Finally got my zoji ordered

[Anonymous No.15523145]

The zojirushi i've been wanting finally came down to a decent price, it's been at $290-320 for the last few weeks.

[Anonymous No.15523155]

>>15523145

I don't know if its a decent price for that model, but I've had my Zoji for over 10 years and it still works perfectly; you bought a good brand.

[Anonymous No.15523258]

>>15523145
>Zojirushi
Based
I have pic related arriving today. Been using a ten cup induction/pressure rice cooker and 2 pound bread machine from these guys for over ten years. Water boiler and coffee pot, too. Zoji shit lasts forever and is top tier in every category.

[Anonymous No.15523285]

>>15523145
Been looking at these but don't really know what the benefit of the induction model is

[Anonymous No.15523314]

>>15523285
Induction matters more on higher capacity models, 5 cups and above. The top rice will tend to be more dry and less evenly cooked in large format models with traditional heating elements. 3 cup cookers don't really benefit from induction.

[Anonymous No.15523589]

>>15523155
It's the cheapest it's been in a month.

Besides a dip to $230 on black Friday. It's been ~$280 for the last 6 months besides a few sales at $250-260.

So $255 is a good price. Not the BEST, but still a good price.

[Anonymous No.15523678]

>>15523145
Good for you OP. My neighbor still uses his Zoji every that he bought for his Mrs as a housewarming gift for their first house. Eats rice almost every meal

>neighbor is Japanese guy in mid 80s, originally from nagoya
>got his Zoj in early 1980s

[Anonymous No.15523724]

>>15523678
Yup, I had been using a zojirushi from the early 90s. That one broke last year and I got a cheap $20 one off Amazon and got tired of not having a good rice cooker anymore, so at Christmas I decided I'd keep an eye on this particular model and buy it if it goes under $260.

Can't wait to be making good rice again

[Anonymous No.15523737]

My brother got me a 600 dollar gaba one ten years ago. It sings.

[Anonymous No.15523739]

I own one of these bastards and they are fucking amazing. They even SING!

[Anonymous No.15523753]

>>15523737
>It sings.
>13:41:27
>>15523739
>They even SING!
>13:41:44

[Anonymous No.15523770]

Nigga it's a rice cooker. A 30$ one works just as good.

[Anonymous No.15523773]

I have a tiger and it’s pretty good. It’s very basic but it’s been going strong for a decade.

[Anonymous No.15523810]

>>15523770
If you're white maybe.

[Anonymous No.15524479]

>>15523145
>$255
I got mine for $20 and have had it for years. Quit overpaying for simple appliances

[Anonymous No.15524556]

>>15524479
The fact you think a $20 rice cooker is in any way comparable to a $250+ rice cooker really says it all.

Good bait made me reply

[Anonymous No.15524568]

>>15523145
I fail to see what the possible benefit of such an exorbitant rice cooker would be. Then again, I also live alone and don't cook in huge batches, never more than one or two cups at a time. My Comfee is more than enough for that.

[Anonymous No.15524608]

>>15524479
HUUUUGE difference between a 20 bucks cooker and a 200 one. In terms of ease of use and features it's top tier.

For example i have two cups of basmati set for tomorrow morning. When i'm going to scoop some up it will be just as soft and fluffy as it was inteded to be. After that i can store this rice for the rest of the day and it's still almost as great.

[Anonymous No.15524614]

>>15524556
I bet you I can make rice in a pot just as good as that rice cooker and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference you absolute cooklet

[Anonymous No.15524630]

>>15524568
Its only the mid-high-end one. The highest end model in the US is $405 currently.
And in Japan they have $700+ models.

Same 5.5cup size, just more advanced cooking methods.

There are 4 rough "levels" for good rice cookers

Micom/fuzzy logic with locking lids, starts around $80 and goes to $200

Micom/fuzzy logic + induction heating (IH), starts around $200 to $400 depending on model and brands

Micom/fuzzy logic + IH + Pressure, same as the previous, but can lock and lower the internal pressure, starts around $400 can go up to $700.

And finally the newest type that uses all of the above but has more advanced induction heating elements and a heavy iron bowl to more closely mimic traditional rice cooking methods over an open flame. These are only sold in Asia currently and generally start at around $700.

[Anonymous No.15524642]

>>15524614
I know for a fact you can't. I can tell the difference between two species of short grain rice, you're not gonna fool me when you bust out your shitty rice that's half overcooked and half undercooked with clumps.

[Anonymous No.15524646]

>>15524630
Yeah but what's the practical difference?

[Anonymous No.15524652]

>>15524642
Yes, stay steadfast to protect your ego because you spent hundreds of dollars for something I can make just as good in a pot. It's ok to admit you're dog shit at cooking white boy

[Anonymous No.15524656]

if the more expensive ones could make risotto automatically that'd be kinda cool but i can't see any difference in the quality of rice being worth that much money

[Anonymous No.15524662]

>>15524646
Depends how often you eat rice. For daily rice eaters you'll be much more sensitive to the better rice cookers. More even cooking, brings out better flavor, etc.

If you don't eat rice that much then there isn't any real reason to go beyond the first "level", standard Micom/fuzzy logic rice cookers.

[Anonymous No.15524663]

>>15524614
Yeah, nah.
Not even that anon.
But there’s zero possibility anything you make on your stove comes close to even the “shittiest” (i.e. quick setting) rice my cooker can produce.
Your thinking otherwise shows you’ve probably never had genuinely *good* rice. >>15524568

[Anonymous No.15524673]

>>15524663
I was born in Japan and lived there for 20 years before moving.

I guarantee you I've had better rice than anything you've ever tried and made more of it in my current life time than you will in your entire life.

[Anonymous No.15524681]

>>15524652
>white boy
Lol faggot I know you aren’t trying to imply your Asian.
Because even a rural Chinese peasant sitting in a dirt-floor shack would point at his rice maker powered by a salvaged car battery hooked up to a half-broken solar panel and laugh at what a poor piece of shit you must be

[Anonymous No.15524686]

>>15524662
Fair point, I suppose that's true for a lot of things. I only use it once every week or two and rarely eat rice as its own dish so I'm hardly a rice expert. This is my lad and he does Good Enough(tm) work for me.

[Anonymous No.15524693]

>>15524652
Says the white boy claiming he can make perfect rice on the stove top everytime.

Considering the humidity, temp, altitude, rice breed, and harvest time (new crop, vs standard), etc can all effect how the rice needs to be cooked. I simply don't believe you're that good, a rice cooker that monitors temp/moisture/time and can be told what kind of rice it's cooking (GABA, long grain, short grain, etc) is going to churn out perfect rice every time no matter what the ambient humidity is or altitude you're at.

[Anonymous No.15524696]

>>15523145
You can make rice cooker pancakes now

[Anonymous No.15524701]

>>15524673
君の日本語レベルを証明してください

[Anonymous No.15524716]

>>15524673
I doubt that, I don't know a single Japanese person that doesn't own a rice cooker. Same with Vietnamese, Korean, Indonesian, Filipino, and Chinese people I know.

The only time I've seen an Asian NOT own a rice cooker is because they're too poor to buy one.

The only nips that don't use rice cookers are the autistic ones trying to preserve traditional Japanese cooking methods.

[Anonymous No.15524729]

>>15524696
recipe?

