This product rates five stars because it does what it is supposed to: turn out perfectly cooked rice as and when you want it, every time you use it. The non-stick bowl is easy to clean, and the inner lid, while not non-stick, at least pops out easily and gets clean with a little elbow grease, although I would highly recommend spraying it with non-stick spray before cooking anything sticky (like oatmeal). I will say, however, that after reading the reviews here I was expecting the rice this cooker produced to be a revelation. And, in fact, the rice this cooker makes tastes... like rice. Exactly the same as properly cooked rice on the stove top. It's that "properly cooked" part that is the beauty of using a rice maker. No more forgetting the rice is on the stove and boiling the water out or getting the timing wrong. With a rice cooker you add the desired quantity of rice, the appropriate amount of water for the type of rice and the texture you want, press a button and you get perfect rice without ever having to worry about it overcooking. When the water is gone the machine switches automatically to "keep warm" mode and will keep the rice perfectly warm and fluffy for hours. Or you can reheat it if you need it just-finished hot. You can get the same safety zone by baking your rice in the oven, but what a waste of energy. A rice machine takes up less space than a food processor, doesn't heat up the kitchen and uses far less engergy than the oven. So it's a worthwhile investment if you like rice. The real question is whether you need to spend the extra C-note to get a neuro fuzzy cooker.
On the plus side, the neuro fuzzy cooker has two great features a plain-old on/off button cooker doesn't: 1) a timer, so you can put in your non-perishable oatmeal ingredients before you go to bed and wake up to a hot breakfast, or put your rice in the cooker before you start dinner and it will have the rice ready when you tell it to; and 2) settings for different varieties and textures of rice -- brown rice, mixed rice, white rice, porridge, etc. A large number of people have raved about all you can do with a neuro fuzzy cooker if you get "The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook" and, it's true, there are uses you can make out of a neuro fuzzy cooker that you can't get from an on/off style cooker. Turns out, though, that the uses I wanted from my rice cooker (being able to make simple, yet complete, healthy dinners in it) can only be made (per the author) in an on/off style cooker, which has a steaming basket over the rice bowl. So you put rice in the bottom, fish and vegetables or whatever in the top, and a full meal is made in the time it takes to cook rice. On/off cookers don't have a timer, so you can't set a time for the food to be done, but it's not like you can leave fish or milk or other perishable foods alone in the cooker overnight or all day, anyway. And the on/off cookers have a "keep warm" button so you can put your rice in to cook before you go to the gym and still have rice waiting when you get home. It won't be just-cooked fresh, but can you really tell the difference between just-cooked and kept-warm rice? The neuro fuzzy cooker is perfect if you eat a lot of brown rice or make a lot of porridge, but if you just want perfectly cooked rice every time, or just simple meals of rice, veggies and a maybe a little chicken or fish, save yourself some money and get an on/off cooker. Either way, though, a rice cooker will save you ever having to wait for the rice or having to eat overly mushy or undercooked rice. And this cooker, which is perfect for anywhere from a single serving (use your own measuring cups, the minimum this cooker can measure with its pre-marked lines and cup serves two heartily), to enough rice for side servings for up to a dozen people, does the job supremely well.Get more detail about Zojirushi NS-ZCC10 5-1/2-Cup Neuro Fuzzy Rice Cooker and Warmer, Premium White.
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