We have found that it needs longer cooking than it says on the packet to turn it from grit into something more like cooked brown rice with added little spirals. I like it added to things, but DH will eat it instead of rice. DS not so enthused, as it falls through the prongs of the fork that he is now using. Adding stock to the water when you cook it helps. My preferred way to eat it is as flour in the gluten free carrot cake from the hippy trippy biodynamic health food shop, that fortunatly I can't get to very often....