Review on 🍚 Premium White Zojirushi Neuro Fuzzy Rice Cooker 5.5-Cup: High-Performance Cooking at Its Finest by Jeffrey Gallagher

Well, I've been living in Japan for over 10 years and going there for over 30 years, so I used to eat a lot of rice. To be honest, I'm not a fan of rice at all. As a former baker I prefer bread and all along I always thought rice is rice, know what I mean? I've been using a cheap rice cooker/steamer/ since I moved back to the US about five years ago. Costco yogurt maker. He did his job and cooked the rice fairly adequately. However, it passed away last year and my wife asked me to buy a good quality rice cooker to replace it. While I'm a curmudgeon at heart, I'm also a big wimp, so after spending a few hours online looking at rice cookers in both English and Japanese, we settled on a 5.5-cup model of this model . It lacks all the bells and whistles of a high-end Suihanka, but has good reviews, cutting-edge technology and design cues for good rice making, and Zojirushi is one of the most trusted brands in Japan. As much as I'd love to believe my wife was too picky about rice (typical man?), I'm not too proud to admit when I'm wrong. How wrong I was - the rice this appliance cooks is truly phenomenal! While the rice in the previous cooker had soft and hard spots — some of the rice was overcooked and some undercooked — the rice has this smooth texture. Each grain is shiny and chewy, with just the right amount of stickiness. Whether you want to cook any of the popular Japanese dishes, from unpretentious onigiri (rice balls) to sushi, everything tastes better with rice from this cooker. I really don't understand how there can be such an immediate, noticeable difference in the quality of cooked rice. We use the same brand of rice every time and my wife doesn't even use any of the device's "fancy" features - she just presses "fast rice". Almost two hundred dollars may seem like an exorbitant amount. on such a versatile pony machine (especially since our bread maker is only about $50). But rest assured, it's not wasted money. I cannot recommend this rice cooker enough.