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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Cheap – but also good value – small and straightforward to use, this is ideal for single- or two-person households, students and holiday homes. microcomputerized), it will tweak temperatures and cooking times according to feedback from the machine’s sensors. It has a removable inner lid, which allows you to wash from every crevice the starchy film that accumulates during cooking.

With the brand's recommended measurements, testers found this rice cooker skewed the softest and mushiest out of all the machines tested.Speed: A rice cooker can be a lifesaver when you’re scrambling to get dinner on the table after work.

We were excited to test the Tiger JBV-A10U because it’s one of the cheapest cookers that still offer fuzzy-logic controls. It cooked faster than any other rice cooker we tested and made excellent rice across the board, but we didn’t find the rice any better than what we made with our upgrade pick. We consulted Matt Slem, food technician at rice producer Lundberg Family Farms, on the proper cooking method for various grain types.

But like the Cuckoo below, it only gives you the remaining cooking time when the rice is about 10 minutes from finishing—and, more importantly, it couldn’t match the texture of the rice made in the Zojirushi Induction Rice Cooker.

Models that performed well in rice flavor, texture, and cooking speed we then also tested with brown and basmati rice, and again with sushi rice on their quick-cook setting. Every rice cooker comes with a couple of key accessories: a measuring cup (don’t get confused, “1 cup” in rice cooker parlance is actually a ¾-cup measure) and a rice paddle. Anything smaller than that is nice for dorm rooms or people who live alone but isn’t as useful for most people.

It’s a deceptively easy task: Measure, rinse, add water, simmer, steam, and less than a half an hour later, you’re done. Many traditional preparations for long-grain rice, such as Persian tahdig , use a combination of boiling followed by steaming, as opposed to an absorption method where all the water cooks into the grain (which is what happens in most rice cookers).

It comes with a thickened aluminum inner pot and can also prevent the rice from sticking to the bottom of the pan! The downfall of all the Zojirushi cookers we tested is their slowness, and the Neuro Fuzzy is no exception. Our brown rice was chewy and firm in a way that some of us really enjoyed, but a couple of tasters in our 2020 tests found it too al dente. It’s a particular pleasure on this Zojirushi because of the automatic Keep Warm setting that kept rice right at serving temperature for hours. The Panasonic is another simple model, the one that food photographer Neal Santos has also used for a decade — both personally and at his Philly-based Filipino pop-up, Lalo (which unfortunately closed due to the pandemic).

The difference of 10 or 20 minutes between an okay batch of rice and an amazing one isn’t too significant for people who care about great rice, especially if you start your rice at the beginning of cooking dinner or use the timer function. You can see how this Cuckoo compares with both the Instant Pot and other rice-specific pressure cookers in the Competition section . Most impressive of all were the cooking times – the Gastroback Design Rice Cooker is a very quick machine. In contrast, our upgrade pick from Cuckoo only comes in a 10-cup version, which takes up too much counter space for people making rice for just one or two people.