[Anonymous No.15524730]

>>15524673
>born/raised in Japan
>rice makers are a waste of money and I make it better on a stovetop
Zero possibility you’re Japanese.

[Anonymous No.15524750]

>>15524729
4oz Ligma
6oz Sugma
1 cup Updog

Mix well to combine and put in the rice cooker on high for 1hr

[Anonymous No.15524764]

>>15524750

[Anonymous No.15524790]

>>15524642
>>15524663
>>15524693
Why do rice cooker threads always bring out the biggest autists?

[Anonymous No.15524801]

>>15524696
have tried these before but they're way too much for me, they're basically an actual cake
also they handle chocolate chips etc like shit

[Anonymous No.15524810]

>>15524729

It's just regular pancake batter poured in a rice cooker.

[Anonymous No.15524812]

>>15524790
Says the retard thinking he can make perfect rice on the fucking stove top.

Yeah, clearly that'll beat out decades of technological innovation from autistic Asians trying to perfect rice.

[Anonymous No.15524833]

>>15523145
>rice cooker
Rice is a nutritionally devoid food item. Rice is literally filler.

[Anonymous No.15524943]

>>15524812
LOL not that guy and never claimed that. But you keep fighting that fight buddy. I'm sure your attention to detail about how each breed of rice is cooked at what humidity really impresses at parties.

[Anonymous No.15524950]

>>15524943
The point is I don't need to know or give a single fuck about the rice when I have a rice cooker.

He said hed make better rice on the stove top than I could in my rice cooker.

Its pure bullshit.

[Anonymous No.15524984]

>>15523145
I bought a used zoji for $30 and its fucking legit. I always cooked it in a pot on the stove and it was ok, but this thing is perfection.
pic related - no frills just perfect

[Anonymous No.15524988]

>>15524984
lmao nigga this is some $15 shit

[Anonymous No.15524995]

>>15524988
Zoji charges like $50 new

[Anonymous No.15525016]

>>15524995
>>15524984
One dumb motherfucker

[Anonymous No.15525024]

I’m the retard who bought an induction heating one because of these threads. They’re pretty neat I guess, but I have noted that I make long grain/basmati in a pot better than the cooker can make. This may probably be because I’ve gotten used to the taste of rice made in a pot.

My inner Jew says I need to eat rice everyday now.

[Anonymous No.15525027]

>>15524995
>basic bitch rice cooker with exactly one button to flick it between cook/warm
>$50
do you own apple products by any chance

[Anonymous No.15525033]

>>15525024
No real point getting a fancy Japanese rice cooker for long grain.

They're made for short and medium grain japonica.

[Anonymous No.15525046]

>>15525027
No. Thats why I bought one used. (which was new anyway) is $30 a lot of money to you?

[Anonymous No.15525052]

>>15525046
You could've got a Chinese one for $15-20.

[Anonymous No.15525078]

>>15524729
Your rice cooker should do this automatically for you, without you needing a recipe at all. Just press the pancake button. If your cooker does not have a pancake button, I feel fucking sorry for you and your inferior fucking rice cooker.

Educate yourself, and you'll soon have a toaster than can bake cake batter, a deepfryer that makes excellent tea and an oven that makes beautiful icecream smoothies.

[Anonymous No.15525096]

>>15525033
Yes, I realize that now. I still tinker with water levels and soak duration but realistically I only use it for short grain rice now.

[Anonymous No.15525183]

>>15525046
No but a 100% markup for a brand is pretty fucking embarrassing

[Anonymous No.15525234]

>>15523145
Imagine buying a $300 rice cooker.
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH

[Anonymous No.15525267]

>>15525096
>I still tinker with water levels and soak duration
assuming the pic in >>15525024 is your rice cooker, have you tried following Zojirushi’s actual instructions on using long grain rice in your machine?

For most of the models, it’s simple.
-disregard bowl markings and use 1 1/4 cup water for every 1 (Japanese) cup of long grain
-cook on the “mixed” setting.

Just look up your model at https://www.zojirushi.com/grains/

[Anonymous No.15525272]

>>15525234
Imagine being smug about eating inferior rice

[Anonymous No.15525283]

>>15525267
Yes, I do follow it. It’s just not to my taste, as I noted earlier.

[Anonymous No.15525319]

>>15525272
???????????????????????????????????????

[Anonymous No.15525446]

>>15523145
These are a meme... but I won't deny they look nice. White rice has absolutely minimal flavor, I don't know what "magical" shit people are shoveling with this cooker.

[Anonymous No.15525480]

>>15523145
LOL inagine needing a $300 gadget to make a product indistinguishable to that of somebody with a little bit of knowhow and theory behind cooking rice and a POT.

LMAO god damn you are fucking losers. Have fun with your $300 crutch because youre too stupid/lazy to figure out how to cook RICE

[Anonymous No.15525494]

>>15525446
Zojirushis are designed for short and medium grain Japanese rice, so anything else turns out pretty meh overall.

For Japanese rice, they're great though.

[Anonymous No.15525540]

>>15525480
LOL Imagine thinking the uncle Ben shit from your stovetop is actually decent because you’ve never experienced actual good rice.

LMAO have fun with your panda-express rice.

[Anonymous No.15525547]

>>15524716
>The only time I've seen an Asian NOT own a rice cooker is because they're too poor to buy one.
That's the right answer.
They're the kind of people who don't pay their electricity bills on time.
Including the Japanese, of course.
>The only nips that don't use rice cookers are the autistic ones trying to preserve traditional Japanese cooking methods.
It's a little different.
They buy both of these products and use them in different ways.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077P24PYR/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002DY3B7K/

[Anonymous No.15525570]

>>15525540
LOL I'M CUM

[Anonymous No.15525594]

>>15525547
>KAMADOSAN
That’s my little Iga-yaki nigga right there.
It *can* make even better rice than my Zoji, but it requires an autistic level of attention and constant adjustments to the flame underneath to do so.
Hence the device above it in your pic.

[Anonymous No.15525618]

its always nice to buy new tech, my man.

buttwo hundred and fifty bucks for a rice cooker, my dude?

is that really justified?

[Anonymous No.15525619]

>>15525547
>>15525594
Cheaper than i'd expect.

[Anonymous No.15525629]

>>15525494
That's only for the Japanese version, there is also a long-grain version available for export.
However, the cheaper models may not have it.
By the way, when I cook long grain rice in the Japanese version, I select brown rice cooking and adjust the amount of water by myself.

[Anonymous No.15525637]

>>15523739
Mine plays twinkle twinkle little star when I set it off. Not sure what the end song is.

[Anonymous No.15525638]

>>15525629
You should look it up for your model.

Here is what the OP rice cooker has for it's recommendations.

[Anonymous No.15525644]

i'm a jap, but why do you whiteys buy these?

[Anonymous No.15525648]

>>15525594
Correction: my bad, that’s not the kamadosan electric unit in the post I replied to.
Pic related is.
The one in >>15525547 is similar, but made for Vermicular pots, which are enamelware. Think Japanese Staub.

[Anonymous No.15525678]

i use this, it seems fine.

[Anonymous No.15525716]

>>15525446
Jasmine rice has a nice flavor, but too much heat ruins it. I don't use a rice cooker though, I soak my rice for half a day and then steam it. I really doubt any rice cooker is going to produce better rice, their advantage is convenience.

