How to choose a rice cooker
January 19, 2010 in Cooking
Rice cookers
There are many different brands, sizes and prices of rice cookers on the market today. So if you have taken the decision to start eating more rice as part of your diet then you may well be considering purchasing a rice cooker or steamer. Therefore there are a few different questions that you will need to ask yourself to make sure that you buy a model that will meet your requirements.
Firstly you will want to consider just how much rice you will need to prepare at once. For example if you live alone then a 5.5 cup cooker will easily satisfy your needs. This will even allow you to prepare extra rice that you could freeze for future use. Frozen rice is excellent as it can be cooked in minutes by using a microwave.
You will also want to know what your price ceiling that you are will into spend will be. If you do not want to go over $50 for example then it may be difficult or impossible to find a top line model like the Zojirushi NS-ZCC10. This is a Japanese rice cooker (read more about them below) that is currently selling well in the United States due to its quality.
Japanese rice cookers
There are a few different reasons why Japanese rice cookers are at the top of the heap when it comes to kitchen appliances that are designed especially to cook your rice. Two important factors are that the Japanese have been eating rice for centuries so are experts in knowing how it should be cooked. Since the Second World War, Japan has emerged as an electronics powerhouse manufacturing some of the best consumer electronics in the world today. By combining these two factors we can see that for rice cooking connoisseurs, an appliance built in the Far East may be the most appropriate option.
