Yamamoto electrical MICHIBA KITCHEN PRODUCT RICE CLEANER Takumiaji-mai Premium White MB-RC23W

The scientific establishment is telling everyone to eat more whole grains. I followed this advice to the letter for several months, but whole grains, including brown rice, always gave me indigestion and heart burn. I also lost weight to the point of being slightly underweight because I was unable to get enough calories as a result of the indigestion.I then switched to eating white rice and gained back the weight that I had lost, but I had trouble falling asleep and never experienced the same feeling of calmness that I got after eating brown rice.Enter this little marvel of a machine. It takes off layers of bran from whole brown rice you buy in the store. It has 10 different settings so you can choose exactly how much bran you want to remove. It operates using a spinning metal blade, much like a blender except the blade is completely dull. The inside of the machine looks like a metal sieve with larger holes. The action of the spinning blade rubs the rice kernels against each other and the inside of the machine to gradually polish off the bran which falls into the bucket underneath in a fine powder. Through trial-and-error, you can figure out for yourself exactly how much bran to leave on. You can polish up to ~4-5 cups of brown rice at a time and it takes less than 5 minutes.Most of the nutrition is located in the germ and aleurone layers of the bran, so you get most of the nutrition and a bit of extra fiber, with the ease of digestion of white rice. For those who don't like the taste of brown rice, partly-milled rice retains some of the nuttiness, but is much milder-tasting. In addition, you can completely mill away all of the bran to make fresh white rice, and it even has an embryo rice setting that leaves on the germ and aleurone layers.The only downside is that the germ of the rice sometimes breaks off into the bucket below, so when you are done milling, what I do is to pour the bran fraction through a fine kitchen sieve, and this gets rid of the bran, and I just add the germ back into the rest of the rice for cooking afterwards.This machine polishes short grain brown rice very well. I have not tried it yet with long-grain brown rice or other grains, but I bet it would work fairly well for anything at least as large as short grain brown rice, as long as you don't mind breaking some of the longer grains. I don't think quinoa, millet, amaranth or teff would work because they would fall through the holes in the bucket.Lastly, you need a step down transformer for this machine. It uses 300W and runs on Japanese 100V. If you plug it directly into a US electrical socket, you will fry it! I recommend this:http://www.amazon.com/VCT-VT-500J-Japanese-Transformer-Converts/dp/B000PC4JL4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1393787579&sr=8-1&keywords=vt+500jHighly Recommended!

前に使っていたものより（10年以上）音が静かになってて、使いやすく、精米したてのお米はとても美味しいです。ぬか漬けにぬかも利用出来て買って良かったです♪

精米したてを食べれるし、ぬかも取れて一石二鳥。ただ、多めに精米すると、気をつけて容器をあげないとぬかが舞ってしまいます。ぬかを別の袋などに移そうとする際も、ドーナツ型なのでもれやすく、一度ボウルに入れてからうつしています。その辺改良してもらえたら使いやすいのになぁ…音はまぁまぁ大きいものの、短時間なので私は気にはしてません

玄米を少しずつ精米しています。米糠が出ますが、そっちは何も活用せず捨ててます。

なかの網になった部分が洗いにくいお米のおいしさはままです。普段は玄米を食べてるので白米が必要な時に使用してます。音はうるさいと言えばうるさいかも。

精米したてのお米は新鮮で美味しいです。音も許容範囲だと思います。何よりコンパクトで場所を取らないことが選んだ理由です。