[Anonymous No.15525754]

>>15525594
If you have the skill and the experience built up over a long period of time, you should cook with KAMADOSAN.
But Zojirushi's ENBUDAKI automatically produces a result similar to KAMADOSAN.
To my regret, I thought that my favorite Hitachi rice cooker cannot beat ENBUDAKI!

>Hence the device above it in your pic.
>>15525648
KAMADOSAN sells the same kind of product.
But unfortunately, they only have a model up to 3 cups.
If you want to cook well, you have to use half of the capacity.

>>15525619
It is a 3 cup model

[Anonymous No.15525759]

>>15523145
So you paid $255 for a 1 quart rice cooker and warmer in SS? Whats it like having that kind of money to burn?

[Anonymous No.15525764]

>>15523145
>paying this much for a cooklet appliance
you dumb gullible faggot

[Anonymous No.15525813]

>>15525638
Thank you for taking the time to come.

In Japan there are many short grain rice varieties to choose from and each one is different in quality, so I have to adjust to suit myself every time!
For example, in my area only...
If you look for Koshihikari, you will find more than 50 products.
I can't even imagine how many I would find in the whole of Japan!
So the best way is to adjust it to the rice you buy.

[Anonymous No.15525845]

>>15525754
>It is a 3 cup model
Then why does the website cite 1 to 4 cups?

[Anonymous No.15525927]

I like the elephant

[Anonymous No.15525936]

>>15525540
it's just bulk white rice with a bay leaf and a splash of rice vinegar. you autistic ricefag rice cooker using queers are my new most hated 4chan demographic.

>$300 for a ONE QUART device that does exactly the same thing that a POT WITH A LID does

do you even know how to cook rice in a pot? or are you just coping with being incompetent by spending inordinate amounts of money on stupid gimmick products?

[Anonymous No.15525940]

Holy shit my parents have an induction one and its nice but I did not know these were that expensive

[Anonymous No.15525946]

>>15525936
>it's just bulk white rice
No one spending $300 on a rice cooker is using bulk long-grain white rice.

Zojirushi's are specifically designed for short/medium grain japanese breeds.

[Anonymous No.15525948]

>>15525845
>Vermicular RP23A Japanese 5 cup
>Vermicular RP19A Japanese 3 cup

>Then why does the website cite 1 to 4 cups?
1 cup:A guide to maximum performance
4 cup:A guide to the maximum capacity for cooking, although it does not guarantee good taste

It's not very nice.
This fact is not stated by the seller.

[Anonymous No.15525964]

>>15525948
It's the 5cup.

The website says the $670 version is 3.7L capacity, and weighs 15.2lbs.

The amazon listing for the 3-cup version is 11lbs.

And the amazon listing for the 5-cup version is 15.18lbs

So the US $670 version is 5 cups.

[Anonymous No.15526278]

>>15525964
Why is that?
It's cheaper than the price in Japan.

If I'm not mistaken, it's about $100 cheaper than the price in Japan!
Maybe they are selling it at a lower price because it was unsold in Japan, lol.

In the first place, 1 cup in Japan is 180ml (6oz), so it's very likely that the label is wrong.

[Anonymous No.15526293]

>>15525494
I don't know what propaganda Zojirushi is cooking up these days, but this is wrong. I challenge anyone to do a blind taste test vs a traditional pot cook. The only "difference" is that the cooker will soak the rice for you. It's all about convenience. I'm saying this as someone who owns a Zojirushi and cooks Japanese cuisine as a hobby.

[Anonymous No.15526308]

>>15523145
255.00 for a rice cooker? What are you doing with your life?

[Anonymous No.15526455]

>>15525946
And why cant they be cooked in a pot? Dont you want to learn the nuanced differences in cooking method between various rices through trial and error thus becoming a better cook??

Fuck, man.

[Anonymous No.15526708]

>>15526455
No, it's rice. I want a machine that does it prefectly with zero thought or input from me.

[Anonymous No.15526965]

>>15526455
I make my own bread and pasta by trial and error, but I leave the rice to the rice cooker.


haha Here's a Japanese person like that!
That's me.

[Anonymous No.15527216]

>>15526708
>>15526965
lazy faggots

[Anonymous No.15527319]

This thread is full of paid shills. Nipmoot is obviously getting paid by companies to allow this same spam shill shit every single day.

[Anonymous No.15527474]

>>15523145
>cheaper to buy & ship to US from Japan
lol

[Anonymous No.15527503]

>>15527474
炊飯器対応の変圧器を買わんといけんのやで
あと米クロネコがある地域じゃないと輸送の信用が出来ない

[Anonymous No.15527522]

>>15527503
アマゾンから注文したので、大丈夫と思う

[Anonymous No.15527531]

>>15523145
>Buying a $300 dollar unitasker as if its not a frivolous waste of money
>Needs to wait for it to be on sale

A fool and his money...

[Anonymous No.15527544]

>>15527522
>>15527503
っと、アメリカに変圧器は必要ない

[Anonymous No.15527566]

>>15527522
アマゾングローバルの商品が去年より増えてて驚いた
ってかコッチを買った方が良かったんじゃね?

[Anonymous No.15527572]

>>15527544
炊飯器やドライヤーだと即死したりコンセントが爆熱になるらしいけど
そこんとこは実際どうなん?

[Anonymous No.15527579]

>>15523145
the non IH one is like half the price, is it really so much better? and those things can't really do long grain like basmati.

[Anonymous No.15527593]

>>1552756
違うものから(圧力IH ですね)、知らない
でも、変圧器に関しては、君は正しかった。
それでも安いと思う

[Anonymous No.15527599]

>>15527566
>>15527593
ごめんw

[Anonymous No.15527605]

>>15527599
日本は子供の痴漢でいっぱいです

[Anonymous No.15527611]

>>15527605
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54897937?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Binforadio%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D
オストレリアやフランスや中国

[Anonymous No.15527694]

>>15526308
>>15527531
>>15525764
Quality rice cookers can be more versatile than a stove for cheaper.

These things can cook, bake, steam and slowcook. These things can even make yoghurt and porridge too. In a ceramic non-stick bowl. Rice cookers are godtier appliances and if you chose a good brand then it will last more than a decade of use.

[Anonymous No.15527719]

>>15527605
可愛い日本語ですね^^

[Anonymous No.15527919]

For what reason do you buy a rice cooker? Are you really just trying to remove the step where you have to shut off the stove after the timer goes off at the cost of hundreds of dollars?

[Anonymous No.15527939]

>>15527919
Think of it as your other self cooking the rice for you.

[Anonymous No.15527943]

>>15527939
Now I need to know if you can make Boston Dynamics Spot make rice for you.

[Anonymous No.15527949]

>>15527943
If I can get that for $200, I'm willing to pay it.

[Anonymous No.15527950]

>>15527919
>>15527694

[Anonymous No.15528154]

>>15527474
Then I'd need to memorize what moon rune buttons do what.

Much easier with English.

[Anonymous No.15528164]

>>15527579
>and those things can't really do long grain like basmati.
Anon, that's a good thing.

[Anonymous No.15528468]

>>15527474
it's 100v usa is 120v. you will need a pretty heavy duty transformer. it will run a lot hotter if you use it over here, and when that shit is trying to make stuff precise, its not good to run it hotter.

