any one help im looking towards this one http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00007J5U8/ref%3Dpd%5Fsl%5Faw%5Falx-jeb-2-1%5Fkitchen%5F2108020%5F2/104-9138905-5048730

Damn, rice cookers sure are advanced these days. I still cook my rice in a covered pot. ($4 at the super market)

Yah but i got to lazy to stand there wait stare stir wait stand stir omg its burning noooo stir stir stir oh no!!!! stir.

So I thought I would let the machine take the responsibility

any one help im looking towards this one http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00007J5U8/ref%3Dpd%5Fsl%5Faw%5Falx-jeb-2-1%5Fkitchen%5F2108020%5F2/104-9138905-5048730Why would you pay over $100 for a rice cooker? This one works just as good. And you shouldn't open the pot and stir rice when cooking, just let it cook for 20 minutes and voila. Opening the pot and stirring messes it up.

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Actually, even the simplest models would be sufficient. The biggest advantage of the rice cooker is that you can "set it and forget it." If you're juggling a few different courses at the same time, then it's really nice not to have to even think about the rice :)

If all you are doing is cooking rice, then that machine is too "over the top". That is for people that likes to make congee as well as normal 'steamed' rice, or like the timer function because they live a very busy lifestyle. Like rabinabo said, a simple one button rice cooker is sufficient.

Here you go, top of the line..

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Maybe I'm just old-school, or maybe just unenlightened, but to me, if you have too busy of a lifestyle to set the timer for 20 minutes, hear it beep, and turn off the flame, then you are too doggone busy. Rice is pretty hard to mess up (as long as you don't open the pot!).

Then again, in my job, I'm used to juggling 10 things at once. :p

Doc, your occupation is a clown? Wow, i didnt know that :D

Maybe I'm just old-school, or maybe just unenlightened, but to me, if you have too busy of a lifestyle to set the timer for 20 minutes, hear it beep, and turn off the flame, then you are too doggone busy. Rice is pretty hard to mess up (as long as you don't open the pot!).

Then again, in my job, I'm used to juggling 10 things at once. :p
I'm like you Doc, I cook rice the old fashioned way and it never fails. But then again, I started cooking rice when I was 10. :D

abbid scores again!!!

Even if I wanted to blow alot of money on a rice cooker, I don't think it would be the one called "neuro fuzzy". Bleh.
:eek:

I agree with Doc on the whole KISS principle. However, if you have to have a Zojirushi, forget about all the bells and whistles and get a basic model like this one:

Zojirushi 6 Cup Rice Cooker (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000CDHM5/qid=1101615295/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/103-4019136-7019039?v=glance&s=kitchen)

I bought one of these for a buddy of mine five years ago and he's been using it without a problem all this time.

All rice cookers pale in comparison to this one. (http://www.dreamkitty.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=K-EM166001&Category_Code=BUDE)

Anyway, the Zojirushi ones are supposed to be pretty good I think. :D

whoo whoo, that Hello Kitty cooker is da BOMB!

All rice cookers pale in comparison to this one. (http://www.dreamkitty.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=K-EM166001&Category_Code=BUDE)

Anyway, the Zojirushi ones are supposed to be pretty good I think. :D
Hell, if I had seen that five years ago, I would have bought that for my buddy instead. :p

This review from Amazon sounds quite convincing :P

"Sure some people ask me why I bought it when you can make rice in a pot on the stove? Well I ask those people,why do you have a microwave, or even a stove? You could just go out in your backyard and set up a bonfire, set up your pots and pans and go at it each night. Sounds extreme, I know, but that's what you're doing if you don't own this rice cooker. It makes my world a better place."

The Zojirushis are really good. I've had a Hitachi, too that worked well for years. They cook way more reliably than a pot on the stove, the rice keeps for a while and most are great steamers. Don't get one too big, though. The supersize ones don't do small quantities well.

Some of the best rice comes from a dedicated rice cooker and it also keeps rice nice and hot for a really long time. No conventional pot and stove can do that automatically. Just my $0.02.

