 hrs. brought it home. got excited. On the first use, it started smoking. i unplugged it. I had to throw the rice away. the smoking was a burnt electrical smell. I am not a fan of Elite anymore i will not buy anything they make. I bought a single burner that i was going to use and put in a smoker. that lovely think gave out electrical smoke too. i wish that i could say i loved it because i was excited to use it. Roll the dice on this product, you may get a good one.

Comment: This is a very simple, straight forward rice maker. It has worked reasonably well for me. I generally make several cups of rice at a time and just save leftovers for later since it burnt the rice when I made a small amount. I have also started using more water than it recommends and the results are perfect. I'll admit I could never get rice to turn out making it on a stove (I probably would mess with it too much during cooking) so this has been great.
It requires a little cleaning after use but its pretty minor, the non-stick pot is a breeze to clean and wet cloth over the rest seems to keep it looking nice. I have not had any trouble with it spewing starch all over like others say. It obviously steams like every other rice maker so I put it out on the counter where it won't be blowing it right into a confined space but other than that its straight forward.
Overall it works fine especially for the reasonable price when I purchased it.

Comment: This rice cooker did not work as expected - it has a small catch basin for the smoodgy steamy stuff that boils off the rice, and instead, all of this went all over my kitchen counter and didn't go into the little catch basin at all. I was not happy and sent it back. I tried many different itterations to stop this from happening and none of it worked (rinsing the rice, using bottled water, using oil)