[Anonymous No.15528488]

>>15527319
Yes.
If I owned a company that sold expensive rice cookers, I’d definitely pay money to have people shill on a website full of brokefags and teenagers.

[Anonymous No.15528528]

>>15525936
You. Dumb. Nigger.
>do you even know how to cook rice in a pot?
Yes. And I know that nothing from a stovetop pot even approaches the rice from a high end rice maker.
People don’t buy these to eat poorfag rice; they’re for cooking actual good rice to perfection. Which you, faggot, can not do in your pot.
I don’t care how much you screech about how good you think you are at cooking. These devices make better rice than you ever will, and I enjoy eating better rice.

[Anonymous No.15528532]

>>15528468
Sadly, the US version of Zojirushi is so expensive that even if you buy a transformer with it, you can still save money by buying it from Japan.

[Anonymous No.15528550]

>>15528528
nothing from a stovetop pot even approaches the rice from a high end rice maker.
This is called placebo.

Also, rice cooker owners are some of the most delusional and insecure people in the cooking universe. You people can’t handle the banter and will chimp out over the littlest thing.

[Anonymous No.15528575]

>>15528528
>nothing from a stovetop pot even approaches the rice from a high end rice maker.
This is called placebo.

Also, rice cooker owners are some of the most delusional and insecure people in the cooking universe. You people can’t handle the banter and will chimp out over the littlest thing.

[Anonymous No.15528624]

>>15528575
>you people can't handle my blatant lies and it's your fault for making me lie because it upsets you so much
Wow ur so cool

[Anonymous No.15528659]

>>15523258
>Zoji shit lasts forever and is top tier in every category.

Only their electronics. Their thermos are shit. Paint peels. Their Mr Bento lunch jars are easily stained and if something breaks (like the hook), it is not covered under warranty.

[Anonymous No.15528667]

>>15528575
Pretty sure faggot such as yourself can't help but go into rice cooker threads and scream, "BUT YOU CAN COOK RICE IN A POT ON THE STOVETOP!" Happens every time.

[Anonymous No.15528684]

>>15528575
Nah, you’re just a fag having to cope with shitty rice. There’s a reason everyone in Japan owns one.

>You people can’t handle the banter
>I was only pretending to be retarded
K. Keep me posted.

[Anonymous No.15528689]

>>15528532
I don't think so, a 1500w step-down transformer is about $150.

So unless the rice cooker is $100 including tax and shipping, it's probably cheaper to get the US model.

[Anonymous No.15528715]

>>15528532
As the other anon pointed out, high wattage stepdown transformers are expensive. Rice cookers use 1000-1200w usually, so you can't get some dinky 500w stepdown transformer, it just won't be enough.

[Anonymous No.15528723]

>>15528624
>>15528667
>>15528684
Case in point.

[Anonymous No.15528740]

>>15528723
We get it, you're full of shit and simply want attention.

If you enjoy pretending to be retarded anon, you might just actually be retarded.

[Anonymous No.15528844]

>>15528689
If the price is less than $100, it is wiser to buy it in the USA, as you say.

The point I was trying to make was about the price difference.
There is such a difference in price for the same performance.
But there are problems
The only problem is understanding the Japanese language and the warranty of the product.
It's probably wise to buy in the USA for this reason.

[Anonymous No.15528863]

>>15528844
A similar larger model is $405 on amazon
NP-NVC18 instead of NP-NWC10

Making it cheaper than the Japanese version, $265 + $150 is $415.

So you can save $10 with the US version, and not have to learn moonrunes.

[Anonymous No.15528867]

>>15528689
>>15528715
The price of a transformer looks like this
The above items are likely to be purchased by Japanese who are moving to Japan for a short period of time.
The lower one is for long-term Japanese immigrants.

$101.58
$220.10

[Anonymous No.15528874]

>>15523145
Can you still return it?

You only need a pot to make rice.

[Anonymous No.15528890]

>>15528863
I couldn't find the product.
My mistake.

[Anonymous No.15528920]

>>15528874
It's amazon, so of course i could return it.

I wont though.

[Anonymous No.15529065]

>>15528528
>and I enjoy eating better rice
the issue with most of these retards is that they've simply never had good rice. They've eaten uncle bens and similar shit tier rice their entire lives.

[Anonymous No.15529074]

>>15529065
Another delusional consoomer justifying his consoomerism

[Anonymous No.15529081]

>>15529074

[Anonymous No.15529292]

>>15529074
if you can't tell the difference between cheap shitty rice, and nice good quality rice, then i feel sorry for you.

[Anonymous No.15529302]

>>15524810
does it take the full rice cooking time for one pancake?

[Anonymous No.15529323]

>>15523145
It's already back at $275.

[Anonymous No.15529340]

>>15529292
rice is rice, it won't come out differently if you know how to cook

[Anonymous No.15529351]

>>15529340
lmao, and that's how i know you're a retard.

If you can't tell the difference between jasmine and basmati, or worse, long-grain white indica/aromatic vs short-grain white japonica, you have zero reasons to be talking about rice at all, because you clearly don't know a fucking thing.

[Anonymous No.15529384]

>>15529351
I can tell the difference easily. Let me guess, you have ANOTHER attachment for your sink that washes it for you too? Has a different wash setting for each meme varietal and even has a self timer that shuts the water off so you can leave for the day and when you come home six hours later your rice is all washed for you?

Because youre SUCH a busy guy and are totally able to discern between very specific varietals of rice with minute differences and not just some tryhard weeb faggot?

[Anonymous No.15529387]

>>15529384
>I can tell the difference easily
>>15529340
>rice is rice
So which is it faggot

[Anonymous No.15529424]

Stop pretending that cooking rice is anything but a fucking chore, not having to watch the pot alone is worth buying a rice cooker. I enjoy actually cooking, something you whiney cunts bitching about appliances don't do.

[Anonymous No.15529466]

>>15529074
yes goyim mmmm yes delude yourself to justify giving us more money

[Anonymous No.15529473]

>>15529351
>>15529387
>thread about bullshit reddit appliances
Retard raging over two different people talking to him. Go back

[Anonymous No.15529482]

>>15529473
>replies to the specific post with a point about how "rice is rice" is fucking retarded
>the reply to my reply goes on to say they can easily tell the difference (answering as if they're the person being replied to, not as if they're a new poster)

tldr; fuck off retard, if that IS two people, the 2nd person is even more retarded than the first.

[Anonymous No.15529489]

>>15529482
>I don't know who I'm replying to so I assume wrong every time
This is embarrassing, retard.

[Anonymous No.15529490]

What are you people even crying about? $300 is what most of you spend on alcohol a month anyway - it’s not even a particularly large amount

[Anonymous No.15529499]

>>15529489
What?

If you read the 3 posts, in-order. It comes off entirely as 2 people, not 3 people.

If it IS 3 people, the 3rd person is a fucking moron for answering a question that was never posed to them in the first place.

[Anonymous No.15529504]

>>15529490
>DUDE you have GOT to see my new JAPANESE RICE COOKER
>IT'S SO KAWAII SUGOI

[Anonymous No.15529514]

>>15529504
The japs keep the good models to themselves, though

I still don’t get why you’re so upset about what is essentially a small purchase

[Anonymous No.15529515]

>>15529504
What makes you so upset about other people enjoying things in life?

