So, I'm sure there's some super-specialized place on the internet that could answer this question for me, but what I want to know is how many of you ladies have a rice cooker, and what else do you do with it?
 
I just finally got one tonight and made some fantastic, perfectly cooked brown rice.  I've been wanting one forever, because I'm so easily distracted I always wander away from the stove and accidentally let my rice burn.  (Or I put in too much water.)  I know, set a timer, I'm just ADD in the kitchen, I hear the timer, taste the rice, and wander away again, thinking to myself, "I'll go check on it in a minute...".  And it seems like every time it takes  a different amount of time to get to the right consistency, 25 minutes, 30 minutes, 35 minutes... Easier to pony up the thirty bucks for the appliance than to try and change my behavior to become patient enough to deal, you know?  Plus, honestly, the first batch of rice we made was so tasty, it's better than anything we've made on the stove, I don't know why.
 
So, what other things do you make in it?  The instructions came with some recipes, but they seem mostly geared towards people using rice cookers in dorms or other places that don't have stoves or ovens, because why else would you use their super time-consuming recipe to make an omelette in it?
 
If it matters, it's a "fuzzy logic" rice cooker as opposed to the old school kind.  And it has the steamer basket thingy for the top.
 
I'm so excited because I love brown rice and it's so tasty but I avoid making it (Manfriend usually does the honors) because it's a pain.  Tonight we had brown rice with steamed broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots (from the cool steamer basket!) but there must be a million other things you could do.