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Excellent Rice Cooker

Excellent rice cooker. So far, I’ve used it for white and brown rice with and without the automatic timer and it works great. I’ll use it for shushi next week. With the automatic timer feature you set up the machine and then tell the rice cooker the time of day when you want your rice to be ready. After that time it switches automatically into ‘keep warm’ mode so your rice is ready to eat in case you’re delayed. This is one of the main reasons I bought this specific model.

A few things to note so you can make a more informed purchase.

1- Cup size is different. I guess a japanese cup is different than those used in the US. Therefore, 10 cups in this case actually translates to 7.5 US-sized cups of rice.

2- Cooking time is longer than ‘normal’. I included the estimates for some types of rice straight from the manual. The zojirushi website also has estimates.
a- Quick cooking (only white rice): 35-45 min
b- White Rice: 51-60 min
c- Sushi rice: 47-58 mn
d- Brown rice: 82-108

3- The minimum amount of rice you can make with the 10 cup model is 1 cup except for sweet, mixed, and brown rice where the minimum is 2 cups. Mixed rice is one where you ad a few other ingredients that will cook together with the rice 9eg. soup stock, soy sauce). For the 5 cup the minimum you can make is 1 cup for all types of rice except porridge where you can make 0.5 cups. Again, these are the smaller cup sizes.

4- For those with small kitchens, the 10 cup machine has the following dims (WxDxH in inches): 11×14.2×9.4. The 5 cup is 10×13x8.1

Enjoy perfect rice every time. Spend your time preparing other parts of your meal.

Update (9/4/2010): I also found some auctions for this item here.

The featured review for this product, Zojirushi NS-ZCC18 10-Cup Neuro Fuzzy Rice Cooker and Warmer, Premium White Kitchen Apr 15, 2005, was written by Marco V. Gutierrez.

The average rating for this item is 5 out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.