[Anonymous No.15529532]

>>15529515
enjoying things =/= brain-dead consoomers

[Anonymous No.15529551]

>>15529532
Sure, but your whole argument is that it does nothing, which is objectively false, just because YOU don't care about it doesn't mean others don't.

It's a cooking appliance specifically for rice, if you don't need one, don't buy one.

[Anonymous No.15529671]

>>15529387
>can easily differentiate between long/short grain/basmati/jasmine
>don't care about minute differences of different varietals within these classifications

what don't you get?

[Anonymous No.15529685]

>>15529551
My argument is that it makes no difference if you know how to cook, just more consoomerism reddit appliances

[Anonymous No.15529705]

>>15529685
That's just blatantly false though.

Slower lower temp cooking is better, you CAN do it on the stove top if you're super autistic with your flame control and have a good earthenware pot or similar vessel to cook in. But regardless, a rice cooker is super easy, follow the instructions and press start.

The standard methods of cooking rice on the stove top are simply not going to compare to even a basic fuzzy logic rice cooker, let alone more advanced models that cater to specific types of rice, allowing to select the preferred doneness (hard, regular, soft), and even scorched or not.

Again, you CAN learn to do all of that on the stove top, but it's not as simple as pour water into pot with rice boil then set to low heat while covered for 10-20 minutes that i see being posted on here frequently as a way to make "perfect" rice every time.

[Anonymous No.15529710]

>>15529671
I mean, the point is saying "rice is rice" is just bullshit. Someone buying a $300 rice cooker obviously cares about the differences between two different kinds of rice. It's great if you don't care, but stop trying to pretend that's the ONLY position a person could ever take in life and that it's CRAZY someone could like rice more than you.

[Anonymous No.15529762]

>>15529351
I think he means there is no difference between the flavour of rice irrespective of how it was cooked. I.e. basmati will not taste better cooked in a rice cooker compared to a pan.

[Anonymous No.15529771]

if you scream about how you can cook just as good on the stovetop your rice is definitely shit

[Anonymous No.15529772]

>>15529705
>t. consoomer

[Anonymous No.15529783]

If you buy a 300 dollar rice cooker from Bezos you belong on plebbit

[Anonymous No.15529785]

>>15529685
fucking faggot
every fucking board if you say you bought anything little faggots like you come out by the dozens and >CONSUUUUM every fucking thread into oblivion
kill yourself

[Anonymous No.15529791]

>>15529762
Sure it will, lower slower cooking will bring out more flavor.

A quick cook on the stove simply wont compare to a zoji with umami settings.

[Anonymous No.15529809]

>>15529791
>lower slower cooking will bring out more flavor.
Is there scientific evidence for it?

[Anonymous No.15529827]

Bought this like a year ago and I never used it, still new in its box. Should I get a rice cooker to make rice pudding and take to work? What else can I cook?

[Anonymous No.15529833]

>>15529809
Yeah, it's why japanese rice cookers focus on taking their time to do it properly instead of just busting out rice in 20-30 minutes.

Cheap shitty $20-50 rice cookers most westerners buy WILL churn out white rice in under 30 minutes. Because they're shit and just cook it until it's soft instead of cooking it slowly and evenly so it brings out more flavor and has even doneness throughout the batch.

Most of the actual scientific shit on this stuff is done by Japanese and korean universities, so unless you know your moon runes, good luck.

[Anonymous No.15529848]

>>15529833
So, your line of thought is basically believing what the people who want to sell you a machine have to say about said machine?

[Anonymous No.15529863]

>>15529809
>scientific evidence
Are you really implying teams of autistic Japanese engineers tasked with making a machine that cooks rice as perfectly as possible have just spent the last 50 years jacking off to anime instead of doing their job?

[Anonymous No.15529866]

>>15529848
Impressive, very nice.

Let’s see your culinary qualifications.

[Anonymous No.15529871]

>>15529848
Believing people who eat rice with almost every meal.

The Japanese and Korean people overwhelmingly buy and use rice cookers, induction heating and pressure cooking models are pretty standard in any middle class Japanese or korean household.
Even poorer homes will generally have a fuzzy logic rice cooker that's probably a decade or two old. The only time you wont have a rice cooker is if you're genuinely destitute.

[Anonymous No.15529883]

>>15529340
t. never used a rice cooker

[Anonymous No.15529894]

>>15529866
Factories have none, and you're believing what they tell you.

>>15529871
Nah, bro. This is just you exercising your Asian fetiche. As a matter of fact, a lot of weebs do that when it comes to oriental things.

>ohmerged bro did you know the japs use a MACHINE to cook rice?? a MACHINE. i swear. its unbelievable. such high tech and kawaiiiiiiiii

[Anonymous No.15529910]

>>15529894
kek, you're clearly a moron.

Do you REALLY think there is some big rice industry that doesn't want Asians to know that they could be having the same exact rice in 20 minutes instead of 60+ minutes?

BIG rice is clearly an arm of the Israeli Jewish NWO.

[Anonymous No.15529924]

>>15529910
Mockery is often a sign of insecurity.

[Anonymous No.15529936]

>>15529924
i'm mocking you because you're genuinely trying to imply that all major Japanese and Korean rice cooker manufacturers have gotten together and simply decided that rice should take over an hour to cook for no actual beneficial reason instead of 20-30 minutes like you get with cheap western ones.

Clearly this cabal of rice cooker manufacturers needs to be stopped.

[Anonymous No.15529937]

>>15529894
japanese rice is fucking annoying to cook, especially as a housewife doing a bunch of things at once. there's a reason they started developing rice cookers in the fucking 1920s.

[Anonymous No.15529942]

>>15529710
Does jiro and his boys use a rice cooker? Thise niggers spend two years learning how to cook rice

[Anonymous No.15529948]

>>15529942
As i've said in previous posts in this thread, you CAN get autistically precise about your stove-top rice and churn out fantastic rice, even better than most rice cookers. But you spend literally years learning how to do it, and even then you can fuck it up super easily.

[Anonymous No.15529951]

>>15529936
>you're genuinely trying to imply that all major Japanese and Korean rice cooker manufacturers have gotten together and simply decided that rice should take over an hour to cook for no actual beneficial reason instead of 20-30 minutes like you get with cheap western ones.
No. I'm just saying manufacturers will always try to convince you that you need the product they are selling.

[Anonymous No.15529953]

>>15529936
>invent a problem
>sell the solution

dude you are an absolute drooling retard of a consoomer normie if you seriously think this isnt the standard operating procedure for most businesses. ESPECIALLY gadget makers.

[Anonymous No.15529958]

>>15529951
The fact that the half dozen to a dozen rice cooker manufacturers have ALL settled on about an hour to an hour 20 for medium/short grain white rice tells me there is a genuine reason for it.

>>15529953
Yeah but I can taste the difference in this case, all of you anti-rice cooker retards seem to think I've NEVER had good rice from a pot on a stove top, I have, it's just not as good as from a rice cooker, unless you're one of Jiro's apprentices, and you're not.

[Anonymous No.15529961]

Lets actually talk about ricer cookers

I've been looking at getting a smaller 3 cup IH unit from zojirushi for myself for my birthday, but I'm wondering if there's any other brand like tiger or panasonic that I could take a look at as well.
Also, do you think that the pressure cooking is really worth the extra premium? I'm sure its nice to have but I think I could get by without it as long as I can get an IH cooker that can keep the rice good longer than 12 hours

[Anonymous No.15529963]

>>15529953
You’re probably right.
The rice cooker cartel had duped the entire population of Japan, and now they got me too.