Damn you Abbid. You got to it before me. So it has the same motor as a Honda. Same cubic feet as the Civic engine. How cute :D

You guys are sooooooo Jetsons.

I guess you are going to tell me I should upgrade my black and white TV too. :rolleyes: :D

"Sure some people ask me why I bought it when you can make rice in a pot on the stove? Well I ask those people,why do you have a microwave, or even a stove? You could just go out in your backyard and set up a bonfire, set up your pots and pans and go at it each night. Sounds extreme, I know, but that's what you're doing if you don't own this rice cooker. It makes my world a better place."

Thats funny stuff.
"Sure I could put it in a covered pot and turn the stove on, but this is the new millenium!! I am going to put it in a covered pot with its own heat source, thats the future! ;)"

to be fair, I don't know much about rice cookers, maybe they are faster :confused:

Rice cookers are no faster, they just keep the rice much longer & you're not going to burn it if you forget it. Tell any oriental family to cook their rice in a pot on a stove and they'll whack you in the head with pot then click on the rice-cooker. If you do rice routinely, you oughta have one. If it's a rarity or you do Uncle Ben's (aack), stick with the pot.
And, Doc, stick to the b/w TV. Color's one of those "progressive" things; you wouldn't like it. ;)

And, Doc, stick to the b/w TV. Color's one of those "progressive" things; you wouldn't like it. ;)
"When I was a kid we didn't have any Nin-ten-do! We played with the bark off a tree - -and we liked it!" - Dana Carvey

My mom has that same rice cooker. She bought it from the korean store awhile ago. It works really well, and makes the rice extra sticky. Plus the keep for the rice is even better too. Definitely get it, but I don't think my mom paid that much for hers. Try and find a local korean store and get it from there instead.

Yeah, my mom has that one too. MY dad still asks "What the hell is that?" when the chime goes off. I thinks it's pretty cool and easy to use if you keep the instruction manual. We only make rice on the soft setting and have no clue on any of the other ones. My mom cooks about 3 cups of rice a day so I don't know about it's ability to warm it for more than a day, but I'm sure it's better at keeping it warm than a cheaper one. My cheapy one goes crispy after about 2 hours.

For some reason this thread intrigues me. :D

You can get a decent one from target for about $20. My ex-roomate thought that he was vietnamese. His entire diet was pretty much vietnamese, so was his girlfriend. That stinking rice cooker was going every day, it made our apartment smell interesting. Did I mention that he spoke it fluently too? Crazy white boy. :D

My mother has the Zojirushi NS-ZAC18 and loves it. It even sounds off a jingle when the rice is done.

I wonder if they have a rice cooker forum out there. Now, the important thing is does this rice cooker cook rice consistently? Most rice cookers tend to overcook the rice at the bottom, making it either drier or harder than the rest. Would this one prevent that?

My ultimate rice cooker would have reservoirs for rice and water. All you need is to set the number of cups you want and it will discharge the rice into the chamber and add the necessary amount of water to create the right amount of softness. It will also have an Ethernet port to connect it to your home network. It has a lightweight web server with SNMP support to allow you to monitor its status so you can generate usage graphs and monitor your rice consumption per day/week/year.

The web server, once you logged in to the rice cooker, should have manual custom settings like cooking length, cooking temperature, warming temperature, and other stuff that you can save on a file. You can exchange this file with your fellow rice cooking enthusiasts online to create different kinds of cooked rice.

Can Zojirushi do that?

For some reason this thread intrigues me. :D

You can get a decent one from target for about $20. My ex-roomate thought that he was vietnamese. His entire diet was pretty much vietnamese, so was his girlfriend. That stinking rice cooker was going every day, it made our apartment smell interesting. Did I mention that he spoke it fluently too? Crazy white boy. :D

jasmine rice leaves a nice scent in the house as well.

I wonder if they have a rice cooker forum out there.
i hear the civic forum is big lol sorry im bad.