Spec me a rice cooker
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Caporegime
This is the one I picked up in Singapore. Perfect for 1 to 2 persons. 3 people would be fine but 4 is pushing it. Rolls Royce of rice cookers, their smallest size version.
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Zojirushi NS-LAQ05 fuzzy logic rice cooker
Zojirushi’s smallest capacity cooker – functional, clean and durable. – supplied with detachable UK 3 pin plug and power cord…
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Caporegime
No fuzzy logic though, so it’s a less smart rice cooker.
I recommend whatever brand you get, get one with fuzzy logic.
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I bet this is some kit, £85 for a rice cooker but I bet you'd likely end up using it regularly if you're spending that much on itThis is the one I picked up in Singapore. Perfect for 1 to 2 persons. 3 people would be fine but 4 is pushing it. Rolls Royce of rice cookers, their smallest size version.
Zojirushi NS-LAQ05 fuzzy logic rice cooker
Zojirushi’s smallest capacity cooker – functional, clean and durable. – supplied with detachable UK 3 pin plug and power cord…
Caporegime
£85 is cheap for this rice cooker, and IMO, from someone who has eaten rice everyday pretty much for 4 decades, it makes the best rice I’ve had. I have 2 rice cookers in the house, had several before, this brand is the best one yet.
Most cheap, under £50 rice cookers are “dumb”, it has a heat plate and a single sensor that triggers the off switch when it goes above 100c. It basically heat it full blast and then stops. Fuzzy logic cooks rice differently, it allows for soak time, heating in a more gradual way, after cooking absorption time, it even knows if it has not enough water somehow or too much. It has programmed settings for white rice, sushi rice and different grains of rice.
A good rice cooker is so worth it, I personally rather spend £200 on a rice cooker and £50 on a microwave than the other way round. I mean you can spend £100 on a toaster so a rice cooker is a bargain really.
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Dammit now I want this rice cooker, I'm English but we end up having rice about 4 times a week just for ease plus I've got 2 kids that go nuts for it. Get what you mean on the microwave pricing too
Edit just seen your link price! £200?! But still you'd kinda sell it very well
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This one?..
Or the one you linked for £200?
Caporegime
I got the one i linked to, and in the photo.
But the one you linked to also should work, the important thing is it has fuzzy logic. Zojirushi is just a premium brand for rice cooker, it’s a bit like Borsch for white goods or perhaps more closer, LG with OLED vs other brands also with OLED or other brands with TN panel.
Someone who doesn’t know any better would be happy with the TN panel, but once you tried both, you would go OLED everytime.
Caporegime
Yeah, it was the reason i got it in Singapore, it‘s so much cheaper there! When i got it the exchange rate was even better than now, i paid about £75. Perk of being a former British colony…same 230v appliance and the same plugs!
This is the one I have, works fine. Cooks rice perfectly everytime. Use it 2-4 times a week for about a year now.
no regrets
Caporegime
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Caporegime
Buying the 30 quid model I linked now to prove a point.
Get some Mai Thai rice in there and jobs a goodin
Nobody will deny that it will make rice, so does a saucepan, but like i said…TN vs OLED.
Not sure what point you are trying to prove…I’ve had cheap rice cookers too For years.
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It’s a bloody rice cooker! Why does it need fuzzy logic?It either cooks the rice correctly, or it doesn’t
I have a basic mechanical rice cooker which is electrically a rearranged kettle. Goes kerchunk at a predecided temperature
For whatever reason giving a rice cooker some conditional code gets to be called fuzzy logic and it has potential to try better settings for a specific outcome vs what you've put in than a basic cooker.
Haven't seen a rice place using one.
Sushi place I go past has two dumb as bricks Buffalo rice cookers. Malay restaurant also has a dumb large capacity rice cooker.
I reckon fuzzy logic attempts to cover weird stuff that consumers do and commercial users that consistently measure correctly and cook one type of rice one way forever have no need of it.
Commercial rice cookers: https://www.catering-appliance.com/rice-cookers all big and dumb
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