Little things about this rice cooker are just dumb.

1) There is no easy way to pick it up (my old one, more than 10 years old, had a handle on top).

2) When you do pick it up to put it away, if you touch the apparatus that holds the spoon, the apparatus and spoon fall off on the floor.

3) There is no retractable cord (my 10-year old rice cooker had one), so you have to hold the cooker awkwardly with one hand and wrap the cord round and round on the underside. When you complete the wraparound, the plug doesn't fit in the space meant for it--you wrapped the cord a little too tight or not tight enough. So you have to start over, eventually give up, and either store the cooker teetering on its plug or double the cord back on itself right before the plug.

4) The lid opens when you press a kind of lever. The lever is not quite large enough to press comfortably, and when you press it, it moves suddenly, your finger slips off, and its ridges hurt.

I've cooked one cup of brown rice in it so far. No problems there, although it did spit some, leaving me wondering how much it will spit if I cook more than one cup at a time.

So now I have to pay for shipping to send it back.
Little things about this rice cooker are just dumb. 1) There is no easy way to pick it up (my old one, more than 10 years old, had a handle on top). 2) When you do pick it up to put it away, if you touch the apparatus that holds the spoon, the apparatus and spoon fall off on the floor. 3) There is no retractable cord (my 10-year old rice cooker had one), so you have to hold the cooker awkwardly with one hand and wrap the cord round and round on the underside. When you complete the wraparound, the plug doesn't fit in the space meant for it--you wrapped the cord a little too tight or not tight enough. So you have to start over, eventually give up, and either store the cooker teetering on its plug or double the cord back on itself right before the plug. 4) The lid opens when you press a kind of lever. The lever is not quite large enough to press comfortably, and when you press it, it moves suddenly, your finger slips off, and its ridges hurt. I've cooked one cup of brown rice in it so far. No problems there, although it did spit some, leaving me wondering how much it will spit if I cook more than one cup at a time. So now I have to pay for shipping to send it back.