[Anonymous No.15529971]

>>15529937
I've heard about sushi makers spending years learning how to make rice, but I will never believe it takes more than a day or two to learn it. Sorry.

[Anonymous No.15529979]

>>15529963
>cartel
quit being hyperbolic. anybody who manufactures ANYTHING does this to move product

>youll never be able to imagine your life without our (insert product here) again!

Youve taken the bait hook, line and sinker. Youre a retard normie, its fine bro.

>>15529948
this is the only rational post by a ricefag ITT. thats fair. everybody else is brainwashed into thinking you NEED this product in spite of the fact that autistic nips have been cranking this shit out for centuries

[Anonymous No.15529981]

If you have one of those shitty little pot with a switch cookers you should really consider getting even a basic micom cooker
the difference will amaze you

[Anonymous No.15529991]

>>15529971
Then you probably have a shit palate anyway and you don't give a fuck about good rice in the first place.

[Anonymous No.15530005]

>be haffu
>eat japanese food almost exclusively from birth
>cook 3 cups of rice every day in my rice cooker in the morning to last me all day
>faggots ITT want me to deal with doing that for every single meal
fuck that.

[Anonymous No.15530021]

>>15530005
>make three cups in AM
>eat
>reheat rest later as needed

???

[Anonymous No.15530032]

>>15523145
OP here

Glad I ordered when I did.

Went back up to $275, then sold out.

[Anonymous No.15530046]

>>15530021
>reheat rest later as needed
Ew. Leftover rice should be used for fried rice only.

The keep-warm function exists for a reason.

[Anonymous No.15530049]

>>15529979
Here's how I see it
the really cheap and shitty $20 ones are worse than cooking it on a stove, but technically more convenient because you dont have to babysit a pot
Going up to a micom model, even one from an american brand like aroma is a definite step up from that, but aroma is like the top tier of mediocre models. I have one right now and there are a few issues I have with it
The keep warm function is only 12 hours, and the rice gets really shitty and crusty, but also if I dont scrunch it up to the side of the pot it will get mushy because water pools down into the pot from the garbage non-removable lid

To me, cooking rice is a chore that I don't care to engage in when I could be cooking the rest of my meal.
I'm willing to spend more to get a better result from that with more features, most people are.
Personally, I'm willing to shell out an induction heating model on top of micom because they cook more evenly and I'm sick of getting scorched rice on the bottom of my pot.
I also want to be able to cook larger batches of rice, and since induction heating heats the whole pot, the stuff at the top will be as done as the rice at the bottom.

Also I want to really really want to reiterate that cooking rice FUCKING SUCKS and is a boring chore

[Anonymous No.15530070]

I'm tempted to get this one
I've never had to make more than 1 1/2 cups of uncooked rice at a time since I'm not cooking for a family, and the lower price is very appealing

[Anonymous No.15530078]

>>15529894
The factories don’t have any, because they manufacture the cookers, not design them.

Let’s see your culinary qualifications

[Anonymous No.15530085]

>>15530070
Zoji 3 cups are great for single life, or you + a partner.

[Anonymous No.15530090]

>>15530085
sounds good then
hopefully it stays in stock for the next few months, and at around this price

[Anonymous No.15530091]

>>15530070
Got mine about 3 weeks ago for 300 trudobux. It’s pretty neat, but as I mentioned earlier I prefer the basmati I make in a pot over how it turns out in the machine. Short grain is great though.

[Anonymous No.15530093]

>>15530070
$215 is about as cheap as it has been since July.

[Anonymous No.15530099]

>>15529961
Tiger, Panasonic, and Zoji are basically the “big 3” in Japan.
In terms of build quality and performance, they’re all comparable. It just depends on which you prefer, or if one has a feature you want that the others don’t.
You can’t go wrong buying any of those 3 brands.

>do you think that the pressure cooking is really worth the extra premium?
It makes a difference, but “worth it” is relative to your financial situation; it wasn’t until a bit over a year ago I upgraded to an IH/pressure model. It does gives the rice a better texture, but it’s more of icing on the cake; my old one produced amazing rice. This just makes it slightly more amazing.

Personally I think heating element -> IH is a much more noticeable jump than IH -> IH/pressure. But if you have extra money laying around and eat a ton of rice, no reason not to.

[Anonymous No.15530100]

>>15530091
Yeah I only eat short and medium grain japonica so I think this will be good for me
I have to wonder what advantages you get by going to a pressure cooker model though, but that'll have to wait until i can afford to REALLY indulge in ricetism

[Anonymous No.15530107]

>>15530091
>basmati
Make sure you're using the right settings for your model.

But yeah, they're made for Japanese rice, they do other rice too, but not nearly as well.

[Anonymous No.15530109]

>>15530099
That's about what I thought
I think for now I'll be good going from my shitty little Aroma "professional plus" to this
Thanks for the advice! I really appreciate it.

[Anonymous No.15530119]

>>15530100
If you have a pressure cooker around, try making rice in it according to a recipe a couple of times and see if you really like it that much over regular/pan rice. I have 4 pressure cookers which I use to make Pilafs and such so I didn’t bother with the pressure models (Cuckoo makes a pretty good pressure one apparently)

[Anonymous No.15530129]

>>15529979
>everybody else is brainwashed into thinking you NEED this product in spite of the fact that autistic nips have been cranking this shit out for centuries
Literally nobody in Japan cooks rice without one except for super-traditional restaurants who have a guy who basically does nothing else.
Because they also know that you aren’t going to make it as well as the machine can unless you basically do it for a living, and those guys use traditional iron or stone pots that cost more than the rice cookers you’re bitching about.

[Anonymous No.15530138]

>>15530090
>and at around this price
I wouldn't hold my breath, it's been closer to $250 lately.

[Anonymous No.15530141]

This thing has served me well for 2 years now but I'm getting sick of mushy rice after leaving it on keep warm
>>15530119
I have 3 pressure cookers but I've never really used them for rice, they all seemed a bit too big
My mom's got a big ass instant pot that I've been curious about using to cook rice in though, so I guess I could try making it in that, but I think I'd have to make a much larger batch than I'm used to, and I'm hesitant to use a lot of rice at once for an experiment.

[Anonymous No.15530146]

>>15530107
Yes yes I followed the instructions, I just prefer the version I’ve been cooking in a pot since forever. Neat machine though, sings when it’s done

[Anonymous No.15530150]

>>15530141
I've also never used a single setting on it other than white rice and sushi rice and quite frankly I'm convinced that the sushi rice setting is just complete placebo for normies because I didn't notice a difference between the two

[Anonymous No.15530151]

>>15530141
instant pots make pretty shit rice, even basic micom rice cookers will do better.

[Anonymous No.15530157]

>>15523145
What a waste of money.

[Anonymous No.15530163]

>>15530021
why are you here if you've clearly never eaten rice before?

[Anonymous No.15530167]

>>15530151
sad to hear
I checked just one cookbook because I really enjoy Nami's recipes, and she has a page on it but it looks like a way bigger pain in the ass than just getting a zoji and pressing the go button
https://www.justonecookbook.com/instant-pot-rice/

[Anonymous No.15530169]

>>15530150
Sushi rice setting on a rice cooker actually cooks it a bit less (and you're supposed to use less water) because it's supposed to be vinegared afterward so you add moisture.

