Panasonic SR-MS103 5-Cup (Uncooked) Rice Cooker, White

Best in price range
+Has many modes (white/brown/quick/cake/slow cook/sticky/porridge/steam)
+Rice is cooked to perfection
+Slow cooked pulled pork turns out well on slow cooking mode
+Cheapest price range fuzzy logic cooker (except for some shady sixty dollar products)
+Keep warm works well for up to a day (8 hours is the max recommended, but it stays on after that too)
+Very easy to clean
+Is exactly the size it says in the title. 5-cups uncooked, 10-cups cooked. ("Cup" means rice-cooker cup, 180ml)

-Slow cook timer is apparently a *maximum* time. It will automatically stop when it feels like it, typically after about 2 hours, even if you set it for 8.
-Rubber rim stains easily (interior, cosmetic)
-No "extended" keep warm as with some higher end Zojirushi cookers (lower heat for 8 hours, followed by regular keep warm). I'm not sure how much of an effect this has.

Other notes: The previous model,...

Thorough Review of Panasonic MS103
Alright, this is going to be a very straightforward review of the cooking features of the MS103 rice cooker. Based on other amazon reviews (specifically of the previous version, MS102) I bought this rice cooker over others. Each section will have a rating out of 5, with 5/5 being the best and 1/5 being the worst.

Review of the cooking functions:
*Please not all rice functions were made with Calrose rice, not pre-soaked, cleaned and measured properly.
*The brown rice was cooked with the cheapest brown, long-grain at the grocery store.

White Rice
- 3 cups = great.
- 1 cup = great.
5/5

Quick Rice
- 1 cup = horrible. Raw inside, overcooked outside.
- 2 cups = bad. Evenly undercooked.
*Manual warned that Quick Rice might be hard.
1/5

Brown Rice
- 1 cup = good. Evenly cooked, but there was a thin crust at the bottom.
4/5

Sticky Rice
- 1 cup = ok? I wasn't sure how Panasonic...

Excellent results, enthusiastically recommended
It's really excellent so far, with results clearly better than our previous Zorijushi, which was old and used older simpler tech, dying after many years of good use.
I was set to buy another Zorijushi, with its stellar reputation -- but comparable technology would have cost much more.

Seeing how highly praised the previous model Panasonic SR-MS102 was, I braved trying its successor SR-103.

So far half my rice cooking has been with Jasmine rice, and half with Japanese rice.
It's all wonderful.

One reason I bought this cooker was because it had a dedicated brown rice setting, but I haven't gotten around to trying it yet, hope to update this review.
Update: made huge amount of sushi with rice cooked on "sticky rice" setting, came out beautifully. Very glad this cooker has this sticky rice setting!
Still haven't tried brown rice.

My complaints are very minor.

* The release button gets hot to the touch...

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