The rice cooker portion of this machine is great. The steamer is okay. The keep warm feature in all modes is also wonderful - whatever you prepare is ready when you need it to be.However, the slow cooker is VERY UNDERPOWERED. It takes twice as long as any slow cooker recipe. There is no high setting option, and it is just too slow. We have started putting it on steam cook for 20-30 minutes to build up some heat in the machine, then setting it to slow cook for hours. This helps a little.