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Fuzzy logic cookers can deal with other kinds of rice and grains.

Fuzzy logic rice cookers do not burn the bottom and leave a little bit in the middle not quite cooked. This may not be an issue with all cheap rice cookers, but the ones I owned before the Zojirushi left something to be desired even with plain old white rice.

Nice rice cookers have a warming mode that keeps the rice at a nice serving temperature for as long as you need it.

I'm not saying a cheap rice cooker isn't an upgrade over a pot with a lid on the stove...it is. But, a nice fuzzy logic cooker (of which I have only ever used Zojirushi) is better still.

My Zojirushi works fine after more than a decade of use (probably more like 15 years, as it's followed me through multiple houses). I guess it seems pricey compared to a $20 cheap cooker, but amortized over many years of great nearly fully automated rice, I think it's a bargain.




> Fuzzy logic cookers can deal with other kinds of rice and grains.

Like what? That actually seems interesting. Although other kind of grains are usually not that complicated to cook (but I always want my rice perfect).

Now that I think about it, it looks like you can't steam food while you cook rice in this fuzzy logic cookers. I often steam fish, vegetables or even sausages on top of the rice.

> Nice rice cookers have a warming mode that keeps the rice at a nice serving temperature for as long as you need it.

I've never seen a rice cooker without that.

> Fuzzy logic rice cookers do not burn the bottom and leave a little bit in the middle not quite cooked

Never happened to me, a friend had an old rice cooker that did also. But I'm wondering if it's because he scrapped the bottom of it.

> a nice fuzzy logic cooker (of which I have only ever used Zojirushi) is better still

I'm not saying it's not an upgrade (although if you can't steam food at the same time...) but rather that for the price, it's not worth it. The upgrade is negligible.

> My Zojirushi works fine after more than a decade of use

Crazily, cheap rice cookers last forever as well. And these are a real bargain ;)


Maybe the cheap ones have improved since I last used one. I owned about three cheap ones over a span of about eight years before getting the Zojirushi. Two failed, and one I gave away when I got the Zojirushi. In my experience, the quality was just very different.

I used to steam and cook rice on the same pot, but didn't really like the flavors dripping down (broccoli juice is kinda bitter and weird in rice or pasta) so I stopped doing it. But I guess it's a good feature if you like that sort of thing, and it's true the Zojirushi doesn't work for that. It just makes rice and grains (oats, porridge, etc.) really well, consistently.


Put the ingredients in alluminium! Like that no dripping.




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