"Sushi" rice is just short/medium grain japonica that's been cooked a bit less and vinegared, it's not some specific KIND of rice.

[Anonymous No.15530177]

>>15523145
Why do these machines have childish girlish tunes?

Can they be opted out?

[Anonymous No.15530180]

Perfect, I've got a fuzzy logic model but its not keeping rice as long as it used to. It gets a hard crust on top after just a day.
Is it because of the lid? is moisture leaking out too fast?
Does anyone know?

[Anonymous No.15530181]

>>15530177
You can change the alarms to standard beeps or silent.

[Anonymous No.15530185]

>>15530169
Yeah I know what sushi rice is but I guess it never really occurred to me you'd prepare it slightly differently since I've never made my own. Thanks for teaching me that, but I'm also not convinced that Aroma's is worth using lol

[Anonymous No.15530189]

>>15530180
might have some o-ring gasket type thing that failed and is letting moisture out.

Also might need cleaning under the lid if your model has a removable inner lid.

[Anonymous No.15530205]

But yeah my Aroma has served me faithfully if not perfectly but I wanna get out of this relationship before the non-removable, uncleanable lid starts getting Funky. So the NP-GBC05XT it is. It'd also be nice to just always have good, not mushy or crunchy dry rice on hand whenever I want.

[Anonymous No.15530228]

>>15530150
>I'm convinced that the sushi rice setting is just complete placebo for normies
Depending on how good the machine is, it may be. Kinda like blenders with the 50 buttons.
Usually, a ‘sushi’ setting should give you a shorter cook time (and you use a bit less water) so it will absorb the vinegar more easily

[Anonymous No.15530230]

Also veering off into discussion of rice.
The only brand I have that I really enjoy available to me locally is Nishiki medium grain from California and its really good, but I've been wanting to branch out into different varieties. What brands/varietals do you prefer?
Also I'll admit that I don't wash the rice because it says its musenmai. I've prepared it "the traditional way" by rinsing, soaking, etc. and I noticed no real difference but its entirely possible its just because my rice cooker is dogshit.

[Anonymous No.15530246]

>>15530230
I usually get some Koshihikari, i'm not autistic on the specific brand, but i know in japan people will specifically buy a certain brand over another even if they're both the same breed.

I've thought about importing some Japanese rice, but I don't know enough about Japanese rice to confidently import something worthwhile (and without spending out the ass for it)

[Anonymous No.15530265]

>>15530246
Personally I wouldn't really import rice, I'd rather buy something grown in California just because there are less steps between the farm and me. Also there are homegrown American varietals of japonica like koshi grown in the states, and unless you have the good fortune to live near a mitsuwa like I do I don't think buying Japanese imported stuff is going to be worth it at all pricewise

[Anonymous No.15530296]

>>15530230
Koshihikari short grain is my go-to for basically everything.
Mixed rice dishes, sushi, plain rice, etc.
There is some god-tier koshihikari that comes out of California, from farms owned by Japanese companies which also do their own milling.
Particularly, my personal favorite is “Tamaki Gold”, but it’s expensive (by rice standards).
“Shirakiku Koshihikari” is also amazing, and a bit less pricey.
Both are fairly easy to find at Asian stores, and if you don’t have one they’re are also on Amazon

[Anonymous No.15530356]

>>15530246
If you’re a burgerbro, I can pretty much guarantee you aren’t gonna find imported Japanese rice better than what we get out of California.
The ones listed in >>15530296 would already be considered very premium in Japan, and the companies there which offer even better rice don’t bother with export because they already move their entire crop domestically. No reason to deal with extra paperwork.

Unfortunately the handful of Japanese rice companies that *do* export widely are average at best, and try to sell in other countries at a premium price because “genuine Japanese rice”.

[Anonymous No.15530452]

>>15530356
Yup, that's what i've heard and why i'm hesitant to actually import anything.

[Anonymous No.15530477]

>>15530296
Tamaki gold is trash. Try shopping at a japanese food store next time instead of hmart.

[Anonymous No.15530537]

>>15523145
I use an instant pot and it works great. Come at me, I worked in a Japanese restaurant for 6 years.

[Anonymous No.15530542]

>>15530537
What country was this "Japanese" restaurant located in?

[Anonymous No.15530569]

>>15524652
>white boy
every fucking asian family has a rice cooker you dummy, it's a bog standard appliance

[Anonymous No.15530575]

>>15530542
America, owned and managed by Japanese dudes. They didn't use instant pots. I do though, and as long as the rice is the good shit I really don't think anybody but the pickiest would tell the difference, and it takes 1/3-1/2 the time

[Anonymous No.15530586]

>>15530575
Trust me, if you eat rice daily from a high end rice cooker with good quality rice, that same quality rice from an instant pot is GOING to be noticeably different.

[Anonymous No.15530624]

>>15527216
All technology is a "crutch" faggot. You use shit every single day because the alternatives take more time and energy.
You're on a fucking website for god's sake.

[Anonymous No.15530631]

>>15530586
but I did for 6 years

[Anonymous No.15530638]

Zoji-JEW-si rice cookers BTFO. Bow to the master rice cooker.

[Anonymous No.15530652]

>>15530631
Then you just don't give a shit

If you genuinely CAN'T tell a difference, you've got something wrong with you.

Instant pot rice has horrible doneness consistency and uneven texture throughout.

[Anonymous No.15530664]

>>15530638
I had the Zojirushi version of that rice cooker in the 90's and early 2000s.

[Anonymous No.15530666]

>>15530477
>Tamaki gold is trash
[citation needed]
>Try shopping at a japanese food store
I do. That’s where I buy it. It’s literally produced by a Japanese company.
Instead of just talking contrarian shit, why not post a pic of your rice so I’ll know what to ask for next time?

[Anonymous No.15530676]

>>15530666
Satan laying down truths

[Anonymous No.15530698]

>>15530575
>America, owned and managed by Japanese dudes
Did they bother with making nice rice?
Most Japanese places in the US don’t waste the money/effort on serving fantastic rice, since most Americans aren’t gonna give a shit and dump soy sauce all over it anyway.
I’ve seen quite a few who do make good rice for their sushi, but they have separate cheap rice used for bowls of rice.

[Anonymous No.15530706]

>>15530698
Good god yes. It's a bougie place in west coast metropolitan city

[Anonymous No.15530737]

>>15530638
Before my company recalled me because chinkflu, the highest-end and most expensive rice cooker in all the nice stores was a new tiger model.
It supposedly replicates cooking rice in a traditional heavy iron pot outdoors over an open fire.
Here’s part of the pamphlet I grabbed for it

[Anonymous No.15530742]

>>15530737
Is that even valuable though? I mean at this point everybody eating rice has been eating rice cooker rice for several decades. Emulating the iron pot seems pointless.

[Anonymous No.15530745]

>>15523145
Based, mine really frees up a space on the stove, should have got one sooner.

[Anonymous No.15530746]

>>15530737
And a bit more

[Anonymous No.15530752]

>>15530737
Yup, fire rice cookers, all the big manufacturers are doing those now.

Expensive as fuck though, the zoji one is like $650 for a 5 cup.

[Anonymous No.15530768]

>>15530706
Fair enough; by “most” I meant to exclude the really expensive places.
Do you happen to remember what brand they used?

