Macook Rice Cooker with Rice Steamer (5 Cups, 1Litres), Rice Cooker Small, High-Temperature Protection Mini Rice Cooker- For 1-4 People - Cooking 15-20 Minutes - Non-Stick Coating for Cooker Rice

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The Cuisinart 4-Cup Rice Cooker had the biggest capacity of any mini rice cooker we tested, but it fell short on execution. Technical features, such as the warmer or timer, make an already convenient machine even more user-friendly.

This model is similar to the Toshiba in functionality, but testers found that rice on standard settings skewed a little too soft for their liking, and overall ranked it lower than the more affordable Tiger JBV-A10U. We cooked two uncooked cups of Nishiki Japanese medium-grain white rice in each model; in those that performed well enough, we then cooked two cups of short-grain brown rice, followed by two cups of long-grain basmati rice. Single-purpose rice cookers should come with instructions for cooking different rice types and usually include a measuring cup for the rice and water as well as a rice paddle. Speed: A rice cooker can be a lifesaver when you’re scrambling to get dinner on the table after work.Having a rice cooker means you can make a bowl of sushi rice on even the busiest nights, or prep for an entire week of grain bowls and fried rice by cooking a big batch on Sundays. It comes with a similarly sturdy cooking pot and has an intuitive, easy-to-use digital interface with a Keep Warm function and preprogramming options. Finally, though perhaps not the most imperative to the rice itself, Zojirushi’s machines play music when you start them (an adaptation of “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”) and when they’re done cooking — and it’s clearly delightful enough that everyone who recommended the brand (again, more on the rest of those folks below) made mention of the jingles. Our timers regularly recorded shorter cook times than what the display indicated, usually by a few minutes.

Test 1 – sushi rice: We cooked 3 Japanese-rice-cooker cups of medium-grain Nishiki-brand rice, one of the most popular and widely available brands of sushi rice in North America.

The Zojirushi Induction Heating System Rice Cooker and Warmer NP-HCC10 has an added setting for jasmine rice and an easier-to-read display. If the Instant Pot Duo is already your air fryer and slow cooker, why shouldn’t it be your rice cooker? The results were a little too firm when we used the machine’s measurements of water and rice, but they came out a little mushy, with quite a few burst and exploded hulls, when we used the 1:1.