[Anonymous No.15530773]

>>15530752
>18.5lbs

that's a heavy motherfucker, the 5.5cup in the OP is only 9lbs.

[Anonymous No.15530783]

>>15530768
Of rice cooker? Zojirushi for the sushi rice, larger volume aromas for the general purpose and warming. Honestly those things aren't really all that great for restaurant purposes though. The plastic hinges that they all have do not really stand up to daily cook abuse.

[Anonymous No.15530787]

>>15530783
I think he was talking about the rice itself, not the cookers.

[Anonymous No.15530797]

>>15530787
Calrose niko niko for the general purpose, they changed the sushi brands and I don't remember anyway, don't read moon.

[Anonymous No.15530804]

>>15527949
>>15527943
Can you fuck spot?

[Anonymous No.15530851]

>>15530742
>Emulating the iron pot seems pointless.
Believe it or not, that’s actually the endgame. It’s the final destination and holy grail of rice cookers. That’s why Tiger, Zoji, and Panasonic have all introduced it in their top models.

Japanese actually have sort of a unified, hivemind agreed-upon definition of the gold standard of rice-making. i.e. the one single best cooking method which produces the best rice; a heavy iron pot, topped with a heavy lid made of thick wood, cooked over an open fire, in a long process with some insanely-experienced expert in the method making almost constant adjustments to the fire by adjusting the wood.

That’s literally what Japanese rice cookers have been advancing toward since they moved from simple electric pot to the computerized logic.
The fuzzy-logic uses dynamic algorithms to replicate an autistic OCD person adjusting heat on the fly, based on rice temp, ambient temp outside the rice maker, humidity, etc.
Then came IH, which allows thinner metal pots to have even heating much closer to a thick one, instead of the heat being concentrated at the bottom.
Pressure came next, which acts like the “heavy lid”. That’s why they don’t use high pressure like a pressure cooker, just moderately elevated.

So the current next step is using multiple induction coils to replicate the nuances of an actual burning fire. So the models which use it are currently unaffordable for most Japanese, and basically unavailable outside there. But like the other stuff, the tech will find its way into cheaper models with time.

[Anonymous No.15530861]

>>15530851
I mean I get the Japanese mindset there, but I swear to god I want to see a double blind taste test before I'm buying into them even being able to tell the difference.

[Anonymous No.15530864]

>>15530851
Yup, once I can buy one in the US, with English menus and buttons for under $450 I'll probably bite.

[Anonymous No.15530873]

>>15530864
>english menus and buttons
I'm sure you can learn to use the two buttons that you need. Or buy a label maker.

[Anonymous No.15530881]

>>15530873
Why bother?

It'd run me $700+ just to import one, another $100+ for a step-down transformer, and then I'll still need to memorize some moon runes, especially since I do GABA rice and porridge on occasion, so i need to know more than just "white rice" and "start"

[Anonymous No.15530899]

>>15530881
I mean if the cost is not the issue to you then the moon seems like an incredibly minor concern, but you do you I guess

[Anonymous No.15530906]

>>15530899
I said i'd spend $450.

That doesn't mean I want to spend $800+

[Anonymous No.15530982]

Does it steam rice?

[Anonymous No.15531018]

>>15530737
The best part is that the cheapest version of this model is about $800 in Japan..
But Tiger jacks that up to about $2000for a 220v version for Koreans.

This was in a tax-free shop for foreigners.

[Anonymous No.15531039]

>>15530899
>if the cost is not the issue
>>15530864
>for under $450 I'll probably bite
Reading comprehension bud.
He said for UNDER $450 and you take that to mean price isn't an issue and suggest he spends basically 2x as much?

[Anonymous No.15531325]

Looks good, too bad we can only get the older models in europe. They're really hard to get.

[Anonymous No.15531340]

>>15531325
You could import korean models if you wanted to since they all use 220V like in Europe.

But yeah, the domestic Japanese models, and the US import models aren't readily available in Europe due to the voltage difference.

[Anonymous No.15531397]

>>15531325
I’m an unashamed Zojifag, but I still wouldn’t bother with the overpriced & obsolete ones in Europe. They don’t even have an IH one available.

Your best bets seem to be YumAsia and Cuckoo; they at least have mostly current tech and the prices are reasonable.
I don’t know shit about YumAsia beyond what’s on their website, but I do know that cuckoo is supposedly one of the best non-Japanese brands for rice maker.

[Anonymous No.15531408]

>>15525446
rice laced with copium

[Anonymous No.15531608]

>>15531397
Yup, or as the other anon said, import a korean market model zoji. Though they'd be expensive as hell.

[Anonymous No.15531848]

>>15531408
>love rice
>buy expensive rice maker
>resulting rice isn’t any better than what I get from my stovetop Walmart pot
>_________________?
Your fantasy/projection:
>seethe and cope because buyers remorse and pretend it was worth it on the internet even though it wasn’t because the rice is the same but I’ll look retarded if I admit that, so I gotta keep up appearances!
Reality:
>Return that shit for a refund

That’s what people actually do with items that aren’t game consoles.

[Anonymous No.15531940]

Best thing to do with it is once your rice is cooked use a metal spoon or fork to scrape the rice off the bottom of the pot.

[Anonymous No.15531963]

>>15531940

[Anonymous No.15532520]

>>15531848
yeah, i upgraded from a fuzzy logic rice cooker and could've easily returned the IH one I bought last year if I didn't like it, but it's a decent improvement so I saw no problem keeping it.

[Anonymous No.15533609]

>>15530864
I think this is the next model to be launched in the US.

KIWAME-DAKI,GOUEN-GAMA
https://www.zojirushi.co.jp/syohin/ricecooker/nwjw/

I believe that the top of the line models are too afraid to sell in the US because of the unconditional refund policy.

[Anonymous No.15533616]

ITT: cooklets who need an appliance to the most basic of kitchen tasks for them

[Anonymous No.15533977]

Just buy a Xiaomi IH rice cooker you plebs. The chinks literally stole zoji designs and made a better one.

[Anonymous No.15534118]

>>15533977
Design and coordination programmes are easy to steal
The difficulty is the quality of the pot and the induction.
Panasonic has the best technology for induction
Mitsubishi, Hitachi and Toshiba technologies are the next most prominent

But such technology is easily beaten by low prices...
In recent years, Iris-Oyama has succeeded in selling its products at low prices in Japan.
The Pennsylvania plant was added at the end of last year (as well as plants in Wisconsin, Texas and Arizona).
https://www.irisohyama.co.jp/news/2020/?date=1125
We may soon be able to buy rice cookers from Iris-Oyama in the USA.

[Anonymous No.15534122]

>>15533977
>buy cheap chink knockoff heating unit
nah I'd like to keep my house thanks

[Anonymous No.15534142]

>>15523589
what the fuck, where did you get that graph?

[Anonymous No.15534165]

>>15525927
based

[Anonymous No.15534202]

>>15534142
https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B00VAG84O2

[Anonymous No.15534204]

>>15534202
Noted, thank you anon.

[Anonymous No.15534240]

>>15530851
How much of a difference does it actually make? Would a normal person be able to tell the difference between a cheap zojirushi and the iron pot model, or between OP's and the iron pot model, or do you have to be some kind of rice nerd to actually tell the difference?